After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

T he sums are eye-watering. In 991 the English king Æthelred paid the Vikings £10,000 to stop them sacking the east coast of ...

Across the channel in England, sporadic raids expanded into total warfare, as a Viking army invaded and conquered three Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, leaving bodies to rot in the fields. The Viking age, ...

Monarchs of Northumbria. Discover the story of the kings of Northumbria from Oswiu ( c. 654 – c. 670 AD ) to Ælla ( c. 862 – ...

During his reign from 924 to 939, Athelstan united the Anglo-Saxons, defeated the Vikings and became the first king of England after seizing control of Northumbria. He was the first monarch to be ...

More Viking Age silver has been discovered per square kilometer on the Isle of Man than in England, Ireland, Scotland, and ...

It is only higher education institution in the UK to offer a Viking Studies course but now Nottingham wants to rename an ...

Jarls were noble warriors - the Anglo-Saxon equivalent was an earl. Unlike this prestigious landmark, much smaller boat burials were common among the Vikings. So far the team have found bones from ...

Its importance to the Vikings is shown by two graves found ... the sort of thing one might expect to discover at a looted Anglo-Saxon Christian centre. "There were spectacular copper alloy ...

Biology students are being warned that they might see upsetting images of the human body in trigger warnings introduced by a ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Vikings Hnefatafl: Kings of the Dark Age In the late 8th century, Anglo-Saxon Britain faces a threat like none before: northmen from across the seas ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...