Eric Bloodaxe, the Viking ruler of York, was killed by the Wessex army in 954 and England was united under one king - Edred. Most of the information we have about the Anglo-Saxons comes from the ...

Anglo-Saxons was the name given to this group of ... Mercia from the Vikings by building forts and in 917 she sent an army to capture Viking-held Derby. In 918, Leicester also surrendered to ...

Archaeologists believe they found a residence of medieval ruler Harold Godwinson, England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. A nearby ...

The famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an eastern ... chain mail worn by some soldiers in the Byzantine army at that time. The gold- and jewel-encrusted Sutton Hoo ...

Credit: Neil Theasby / Wikimedia Commons The most recent study, published in the English Historical Review, proposes a groundbreaking hypothesis: some Anglo-Saxons may have served as elite soldiers in ...

More information: Helen Gittos, Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?, The English Historical Review (2025). DOI: 10.1093/ehr/ceae213 ...

Trustees of the British Museum/PA Archaeologists uncovered an Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo thought to be related to King Raedwald in 1939 But Dr Gittos suggests Byzantine Army soldiers ...

study finds The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle described how Scandinavians formed a Great Army to raid, conquer and winter in England from AD865. They fought and killed King Edmund, whose body was laid to ...

The discovery not only sheds light on the final Anglo-Saxon king, it also provides a rare window into a key turning point in history for England, researchers said. Bosham is named on the Bayeux ...