Its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon flēot " tidal inlet ".< ref > In Anglo-Saxon times, the Fleet served as a dock for shipping.

In Anglo-Saxon times, the Fleet was still a substantial body of water, joining the Thames through a marshy tidal basin over wide at the mouth of the Fleet Valley.

Bacup emerged as a settlement following the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the Early Middle Ages.

The name " Mercia " comes from the Old English for " boundary folk ", and the traditional interpretation was that the kingdom originated along the frontier between the Welsh and the Anglo-Saxon invaders, although P. Hunter Blair has argued an alternative interpretation that they emerged along the frontier between the Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria and the inhabitants of the River Trent valley.

Relics found at a tumulus in Chadderton Fold date from the Early Middle Ages, probably from the early period of Anglo-Saxon England, when Angles settled in the area and Chadderton emerged as a manor of the hundred of Salford.

The Anglo-Saxon authorities struggled to deal with the bloodfeuds between families that emerged following violent killings, attempting to use a system of weregild, a payment of blood money, as a way of providing an alternative to long-running vendettas.

The history of Brewood really begins with the Anglo-Saxon settlement, when it emerged as a village within Mercia.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a battle was fought at Otford in 776, and although the outcome was not recorded, the fact that Kent seems to have remained independent for several years afterward suggests that Ecgberht was victorious.

The victorious Cnut divided England into four great provinces: Wessex, East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria each of which he eventually placed under the control of an earl ( a title new to the English, replacing the Anglo-Saxon " ealdorman ").

In Anglo-Saxon paganism, Rheda ( Latinized from Old English * Hrêðe or * Hrêða, possibly meaning " the famous " or " the victorious ") is a goddess connected with the month '" Rhedmonth "' ( from Old English * Hrēþmōnaþ ).

The 12th century chronicler Henry of Huntingdon produced an enhanced version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle that included 514 as the date of Ælle's death, but this is not secure.

Besides the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the medieval writers William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth used his works as sources and inspirations.

Æthelstan's campaign is reported by in brief by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and later chroniclers such as John of Worcester, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Symeon of Durham add detail to that bald account.

( In the 12th century writings of Henry of Huntingdon the kingdom was defined as one of the Heptarchy of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

The Kingdom of the East Angles, formed about the year 520 by the merging of the North and the South Folk ( Angles who had settled in the former lands of the Iceni during the previous century ), was one of the seven Anglo-Saxon heptarchy kingdoms ( as defined in the 12th century writings of Henry of Huntingdon ).

Æthelstan's campaign is reported in brief by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and later chroniclers such as John of Worcester, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Symeon of Durham add detail to that bald account.

Henry of Huntingdon, a 12th-century historian who had access to versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle now lost, believed that Mercians had been the victors in a " terrible battle ", and remarks upon Wulfhere having inherited " the valour of his father and grandfather ".

Waltheof ( 1050 – 31 May 1076 ), 1st Earl of the Honour of Huntingdon and Northampton and last of the Anglo-Saxon earls was the only English aristocrat to be executed during the reign of William I.

Maud was the daughter of the Waltheof, the Anglo-Saxon Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, and his Norman wife Judith of Lens.

Besides the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the medieval writers William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth used his works as sources and inspirations.

The majority of English / Anglo-Saxon history is compiled from the works of Henry of Huntingdon and William of Malmesbury, and the post-Conquest portions are translated from numerous sources densely interwoven with original text.

Henry of Huntingdon ( a medieval historian ) conceived the idea of the Heptarchy, which consisted of the seven principal Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Scholars disagree about the various, too often contradictory, accounts of his life given in sources from his era of history, such as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum, and the Heimskringla, a 13th-century work by Icelandic author Snorri Sturluson.

Livingston identified at least fifty-three medieval sources containing references to the battle, including important accounts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the writings of Anglo-Norman historian William of Malmesbury, the Annals of Clonmacnoise, and Snorri Sturluson's Egils saga, whose antihero, mercenary berserker and skald Egill Skallagrimsson, served as a trusted warrior for Athelstan.

The location of the battle appears in various forms in the sources: Brunanburh ( in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle or the chronicle of John of Worcester, or in accounts derived from them ), Brunandune ( Aethelweard ), Brunnanwerc or Bruneford or Weondune ( Symeon of Durham and accounts derived from him ), Brunefeld or Bruneford ( William of Malmesbury and accounts derived from him ), Duinbrunde ( Scottish traditions ), Brun ( Welsh traditions ), plaines of othlynn ( Annals of Clonmacnoise ), and Vinheithr ( Egil's Saga ), among others.

