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New research upends history of battle that doomed the last Anglo-Saxon king

The tragic tale of Harold, the king who lost England to William the Conqueror in an infamous battle, still looms large in British popular culture. But that story may need a reset, according to new ...
The Conversation

It’s a myth that England was created on the battlefield – most of it happened at the negotiating table

The story of the making of England is often represented as a battleground between the English and the Vikings, with waves of plunder, conquest and combat. Of the multiple English kingdoms, only one, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Many Myths of the Term ‘Anglo-Saxon’

Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, which famously depicts William the Conqueror's victory over the so-called Anglo-Saxons Public domain via Wikimedia Commons People in the United States and Great Britain ...
Publishers Weekly

The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Battle for the North Sea Empire

Tore Skeie, trans. from the Norwegian by Alison McCullough. Pushkin, $19.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-78227-835-1 Medieval historian Skeie makes his English-language debut with a gripping, ...