쎆thelred the Unready (also known as 쎆thelred II the Unready) was a renowned King of the Anglo-Saxons or the English from the House of Wessex during the Early Middle Ages. He was born in circa 968 and reigned twice over Anglo-Saxon England, his first reign taking place between 978 to 1013 and then once more…
King Alfred the Great (born in circa 849 – deceased on 26 October 899; reigned between 871 to 886 as King of Wessex and then between 886 until his death in 899 as King of the Anglo-Saxons) is one of the most important royal personalities in English history. He earned his reputation as a great…
Norn (alternatively known as Norroena) is an extinct North Germanic language which was very close to Old Norse (or norr쎸nt as it is known in Norwegian Bokm쎥l), the language the Norse spoke during the tumultuous Viking Age, a historical period of time that was part of the Early Middle Ages. It was mainly spoken in…
Anglo-Saxon art refers to the type of early medieval English art developed by the Anglo-Saxons, a cultural group and confederation of three Germanic peoples (namely Angles, Saxons, and Jutes) who sailed to and settled Britain from continental Europe (more specifically from present-day northern Germany and Jutland, Denmark) beginning in the 5th century. Anglo-Saxon art encompassed…
The Anglo-Saxons were an ethnic, linguistic, and cultural mixture of three Germanic peoples (i.e. the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, according to medieval chronicler Saint Bede the Venerable) which migrated from what is now Denmark (more specifically the Jutland peninsula) and northern Germany (more specifically the states of Schleswig-Holstein, most notably the Angeln peninsula,…
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