Excuse me. Yes, you… would you like to learn about the Vikings? Great! Well let’s start at the beginning… The Vikings lived over 1000 years ago, but they don’t look that old to me, what’s your secret?
Unit 3 focuses on the history topic 'The Anglo-Saxons' - specifically the life of Alfred the Great. Dance expert Claire Pring works with a mixed group of Year 3 / 4 pupils and their teacher, to create ...
In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Medieval History series, we examine why the Anglo-Saxons consistently fell to the invading Vikings. Disunity among Saxon kingdoms, poor coordination, and ...
The Old Norse spoken by the Vikings was, in many ways, very similar to the Old English of the Anglo-Saxons. Both languages are from the same Germanic family and could be considered as distant but ...
Danish Vikings settled in Norwich from the 880s AD. By 1000 Norwich was a mixture of Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians, as part of a newly unified England. In the reign of Ethelred the Unready, England ...