Although we call the language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons “Old English,” English speakers today won’t find much in common between it and the language we have now. More than 1000 years ago ...
New people have come to settle here, these are the Anglo-Saxons. They told some of the very first English stories. Storyteller: There once was a king called Hrothgar, who ruled a land far away ...
Ohlgren examines ten visual images from early medieval English manuscripts and Anglo-Viking culture to analyze the reciprocal relationships between texts, images, and culture. A new edition of Alan ...
But the early Anglo-Saxons were not Christians ... when he was just seven years old. Bede wrote a book called 'A History of the English Church and People' in AD730. This was the story of the ...
The Anglo-Saxons "made the whole thing from scratch" rather than reuse an old coin, says an expert. Archaeologists found the remains of a ditch, indicating where Oxford's defences originally stood.
One of King Harold's manors appears twice in the famous Bayeux Tapestry, but only 948 years later have researchers finally identified the building's remains.
It is one of the largest Anglo-Saxon burial grounds ever uncovered in Britain An Anglo-Saxon burial ground with 138 graves found along the route of HS2 is one of the largest ever uncovered in the ...
Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo ... Saxons from the fifth and sixth centuries as they moved to Britain from northern continental Europe. When a roughly 1,500-year-old ...