Hwæt. That word, barking through the clatter of the mead hall, typically opened an Old English poem in the Dark Ages, and roughly translates to “What” or “Listen now.” Old English is largely Germanic, ...

There’s a certain state of mind I call crossword brain: It’s both intuitive and counterintuitive, knowing when to turn away from the seemingly obvious solution, but also knowing when to trust your ...

Historian Nicholas Higham speaks to Laura Reid about how the country’s transition from Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxon era marked the beginnings of Englishness.

It’s official. The Anglo-Saxons are getting canceled. The move comes more than 1,000 years too late for the previously ascendant Romano-British who couldn’t resist these Germanic peoples who showed up ...

“Beowulf,” the first great literary epic to come out of the British Isles, barely squeaked its way to us through time. Created between 650 and 850 A.D. and committed to manuscript circa 1000 A.D., it ...

Archaeologists have discovered the site of the long-lost palace of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. Using a combination of ground-penetrating radar, data from past archaeological excavations ...

For the first time, researchers have been able to directly estimate the Anglo-Saxon ancestry of the British population, using ancient skeletons. Human remains excavated from burial sites near ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw land territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland. He was the first 'King of all ...

Archaeologists in England have identified a near-complete Anglo-Saxon cave house, which, they say, may once have been the home of a king who became a saint. Thought to date from the early 9th century, ...