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 ...

Step into a world where small islands birthed legends and kingdoms, where warriors, kings, and myths shaped the destiny of an entire continent. Imagine a time when the British Isles were a patchwork ...

Explore the history and legacy of the last Celts in England. This video delves into the final Celtic communities that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Anglo-Saxons edited by James Campbell (Penguin, 1991) After Rome: c.400-c.800 (Short Oxford History of the British Isles) edited by Thomas Charles-Edwards (Oxford University Press, 2003) ...

Anglo-Saxons were only 24 per cent English, a new study has revealed. Researchers from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology carried out a genetic study to understand the scale ...

Bagby’s first encounter with “Beowulf” was at age 12, when his seventh-grade English teacher gave it to him. The idea of performing it live in the original Anglo-Saxon came to him in 1982.

An amateur treasure hunter prowling English farmland with a metal detector stumbled upon the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found, a massive seventh-century hoard of gold and silver sword ...