Nicholas Howe, a UC Berkeley English professor and medieval scholar who broke ground in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies with his view that the Germanic invaders who occupied England after 600 A.D ...

Bird-Shaped Brooch, 500–550 C.E., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917, 17.191.74. Public domain. Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center is a scholarly ...

Speaking of literature, the park also houses a museum that hosts events based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. ... West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village and Country Park.

During this era we get the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, followed by great works of early British literature like Beowulf and The Wanderer. People of the time wrote in a language that today we call Old ...

The Normans defeated the Anglo-Saxon King, Harold 11, at the Battle of Hastings and conquered England. This conquest inaugurated a distinctly new epoch in literature, as well as the political ...

The earliest fragments of English reveal how interconnected Europe has been for centuries. As an exhibition in London brings together treasures from Anglo-Saxon England, Cameron Laux traces a ...

Born and educated in Manchester, Michael did postgraduate research on Anglo-Saxon history at Oxford. Since then he has made over 60 documentary films and written several best selling books.

The most famous Anglo-Saxon riddles are the Exeter Book riddles, a collection of about 90 dating to around A.D. 1000; they appear here in crisp new translation from Old English.