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 …
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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 …
About Me
I’m an independent scholar and full-time educator. I teach English language and literature in a secondary school in the UK. We teach the CIE IGCSE syllabus for Language and Literature. There was a fairly major change on the IGCSE Langauge paper this year, seemingly combining the former Paper 1 and Paper 2 into one Paper …
Introduction
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, …
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
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Anglo-Saxon Queens 