According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a contemporary annal, hundreds of Viking ships arrived along the east coast of England in 865, carrying a ravenous host that the Chronicle writers called ...
The Sutton Hoo Helmet is one of the most important Anglo Saxon finds of all time ... it were a vast array of weaponry and a 27-metre-long ship. Although the helmet belonged to a powerful war ...
Viking long ships could sail in shallow water so ... Britnoth was betrayed and all his men died fighting with him. A famous Anglo-Saxon poem called The Battle of Maldon celebrated Britnoth ...
they concluded that the settlement was not Viking, as first assumed, but Anglo-Saxon. The significance of Sutton Hoo was instantly recognized. The largest Anglo-Saxon ship burial ever discovered ...
“The discovery of this pendant cross… is of major importance for the study of early medieval goldsmiths’ work, and for our ...