A storyteller played music on a small harp or a lyre to accompany their stories and poems. Anglo-Saxon jewellers made brooches, beads and gold ornaments. At first, their artwork was pagan ...

This is a poem set in Scandinavia, in which Beowulf battles against a monster called Grendel. Anglo-Saxons also enjoyed riddles. In the 900s, around one hundred were gathered together in the ...

Beowulf's helmet in the poem is described as made of "beaten ... Much is still unknown about the Anglo-Saxons, who ruled England from the fifth to 11th centuries, primarily because in the ninth ...

It investigates the connection between the burgeoning interest in trauma studies and darkness and the representation of the mind or of emotional experience in Anglo-Saxon literature. In The Third ...