Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important artifacts of English history. As a text, it is a remarkable record of ...

Most of the information we have about the Anglo-Saxons comes from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a year-by-year account of all the major events of the time. Among other things it describes the rise ...

This gives us an idea of how difficult life could be in early medieval England. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle close Anglo-Saxon ChronicleA collection of manuscripts written while Alfred the Great was ...

This narrative is based largely on Anglo-Saxon sources, the writings of Bede and in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which are far from perfect but still basically informative and credible. Certainly the ...

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...

But there is no record of who attended although the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that Archbishop Lanfranc performed the ceremony. It was according to the Anglo-Saxon liturgy.