In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Medieval History series, we explore why the Anglo-Saxons were repeatedly defeated by ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

In the first recorded attack, in A.D. 793, Vikings raided an undefended monastic community at Lindisfarne in the northeast. Alcuin of York, an Anglo-Saxon scholar, recorded the onslaught ...

Instead of waiting out the Vikings until they went away, the Anglo-Saxons reaped the myriad benefits of a broad cultural intermingling that many people still think never happened. “The world ...

THE question, Are the Americans an Anglo-Saxon people? Is usually answered in the affirmative. Most of the world takes it for granted as a universally accepted fact that they are Anglo-Saxon.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Vikings Hnefatafl: Kings of the Dark Age In the late 8th century, Anglo-Saxon Britain faces a threat like none before: northmen from across the seas ...

The strap-ends are thought to be of Anglo-Saxon origin, contrasting with the rest of the hoard, which indicates Viking craftsmanship. Four of the bracelet fragments "may be from the same bracelet ...

The silver penny brooch dates to the end of the reign of the last Anglo-Saxon king, says an expert. The items will form part of an exhibition that will be held at a museum in Scunthorpe.

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...