Step into a world where small islands birthed legends and kingdoms, where warriors, kings, and myths shaped the destiny of an ...

Michael Alexander’s selection of “The First Poems in English” (Penguin Classics, 176 pages, $15), originally published in 1966 but now revised and expanded, remains a high watermark of translation. Mr ...

James Norton leads the King and Conqueror cast as Harold of Wessex, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England. Set in the 11th ...

The Vikings did not come close to that. And where the earlier Anglo-Saxons apparently did not mix with the native Britons, the Vikings did exactly that with the now Anglo-Saxon English. By these ...

The Anglo-Saxons gave us the most foremost language in the world, English, which derives from Old English or Anglo-Saxon. They unified what came to be England as we know it, while the English ...

It's official. The Anglo-Saxons are getting canceled. The move comes more than 1,000 years too late for the previously ascendant Romano-British who couldn't resist these Germanic peoples who ...

Michael Matto, Vernacular Traditions: Exploring Anglo-Saxon Mentalities, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 115, No. 1 (January 2016), pp. 95-113 ...

Nestled in a sandstone crag along a winding river in the English countryside, a near-complete Anglo-Saxon cave house has been waiting to tell centuries-old stories. Perhaps one of a Northumbrian ...

Using “English” seems needlessly Anglocentric and teleological, given that, before crossing into Britain, the Anglo-Saxons settled in Frisia, in today’s Netherlands and Germany.

A 3D basicranial shape-based assessment of local and continental northwest European ancestry among 5th to 9th century CE Anglo-Saxons. PLOS ONE, 2021; 16 (6): e0252477 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone ...

We were required to take a semester of Old English (and we knew that didn’t mean Chaucer!), to be followed by a semester reading “Beowulf” in the original Anglo-Saxon.