they paid money to the dead person's relatives. The idea was to stop long fights or 'blood feuds' between families by making them pay money instead. Anglo-Saxon history tells of many Viking raids.

Small decorative details on an iconic helmet belonging to “Britain’s Tutankhamen” could revise our understanding of early ...

"Anglo-Saxon coin hoards are relatively rare," Bliss ... did not return to retrieve them and the experts assumed that the ...

Archaeologists have made an astonishing discovery in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in rural Kent ... indicating an oath to a king or person of high status. “It’s really incredible, in the top ...