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

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 ...

In one Anglo-Saxon cemetery in eastern England rest the skeletons of two ... then the capital city of the Kingdom of Kent. Christianity spread rapidly across her realm, and before the year was ...

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 ...

Artists and historians are hoping plans for a museum and art trail will help to mark a Viking clash that took place in ...

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

Overall, seven major kingdoms and more than 200 kings warred ... Surely, more examples from Anglo-Saxon England are out there somewhere.

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 Sutton Hoo helmet in England.