Saxon runes

The Anglo-Saxons lived in England over 1000 years ago. Their language (Old English) was very different to ours but we still have modern words that come from Old English. Their writing was also very…

Runes

Northumbrian or Anglo Saxon futhork

I had to re-create a lot of names of this table, and even created the last rune, 'neƀal' for the sound 'ƀ' ('v' sound). Old Saxon is a sister-... Old Saxon Rune Table

Dr Rory Naismith writes: Later in June 2014, an important Anglo-Saxon coin is due to be sold at auction by Dix, Noonan and Webb in London. It was discovered in March this year by a metal-detector user who promptly brought his find to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge for identification. There, it was quickly identified as the fourth known penny of Æthelberht II, king of the East Angles: a ruler who was executed by order of Offa, king of the Mercians (757–96), in 794, and who went on to be…

Anglo Saxon runes initials carved into tree

Old English / Anglo-Saxon (Englisc) was the West Germanic language spoken in the area now known as England between the 5th and 11th centuries. Speakers of Old English called their language Englisc, themselves Angle, Angelcynn or Angelfolc and their home Angelcynn or Englaland. (...)

A cavalry mount in the shape of the pagan god Odin, whose horns are topped with eagle heads. Forged out of bronze. Made in the 6th/7th century for a Saxon horseman in England. Found in Blakeney in...