‘Anglo-Saxon’ is a term with a long and nuanced history. This study assesses where the word itself comes from, why it has been felt appropriate to separate the pre-Conquest epoch from later English ...

The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD ...

An unusual piece of Anglo-Saxon jewelry — a plagiarized pendant rife with typos — that was discovered by a metal detectorist ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "unique" ancient Roman drinking vessel mysteriously embedded in an Anglo-Saxon burial from the early 6th century A.D. The burial is one of 49 that were interred ...

including History and English Literature, and replacing it with the more favoured 'Early Medieval English.' Academics have ...

James Vukmirovic took a trip to see a distillery which mixes Anglo Saxon mythology with the fruits of the local area to create a truly unique whisky.

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...

Anglo Saxon weight sets often feature pre-Saxon coins ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums and members of the public.

Let us now return To English history And find out what becomes Of the Anglo-Saxon dynasty. Edward the Confessor dies But sadly leaves no heir Three men want to take his crown Of them let’s be aware.