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Showing posts with label Anglo-Saxons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anglo-Saxons. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Historical Epic Unveiled: The Briton and the Dane by Mary Ann Bernal. Narrated by Sebastian Lockwood.

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Author: Mary Ann Bernal Narrator: Sebastian Lockwood Series: The Briton and the Dane, Book 1 Length:11 hrs and 30 mins Release Date: A...
Monday, April 2, 2018

The Langeid Viking Battle Axe and a Warrior Who Singlehandedly Held Off the Entire English Army

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Ancient Origins BY THORNEWS Contrary to what many believe, battle axes from the last part of the Viking age, i.e. the 11th century, ...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

The Great Heathen Army: Viking Coalition Becomes an Anglo-Saxon Nightmare

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Ancient Origins  Viking raids may have been a common factor in the life of a 9th century Anglo Saxon, but there was something terrifyin...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

Discovered: Thor's Shattered Viking Army and their Sacred Hammer of the Gods

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Ancient Origins The mysterious origins of almost 300 violently broken bodies discovered in a mass grave in Derbyshire, England, are “t...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

If King Alfred was great, was Æthelstan even greater?

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History Extra Æthelstan is shown dressed as a pilgrim with Guy of Warwick in a scene from the 14th-century 'Chronicle of England...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Ælfthryth: England’s first queen

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History Extra Illustration by Sarah Young. If asked to name a medieval queen of England, most would probably fasten upon Eleanor of ...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

The great Viking terror: how Norse warriors conquered the Anglo-Saxons

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History Extra This detail from the side of a sledge in a ninth-century Viking burial shows two men fighting. In the 860s and 870s, the...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

How the Anglo-Saxons Emerged in the 5th Century

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Made from History A bust of emperor Honorius (384-423) the last Roman Emperor to control Britain.  BY CRAIG BESSELL  At the turn o...