After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw land territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland. He was the first 'King of all ...

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 ...

Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of medieval era continues with a video on the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse - Vikings, as we try to deduce why the Saxons ...

“Although admittedly, the Vikings did it on a grander scale.” Martin Carver, an emeritus professor of archaeology at the University of York, characterizes the antagonism between the Anglo ...

While this find isn’t nearly as massive as the aforementioned treasure hoards of legend, what detectorists Paul Gould and ...

The artefacts have been dated to the Anglo-Saxon era of 7th century AD ... it symbolised darkness and death during the Germanic and Viking ages, tied to the Norse god Odin.

The houses would be built on ground thought to have staged a battle between Saxons and Danes ... dates to the end of the reign of the last Anglo-Saxon king, says an expert. The items will form ...