Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this fresh appreciation of Old English poetry ... Choice "The intermittent discussion in chapters 2-6 of the ways a noun-heavy ...

This 1930 volume contains the original texts, with translations and commentaries, of the great majority of surviving Anglo-Saxon wills drawn up in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The documents are ...

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 ...

The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one ... and spoke their own language, which gave rise to the English spoken today. The Anglo-Saxons also brought their own religious beliefs, but ...