The Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf describes a similar royal structure as a “timbered hall, splendid and ornamented with gold. The building in which a powerful man held court that was the foremost of ...
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 ...
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 ...
THE Harwich Society’s winter programme of monthly talks will continue with a talk by the Sutton Hoo Ship's Company about the famous ...