A storyteller played music on a small harp or a lyre to accompany their stories and poems. Anglo-Saxon jewellers made brooches, beads and gold ornaments. At first, their artwork was pagan ...
In the "Ecclesiastical History of the English People," the Venerable Bede wrote that Redwald, King of East Anglia starting ...
"I turned it over and wiped my thumb across it and I saw the Saltire-type of design and I knew instantly it was Viking." [SPACE] In 2014, a bit of silver in a Scottish field caught the eye of amateur ...
But King Offa still overshadows all, having dominated the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms for the last decades of the 8th century and having bequeathed us, most probably, the eponymous dyke.
Free play sessions will be held at one of the country's most famous Anglo-Saxon archaeological sites. From March, the National Trust is opening up its Sutton Hoo site, near Woodbridge, in Suffolk ...
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The discovery not only sheds light on the final Anglo-Saxon king, it also provides a rare window into a key turning point in history for England, researchers said. Bosham is named on the Bayeux ...