Many towns and villages still carry their Anglo-Saxon names today, including “England” which comes from the Saxon word “Angle-Land”. Early Anglo-Saxon villages were named after the leader of the tribe so everyone knew who was in charge. If you’d visited Reading in Anglo-Saxon times, ...
Key Facts & InformationHISTORICAL BACKGROUNDThe Anglo-Saxons were no strangers to Britain, having served in the Roman army on the island. They began slowly colonizing Britain even before the Roman legions left. Despite this, historical evidence suggests that they were invited with the intention of...
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Annieis a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and has written four award-winning novels set in ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Mercia. She has contributed to fiction and nonfiction anthologies and written for various magazines. She has twice been a prize winner in the Mail on Sunday Novel Writing Competiti...
Top 10 facts The Anglo-Saxons are made up of three tribes who came to England from across the North Sea around the middle of the 5th century: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. For a long time, England wasn’t really one country – Anglo-Saxon kings ruled lots of little kingdoms across ...
Anglo-Saxon, term used historically to describe any member of the Germanic peoples who, from the 5th century CE to the time of the Norman Conquest (1066), inhabited and ruled territories that are now in England and Wales. The peoples grouped together as
A number of Anglo-Saxon laws protected women against violence and sexual crimes. Women could independently live as widows, own property, and raise children on their own.
being brutal and having the urge to always fight, they were basically still barbarians and they way of converting them was to try to get them to relate some of the ways of there life to the Christian religion. The Anglo Saxons that were converted by the Irish form ofChristianitywas ...
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Footnotes: ¹Anglo-Saxon Chronicleedited by Michael Swanton. * Pictures courtesy of Wikipedia Sources:Brewer’s British Royaltyby David Williamson; Britain’s Royal Families, the Complete Genealogyby Alison Weir;The Wordsworth Dictionary of British Historyby JP Kenyon;The Anglo-Saxons in 100 Factsby...