The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ... this work is a Geat from modern-day Sweden, who comes to the ...

One day, or perhaps one night ... metal to be interwoven with many colours." Modern studies of wounds on skeletons found in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Kent show that these beautiful swords ...

From barbarian invaders to devout Christian missionaries, the Anglo-Saxons brought four hundred years of religious evolution and shifting political power to the British Isles. English owes much to ...