It is only higher education institution in the UK to offer a Viking Studies course but now Nottingham wants to rename an ...

and shreds of wonderful Anglo-Saxon literature have come down to us, despite the destruction of so much by the Normans and by Henry VIII. 'Shakespeare - the best legacy of the Conquest?

The earliest surviving record of the legend of Sir Guy of Warwick is Gui de Warewic, a 13th Century Anglo-Norman poem ... into later poems and prose literature. The 14th Century Middle English ...

But who were the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans and what led to the Battle of Hastings? Here's what you need to know. The Anglo-Saxons are a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

Anglo-Saxon and Norman nobles often were related. When Edward the Confessor, king of England, died in early 1066, the Normans claimed the childless Edward had promised his cousin, the Norman duke ...

and shreds of wonderful Anglo-Saxon literature have come down to us, despite the destruction of so much by the Normans and by Henry VIII. 'Shakespeare - the best legacy of the Conquest?

It encapsulates a famous myth about Anglo-Saxon England ... call this myth the 'Norman Yoke', and it's been an amazingly persistent emotional thread in English literature, art and politics.