Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

Beowulf is one of the most important texts in Old English and is believed to date from somewhere between 975 and 1025 - the time of Alfred, Athelstan and the Anglo-Saxons. The author is unknown.

What it is: A decorated Anglo-Saxon metal helmet with a faceplate ... to link the burial with the epic poem "Beowulf," an Old English tale that connects East Anglia with Scandinavia through ...

But the early Anglo-Saxons were not Christians ... when he was just seven years old. Bede wrote a book called 'A History of the English Church and People' in AD730. This was the story of the ...

which was sponsored by the Executive Committee of the Old English Division. This Special Session, which took place in Los Angeles in December, 1982, featured three papers on Anglo-Latin with special ...

Archaeologists identified a British cave dwelling as the refuge for an exiled Anglo-Saxon king in 2021 ... The 1,200-year-old structure was built during the life of Northumbrian King Eardwulf.

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ... to that depicted in the Old English epic poem, Beowulf.

One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old ... Anglo-Saxons' appropriation of Britain is starkly revealed in their most enduring legacy, the ...