Eric Bloodaxe, the Viking ruler of York, was killed by the Wessex army in 954 and England was united under one king - Edred. Most of the information we have about the Anglo-Saxons comes from the ...

The writing of the Chronicle sheds as much light onto Anglo-Saxon England as the text itself. In the 890s CE, a group of scholars in the Kingdom of Wessex were commissioned to write a chronicle of ...

Narrator: Excuse me. Yes, you! Would you like to learn about the Anglo-Saxons? Great! Well let’s start at the beginning. The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was about 410 to 1066, and they originally ...

In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund has ... Between A.D. 600 and 850 Mercia waged 14 wars with its neighbor Wessex, 11 with the Welsh, and 18 campaigns with other foes—and ...