This incredibly rare sword, excavated from an “extraordinary Anglo-Saxon cemetery,” has been ... may indicate an oath made to a king. All evidence suggests that this sword belonged to a ...

These bits of sword here and helmets mark him out as a ... More and more Anglo-Saxon kings and their people became Christians too. This is because they realised that by converting to one God ...

In a practice in northern Europe dating from the Bronze Age through Anglo-Saxon times, swords and other objects ... "bling for warrior companions of the king." Gold, weighing in at more than ...

The silver penny brooch dates to the end of the reign of the last Anglo-Saxon king, says an expert ... gold plate may have been decoration on a sword. The Anglo-Saxons "made the whole thing ...