Image caption, The weregild payable for the murder of an Anglo-Saxon thane (noble) was 6,000 pennies. The weregild for a king was 90,000! The Saxons had a system called 'weregild', which meant ...

When a roughly 1,500-year-old sword is described as still being in the “top echelons of swords,” you know that’s a pretty ...

Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the nobility in England was overwhelmingly Norman. It follows the Saxon protagonist, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe ...