Narrator: Excuse me. Yes, you! Would you like to learn about the Anglo-Saxons? Great! Well let’s start at the beginning. The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was about 410 to 1066, and they originally ...
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 ...
An incredible Anglo-Saxon sword unearthed in a field in Kent ... to symbolise an oath between its owner and a king or a lord, or even a god. Conservator Dana Goodburn-Brown, who examined the ...
This piece of Anglo-Saxon high tech deception turned the surfaces ... bears the following words from the Bible’s Book of Numbers: “Rise up, oh Lord, and may thy enemies be dispersed and ...
Rise up, Lord, may your enemies be dispersed and those ... and was vigorously reintroduced to Anglo-Saxon England by missionaries, most from Ireland and the Continent. There was a "perception ...
"Look at Lord of the Rings, Dungeons & Dragons ... Tolkien, who was a professor of Anglo-Saxon English, completed his own translation of Beowulf in 1926. Irish poet Seamus Heaney's 1999 ...
The early Anglo-Saxon creator was imitating a Roman coin called a solidus, showing the emperor Honorius on one side and a figure holding a banner on the other A "very unusual" gold pendant made by ...
"It's an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon cemetery, with really beautifully ... one may suggest that it is a gift form a king or important lord. The sword is still in conservation and so we have not ...