Anglo-Saxons made their own clothes out of natural materials. The men wore long-sleeved tunics made of wool or linen, often decorated with a pattern. Their trousers were woollen and held up by a leather belt from which they could hang their tools such as knives and pouches. Shoes were us...
After theAnglo-Saxons, came the vicious Vikings! Join the National Geographic Kids gang as we learn to live like a Scandinavian sea-warrior, in our ten fierce facts about the Vikings… Viking facts 1.The Vikings were famous for sailing huge distances from their home in Scandinavia between AD...
When the Vikings stormed Lindisfarne Monastery in 793, the Anglo-Saxons’ history became intertwined with the Vikings’. They were similar in many ways, including language, religious belief, and Northern European ancestry, but they were not the same. The fact that they infiltrated Britain at vary...
and where it came from1 THE British pound is the world's oldest currency still in use and circulation, its beginnings reaching back to the 8th century and the reign of Offa, a monarch of the ancient Anglo-Saxon Mercian kingdom, which is now, geographically, a part of Staffordshire in ...
While documents on the lives of women are scarce from the period, Anglo-Saxon England was fairly oppressive toward women by today's standards. By contrast, the Vikings of the period seemed to have allowed women far more freedom, giving married women financial control of a household and allowing...
self-flagellate and even froth at the mouth. While watching such episodes, it wasn’t uncommon for terrified opponents to break ranks and flee. In fact, the practice made such an impression on the Anglo-Saxons that the wordberserkeventually found its way into the English language...
Edward the Confessor, son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was the penultimate Anglo-Saxon King of England. After his death, the...
Danelaw, the northern, central, and eastern region of Anglo-Saxon England colonized by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century. In the 11th and 12th centuries, it was recognized that all of eastern England between the Rivers Tees and Thames formed
Ragnar is said to have been the father of three sons—Halfdan,Inwaer(Ivar the Boneless), andHubba (Ubbe)—who, according to theAnglo-Saxon Chronicleand other medieval sources, led a Viking invasion ofEast Angliain 865. They may have sought to avenge Ragnar’s death, which may or may no...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tends to call the Vikings “Danes” whenever it is not calling them heathens. So it is reasonable to conclude that Danes were the majority, though our early sources tend to be indiscriminate. The army also included significant representation from Ivar's Ireland-based ...