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 ...

Known as the Bromeswell bucket, the artifact found at England’s Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon site probably held the cremated ...

Forbes will play the fictional character Thane Thomas, with the “thanes” being a layer of nobility in the ethnically homogeneous society of Anglo-Saxon England. Moore, of Trinidadian descent ...

Say the term “Anglo-Saxon” to most people, and they’re likely to picture the Smashing Saxons from Horrible Historiesor the protagonists of Bernard Cornwell’s The Last Kingdom. In the ...

Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, which famously depicts William the Conqueror's victory over the so-called Anglo-Saxons Public domain via Wikimedia Commons People in the United States and Great ...