The earl was the king's ‘right hand man’ in a shire. The position was not hereditary, but it became usual in the 10th century to choose earls from a few outstanding families. The upper group ...

However, the Britons did not hold the Anglo-Saxons back for long. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written in the 10th century, ...

It is a tale of endless war and at the end of it, in the early years of the 10th Century, a new nation is ... in the Somerset marshes it seemed that Saxon Britain was doomed, and that Alfred ...

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important ... beginning with Caesar’s invasion in 50 BCE. From the mid-fifth ...

Britain, early-10th century AD. Edward ... Aethelstan has fallen under the influence of Ingilmundr, a half-Dane, half-Saxon, who appears to have prophetic powers. The Saxons' enemies - the ...