Gildas, a British monk, wrote 'The Ruin of Britain', the only near-contemporary source for the collapse of Roman Britain and the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. Gildas saw these events as God's ...

But who were the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans and what led to the Battle of Hastings? Here's what you need to know. The Anglo-Saxons are a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

Research indicates that the Vikings were not the worst invaders to land on English shores at that time. That title goes to the Anglo-Saxons, 400 years earlier. The Anglo-Saxons came from Jutland in ...

And the Anglo-Saxon state produced lots of law - legal ... rather than on a mutual sense of responsibility to the community. In the Viking era, law-making begins to change to reflect new social ...

The attraction, based at The Brooks Shopping Centre, will give visitors an insight into Anglo-Saxon Winchester through live performance, immersive storytelling, innovative interpretation ...

Scientists working on the National Grid’s Viking Link project -- construction ... The most striking discovery, however, is the remains of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery,” according to Wessex Archaeology.

He is now the patron saint of Ireland. The traditional date of 449 AD for the arrival of the Anglo-Saxon invaders of Britain is taken from the 'Ecclesiastical History of the English', completed by ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan ...