Our Anglo-Saxon Heritage

Our Anglo-Saxon Heritage
The cultural and historical inheritance of the Old English

Anglo-Saxon Heritage Links

Anglo-Saxon England, A Guide to Online Resources, from ORB
Regia Angolorum, everyday life in Anglo-Saxon and Viking England
Fauna, animal life of Anglo-Saxon England, a general article with illustrations by Ben Levick
Flora, plant life of Anglo-Saxon England, a general article with illustrations by Ben Levick
Map of Anglo-Saxon England,
Viking Age Living History Society (VALHS), the US equivalent of the Regia Angolorum

Corpus of Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art, an inventory of surviving manuscript art
The Lindesfarne Gospels, the finest surviving example of Anglo-Saxon manuscript illumination (circa 698). The manuscript is a part of the permanent collection at the British Library, London.

Anglo-Saxon Cultural Resources, from the Labyrinth
Clothing in Anglo-Saxon England, a detailed description with illustrations
Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon England, a general article by Ben Levick
Medieval and Anglo-Saxon Recipes, eat as our ancestors ate, if you dare
Games of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age,
Wharram Percy, a fascinating survey of a high wold Yorkshire village. As an archeological site, it was one of the most important peasant digs in England.

A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon England, a general article by Ben Levick and Andrew Nicholson
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, maintained at various monasteries from the time of Alfred until after the Conquest, it is an annual record of the history of Anglo-Saxon England
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in Modern English translation
Anglo-Saxon History: A Select Bibliography, compiled by Simon Keynes
The Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain, a detailed article by Ben Levick
The Conversion of England, from Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English Church and People
The Finnesburh Fragment, a surviving section of a poem describing Hengist, the alleged leader of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain and the first Saxon king of Kent; in translation.
A tribal map, the locations of the various Ango-Saxon kingdoms/nations/tribes
The Tribal Hidage, a census of the Anglo-Saxon lands in hides, the basic unit of land
Kingmakers: The Story of the House of Godwin, the most powerful family of late Anglo-Saxon England, who claimed the throne only to lose it to William, Duke of Normandy, in 1066
The Battle of Hastings, the Norman conquest of 1066 brings to an end the Anglo-Saxon Age; a general article by Kim Siddorn
The House of Wessex, the Anglo-Saxon Monarchy

Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, in translation
A photo of a manuscript page from The Exeter Book of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (10th century; Exeter D. & C. MS. 3501): The Wanderer, 11. 1-33, fo. 76v.
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, primary sources from Anglo-Saxon Britain
The Labyrinth Library, the texts of surviving Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose

Beowulf, the complete text from the British Library manuscript Cotton Vitellius A.15