The ancient runes of an inscribed silver armband found in ... into parts of Scotland in 800 A.D. Prior to 900 A.D., Galloway ...

Known as 'Picti' by the Romans, meaning 'Painted Ones' in Latin, these northern tribes constituted the largest kingdom in Dark ... For the Angles of Northumbria it was simply a disaster - ending ...

By the ninth century, the country was divided into four kingdoms - Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia and Wessex. Wessex was the only one of these kingdoms to survive the Viking invasions.

He reigned over Northumbria for just 10 years before he was overthrown, possibly by his own son, and made to spend the rest of his life in exile in the rival kingdom of Mercia. He lived in the ...