Alfred expanded his kingdom, taking land from the Mercia ... idea of how difficult life could be in early medieval England. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle close Anglo-Saxon ChronicleA collection ...

When Sihtric died a year later in 927, Athelstan seized the opportunity to take his kingdom. He thus became the first ...

Most of the rivers of England have Brythonic names: Avon for example is the Welsh afon (river). Saxon or English kingdoms were created, the strongest of which, by AD 700, were Northumbria ...

Sutton Hoo is located in eastern England in an area known as East Anglia ... entirely new in the archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms,” says Christopher Scull of Cardiff University and ...

The sovereign was the last Anglo-Saxon king of the House of Wessex, having taken over from the Dane Harthacnut. Before him ...

But the treasure pulled from Fred Johnson's field was novel—a cache of gold, silver, and garnet objects from early Anglo-Saxon times and from one of the most important kingdoms of the era.

A metalworking die found in Denmark features a depiction of a horse and warrior that is remarkably similar to motifs on the ...

The Trustees of the British Museum The helmet was among more than 260 items discovered at an estate in Suffolk, England ... a king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia who died around ...