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The first Anglo-Saxon queen?
The arrival of the Germanic-speaking peoples in Britain, known now as the Anglo-Saxons, and from which the modern-day English language descends in part, is a key moment in history of the English. Many historians give an account of it, known usually as the adventus Saxonum, or ‘the arrival of the Saxons.’ One of the principal… Read more
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King Alfred “Learns to Read” Now on a certain day his mother was showing him and his brothers a book of Saxon poetry, which she held in her hand, and finally said: ‘Whichever of you can soonest learn this volume, to him will I give it.’ Stimulated by these words, or rather by divine inspiration,… Read more
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Penda’s queen: Cynewise
King Penda (r. 626-655) has been in the news recently. Scholars working on the Staffordshire Hoard have been circling in on the ‘bold’ interpretation that the Hoard may be linked with the famous seventh-century Mercian king. Primarily a collection of war-materials, including many sword hilts, pieces of a helmet, and many other yet-to-be-identified pieces, it… Read more
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