After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw land territories ... In Viking times, a king had to be strong to fight and keep his land. Ethelred the Unready was a weak king of England.
This reverse migration is strong evidence of the Britons effectively fighting against them in that era. However, the Britons ...
The Anglo-Saxons had armies, but their soldiers didn't fight all the time. After a battle, they went home as soon as they could and looked after their animals and crops. Anglo-Saxon children had ...
British archaeologists have located the remains of an 11th-century royal residence in Bosham, West Sussex—almost certainly ...
Instead, she argued, it seemed likely that the early Anglo-Saxon nobleman buried in the Prittlewell grave had acquired them when he was fighting in the Far East. Artifacts from other early English ...
The burial mound of Sutton Hoo. Credit: Neil Theasby / Wikimedia Commons The most recent study, published in the English Historical Review, proposes a groundbreaking hypothesis: some Anglo-Saxons may ...
New research by Oxford University has suggested Anglo-Saxons were more connected to other parts of the world than previously thought.
Prior research has shown that soldiers in Britain were recruited by the Byzantine army, which was busy fighting the Sasanians ... Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine ...