Historians had long assumed that Anglo-Saxon elites ate far more meat than the peasantry they lorded over because of documents itemizing food tributes, known as “feorm” in Old English.

The towering castles that dot England’s landscape symbolize power, conquest, and control. For centuries, they have been viewed as monuments to the Norman elite who reshaped the country after 1066.

FOR ANGLO-SAXON UNITY; ... A STRONG EULOGY FOR AMERICA Warns the Powers -- War Would Be Cheap, He Says, If the Two Flags Waved Together in Some Noble Cause. Share full article.

We may not yet know how the Anglo-Saxons used Syrian bitumen, ... it was easier for an East Anglian noble to get bitumen from Syria than from the west of England. PLoS One, 2016.

Experts say the hoard demonstrates that many Anglo Saxon warriors – usually drawn from the noble classes – went into battle with an immense wealth of weaponry and ‘bling’. A gold sword ...

Learn who Aethelflaed was and what the different kingdoms were in Anglo-Saxon Britain. ... The weregild payable for the murder of an Anglo-Saxon thane (noble) was 6,000 pennies.

A collection of Anglo-Saxon gold, part of the Staffordshire Hoard which was the largest such find ever recorded. It was unearthed in 2009 in central England and is now housed in two museums. Foto ...

Experts have studied the DNA of 300 Anglo-Saxon people found along the eastern British coast, and have found that 75% of them can be traced to continental northern Europe, indicating a major ...

BBC America’s powerful new historical drama “The Last Kingdom” tells the story that made England possible, and with it the flourishing of Anglo-Saxon culture and law that underpin America as ...