The early medieval author of 'The Marvels of the East' collected various monsters that could rival Pokémon's finest, as this blog post reveals.
Anglo-Saxons in the Low Countries: Boniface in Dorestad
1300 years ago, the Anglo-Saxon missionary Boniface arrived in Dorestad. This blog reports on an exhibition held in celebration of this event.
How Cnut became Canute
How did the spelling for the name of Cnut the Great, Viking king of England from 1016 to 1035, change from to ? The Normans may be to blame...
An Anglo-Saxon Anecdote: How beer and bees beat the Viking siege of Chester in c. 907
How to defeat a Viking siege? Tenth-century Anglo-Saxons prove the answer, apparently, could involve bees.
