The university offers a leading course in Viking and Anglo-Saxon history and literature, but US academics in particular have campaigned against the term “Anglo-Saxon” because it suggests a ...

When the Black Death hit London, England in 1348 CE, it began to affect the English language. Due to the class struggle ...

The show is, of course, called Vikings, and ran for six seasons from 2013-2020. The historical drama, added to Netflix this ...

In classical Western literature, the middle of life is represented as a time ... Beowulf, the hero of an early Anglo-Saxon ...

Beowulf, the hero of an early Anglo-Saxon poem, likewise does not show signs of slowing down until old age, when a dragon proves too much for him to kill without help from a much younger man.

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Thomas Atwood dropped a hornet’s nest down his stepmother’s dress and unleashed an epic tale: 7’ giants, snuff-chewing women, ...

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The empire, he insists, was still central to their thinking, but so was European integration or even world federation: both, naturally, under “white Anglo-Saxon” leadership ... Kowol largely ignores ...

and later Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University. He retired as Merton Professor of English Language and Literature in 1959. It was at Oxford University that he became close friends with CS ...