Image caption, The weregild payable for the murder of an Anglo-Saxon thane (noble) was 6,000 pennies. The weregild for a king was 90,000! The Saxons had a system called 'weregild', which meant ...

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important ... The original commissioner was likely a Wessexian noble or a member of Alfred the Great’s court. The extent to which Alfred himself ...

The largest Anglo-Saxon ship burial ever discovered contained ... In the 1990s, a warrior noble in full armor was found buried alongside his horse. Since one-third of the Sutton Hoo site has ...