A strong and successful leader became 'cyning', the Anglo-Saxon word for 'king'. Each king ruled a kingdom and led a small army. The Anglo-Saxon kings were from ruling families who passed ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly vegetarian before the Vikings settled, according to new studies. Cambridge University researchers analysed more than 2,000 skeletons and found elites ate no more meat ...

Fragments of a helmet recovered from the Sutton Hoo ship burial show that early-medieval metalwork could be decorative and ...

Athelstan Museum The museum recently bought a coin from the reign of King Athelstan There are also Anglo-Saxon coins, archaeological artefacts and metal detecting finds. These range from an ...

Through his work, he sought to promote the study of the old vernacular, against the trend of scholarly apathy towards Anglo-Saxon literature. One of his greatest contributions ... although Thorpe ...

Aethelbert Name of a king. Anglo-Saxon Baby Names, English Baby Names Aethelflaed Sister of King Edward. Anglo-Saxon Baby Names Aethelfrith Name of a king. Anglo-Saxon Baby Names ...

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James Norton gave insight into the finer points of an actor's contract when he revealed why he took the part of King Harold ...

This 1930 volume contains the original texts, with translations and commentaries, of the great majority of surviving Anglo-Saxon wills drawn up in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The documents are ...