The Anglo-SaxonsA highly pictorial look at the end of Roman Britain, the early kings, the Viking invasions, and the end of Anglo-Saxon England. |
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abbey abbot Aelfric Aethelbald Aethelbert Aethelred Aethelred's Aethelstan Aethelwold Alcuin Alfred Alfred's Anglo Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon England archaeology Archbishop army Bede Bede's Birch bishop Britons burh Canterbury Carolingian Cart Cenwulf Charlemagne charters Christ Christian Church Cnut Cnut's coinage coins Conquest Cuthbert Danelaw Danes Danish Domesday dyke ealdorman earl early East Anglia Edgar Edward English evidence example exile Frankish Gaul German Godwine grave Harold Harthacnut Hidage important Irish Kent Kentish king king's kingdom land late later laws Lindisfarne London manuscript medieval Mercian Minster monasteries monastic monks Museum Norman Northumbria Offa Offa's Offa's Dyke origin pagan perhaps period Picture Essay political probably reform reign Roman Britain royal rule rulers Saint Scandinavian seems settlement shire shows silver sources Stenton suggests survived Sutton Hoo tenth century thegns towns Vikings Wessex West Saxon Wilfrid William Winchester Worcester Wormald Wulfstan York