Said to be in an “exceptional state of preservation,” the sword bears a silver-and-gilt hilt and runic inscriptions along the ...

He also ordered many new ships to be built to protect his kingdom from invasion ... in the early Anglo-Saxon period. Bede tells us, for example, about terrible famines that hit England, and ...

The Guardian reports that a sword dated to the sixth century has been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in southeastern ...

A History of the Beginnings of England,’ historian Marc Morris recounts the turbulent era between the abandonment of Britain ...

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This book examines a wide range of sources (legal and historiographical as well as literary) in order to reveal a 'social construction' of Anglo-Saxon England that held a significant place in the ...

(CNN) — He’s the mythical Celtic warlord who held out against the Anglo Saxon invasion of what would come to be called England. His right-hand man was a wizard, he was handed his famous sword ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

Only one other Anglo-Saxon temple or cult site has previously been found in England The discovery of a 1,400-year-old "possible temple" near Sutton Hoo is the latest in a series of archaeological ...

The Church of England is seeking a new home for the remains of an Anglo-Saxon saint who was present at the start of Christianity in England. St Eanswythe was the granddaughter of Ethelbert ...