The Anglo-Saxons
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The Anglo-Saxons
Under the leadership of King Egbert, these tribes, now known as the Anglo-Saxons, united the whole of England except for the far north.
The Anglo-Saxons were farmers and country folk. They founded many villages which still exist in England today.
The Anglo-Saxons were originally pagan but, after the arrival of St Augustine from Rome in 597 A.D., they converted to Christianity.
Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxons (Part 1) (video)
King Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and the first King of the Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons (Penguin History)
The Anglo-Saxons (Penguin History)
Amazon Price: $15.00 (as of 02/17/2012)
This well-illustrated volume provides an excellent introduction to the Anglo-Saxon period. The "picture essays" regarding coinage and other specialized topics help provide detail without interrupting what amounts to historic narrative.
The problems of using source documents are detailed as well as the triumphs of modern archealogy in expanding our understanding of this period of history.
The photographs, drawings, and maps compliment and support the text nicely.
Highly recommended as an introduction to the period and its people.
Facing the Threat of Invasion by the Vikings
"Then King Alfred had long ships built to oppose the Danish warships. They were almost twice as long as the others. Some had 60 oars, some more. They were both swifter and less flexible and also higher than the others."
-- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (896 AD; 1961 translation), telling of the strengthening of the Anglo-Saxon English navy in response to Viking attacks from the sea
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Parade Helmet found at Sutton Hoo ship burial site (England), probably belonging to Raedwald of East Anglia, c. 625 AD
Blog Posts on the Anglo-Saxons
- Conservation of Museum Objects
- Revealed to the world for the first time the Anglo-Saxons of Butlers Field, Lechlade. Re-united with their astonishing treasures. Our ancestors brought to life through forensically re-constructed heads. Trace a path from the Iron Age to the English ...
- Viking death squads found in mass grave shows how Anglo-Saxons hit back at the ...
- By Tamara Cohen A mass grave found in Dorset contains the bodies of an elite 'hit squad' of invading Viking warriors, experts claim. All decapitated and buried alongside their severed heads, the 54 skeletons were discovered in 2009 by workmen digging a ...
- Mysteries of a Buried Treasure
- It quotes from the Venerable Bede about the Anglo-Saxons, and includes "Caedmon's Hymn" and snatches of Beowulf. Besides a good description of sword making, there is a ghastly description of the bodily damage that weapons could do, based not only on ...
First page of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Beowulf (c. 8th-11th century AD)
The Heroic Code of Beowulf
"It is better for a man to avenge his friend than to mourn him long. We must all expect an end to life in this world; let him who can win fame before death, because that is a dead man's best memorial."
-- Beowulf (c. 8th-11 century AD; 1957 translation)
Speaking Anglo-Saxon - Extract from the Poem, Beowulf
With David Dimbleby
Beautiful early 9th century Anglo-Saxon silver brooches found at Pentney, Norfolk, England, in 1977
Death of King Harold, last of the Anglo-Saxon Kings, 4 October 1066
"And William [the Conqueror] came upon him [King Harold] by surprise before his people were marshalled. Nevertheless, the king fought very hard against him with those men that wanted to support him, and there was a great slaughter on either side. There were killed King Harold ... and many good men."
-- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Worchcester Manuscript, 1066; 1966 translation)
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