The Vikings, like the Anglo-Saxons, fought on foot (not horseback ... Those who could not run fast enough were killed and their helmets, weapons and armour were stolen. The Vikings did not ...

Photograph by British Museum/Scala, Florence The collection of 263 objects included weapons ... that the settlement was not Viking, as first assumed, but Anglo-Saxon. The significance of Sutton ...

dumps of weapons, even a magnificent silver dinner service—all from British, Roman, or Viking times—have been found in the soil. In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund has killed ...

A tiny Sutton Hoo-era gold and garnet mount for an Anglo-Saxon warrior's sword belt has been found ... The sagas retell stories from the Viking era, but were written hundreds of years after ...