The miracles worked in Cuthbert's name during the late Anglo-Saxon period were particularly flamboyant, and the Libellus contains engaging accounts of some of these, including the miracle of the three waves ( when Cuthbert turned a portion of the Irish Sea into blood in order to prevent his followers from taking his relics out of England, see Libellus ii. 11 ), the foundation of Durham ( when Cuthbert's body, being moved across England on a cart, refused to be moved, signaling his desire to remain at Durham, see Libellus iii. 1 ), and several picturesque deaths visited upon the enemies of Cuthbert's devotees.

Chronicles contained a range of historical and literary accounts ; one notable example is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which contains various heroic poems inserted throughout.

There was a bridge at or near the village in the 11th century as one is referred to in accounts of the battle of 1066, noted in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript ' C '.

He argues that the book is ‘ a therapeutic history for white ( Anglo-Saxon ) Australians that distorts and distracts ’ and that in denying the reliability of historical evidence of racialized groups, Windschuttle employs a tactic used by historians to discredit historical accounts that do not fit with their presentist morality .’

Historical accounts depict the Danish Axe as the weapon of the warrior elite in this period, such as the Huscarls of Anglo-Saxon England.

Gale Owen-Crocker ( Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Manchester ) in The Four Funerals in Beowulf ( 2000 ) argues that a passage in the poem, commonly known as “ The Lay of the Last Survivor ” ( lines 2247 – 66 ), is an additional funeral.

Amlaíb Cuarán succeeded him and did so with popular support, as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( MS D ) reports that in 941, “ the Northumbrians belied their pledges, and chose Olaf Amlaíb Cuarán from Ireland as their king .” Amlaíb shared the throne with his nephew Ragnald ( Rögnvaldr ), son of Gofraid.

* Abels, Richard ( 1983 ) “ The Council of Whitby: a study in early Anglo-Saxon politics ”, in: The Journal of British Studies ; 23. 1 ( 1983 ), pp. 1 – 25.

The name Fetcham is derived from the Anglo-Saxon “ Fecca ’ s ham ”-Fecca's settlement.

The name of Harborough is likely to derive from the Anglo-Saxon “ haefera-beorg ” or oat hill.

The earliest written reference to the town is in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, where it is spelled Rumcofan, literally “ a wide cove or bay ”.

He expressly stated that “ if he ever had a political leader, his leader was John Bright, not Mr Gladstone .” Speaking in 1886, he referred to his " standing by the side of John Bright against the dismemberment of the great Anglo-Saxon community of the West, as I now stand against the dismemberment of the great Anglo-Saxon community of the East .” These words form the key to his views of the future of the British Empire.

Like many poems of the Anglo-Saxon period, “ Dream of the Rood ” exhibits many Christian and pre-Christian images, but in the end is a Christian piece.

This image of Christ as a “ heroic lord ” or “ heroic warrior ” is seen frequently in Anglo-Saxon ( as well as further Germanic ) literature, and follows in line with the theme of understanding Christianity through pre-Christian Germanic tradition.

In this way, “ the poem resolves not only the pagan-Christian tensions within Anglo-Saxon culture but also current doctrinal discussions concerning the nature of Christ, who was both God and man, both human and divine ”.

In The Valor of Ignorance and The Day of the Saxon, Lea viewed American and British struggles for global competition and survival as part of a larger Anglo-Saxon social Darwinist contest between the “ survival of the fittest ” races.

In the third volume of his Deutsche Mythologie, Grimm writes: “ I am more and more convinced that Holda can be nothing but an epithet of the mild and ‘ gracious ’ Fricka ; and Berhta, the shining, is identical with her too .” In Lower Saxony, the parts assigned to Frau Holle are played by fru Freke corresponding to Anglo-Saxon Fricg, Old High German Frikka, Frikkia, Old Norse Frigg.

“ Anglo-Saxon Literature .” Dictionary of the Middle Ages.

* Klinck, Anne L. “ Seafarer .” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England.

The Old English term rowan, used in Beowulf, is not translated as “ swim ” in any other Anglo-Saxon poetry.

Pre-conquest society can be described as “ Anglo-Scandinavian ” carrying a cultural continuity from a mixing of Viking and Anglo-Saxon traditions.

The original Anglo-Saxon word from which Swilly is derived means “ farmland .” Before the Second World War much of the locality of what is now North Prospect and the western edge of Beacon Park was known as Swilly.

Referred to in the Domesday Book as “ Bedefunde ”, the name is thought to be derived from Anglo-Saxon Bedfunta