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Anglo-Saxons |
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Invaders and Settlers (ppt)
Anglo-Saxon
Royalty Timeline with detailed information links The
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Anglo-Saxons (BBC Homepage)
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What sort of money did they use?
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Anglo-Saxons.net |
Anglo-Saxon Homes, Life and Living
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Anglo-Saxon Life and Traditions |
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Anglo-Saxons were extremely skilled at weaving and embroidery. The image below will take you to a link explaining what you need and how to make your every own bracelet by plaiting silk threads together. Have a go and have some fun!
Anglo-Saxons were skilled in many different crafts
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Writing and Runes Saxon Graves, Religion and Beliefs The Saxon Church - what was it all about?
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We know very little of the first several hundred years of the Anglo-Saxon, or "English", era, primarily because the invaders were an illiterate people. Our earliest records of them are little more than highly inventive lists of rulers. We know that they established separate kingdoms, the Saxons settling in the south and west, the Angles in the east and north, and the Jutes on the Isle of Wight and the mainland opposite. They probably thought of themselves as separate peoples, but they shared a common language and similar customs. |
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Anglo-Saxon
society revolved around warfare. Freemen were automatically warriors
and were expected to fight from early adolescence. Teenage boys were
often taken into a chieftain's household to be trained as warriors. Anglo-Saxon
Warfare text site.
Who
Arthur fought - The Anglo Saxons! Legal
Rights under Aelfred King of Wessex
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Weapons In early Anglo-Saxon times the sword (such as the examples on the below) was by and large almost parallel sided down to the tip, where it then tapered to a point; although tapering blades similar to late Saxon and Viking swords were not unknown at that point. These early swords usually had pommels and crossguards made up of layers of organic material such as wood, bone or horn; which were often sandwiched, embellished with, or even completely covered by, bronze, gold and silver. Some examples were even inlaid with garnets trapped in separate cells, or were decorated with enamel. Some swords also had a ring attached to the upper guard, that to begin with was a true ring, but later became bastardised into a vestigial ring such as that on the Sutton Hoo sword. Their purpose is unclear, although they may have represented some special honour bestowed on the sword's owner.
The Seax (a dagger like knife)
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Activities,
games and more information on the Anglo-Saxons |
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The
Time Squad Anglo-Saxon Crime and Punishment Activity |
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DragonsFable
FireSpawn (Medieval era Game) |
Undead
Assault (Medieval era Game) |
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