Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

A strong and successful leader became 'cyning', the Anglo-Saxon word for 'king'. Each king ruled a kingdom and led a small army. The Anglo-Saxon kings were from ruling families who passed ...

Then, in 2008, a Rendlesham landowner notified authorities that “nighthawks”—metal detectorists who raid archaeological ... of the finest examples of Anglo-Saxon metalworking ever unearthed ...