It is first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in AD 845 and in the ... be defined as ‘the farmstead of the thanes’ – a thane being a term referring to a ranking servant.

CANTERBURY, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that a sword dated to the sixth century has been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in southeastern England. The weapon features a gild and silver ...

The early Anglo-Saxon creator was imitating a Roman coin called a solidus, showing the emperor Honorius on one side and a figure holding a banner on the other A "very unusual" gold pendant made by ...

Anglo-Saxon evidence of a settlement has been found in Holderness. Archaeologists working on Dogger Bank Wind Farm will reveal their finds at a public event next week. The early medieval ...

A British college that offers courses in medieval history is reportedly scrutinizing multiple historical terms out of concern that they evoke nationalism. British news outlet The Telegraph ...

A university has removed the term Anglo-Saxon from module titles in a bid to 'decolonise the curriculum.' The University of Nottingham is removing the expression from a number of courses ...

From the richest old Thane in the county to the poorest chained serf in the ... when Norman barons were imposed as overlords over the native Anglo-Saxons. This is a dying Norman lord’s instructions to ...

In Anglo-Saxon Britain, Wyrd was a pre-Christian personification ... most famously in “Macbeth,” whose Weird Sisters foresee that the Thane of Glamis will become king of Scotland.

Further, the series will also introduce a completely fictional character know as Thane Thomas (Thane being an Anglo-Saxon title equivalent to ‘nobleman’), as set to be played by 3 Body Problem actor ...

Forbes and Moore will be playing Anglo-Saxons, with the former playing a fictional character Thane Thomas. Moore, of Trinidadian descent, will star as the real historical figure of Morcar ...

Although we call the language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons “Old English,” English speakers today won’t find much in common between it and the language we have now. More than 1000 years ago ...