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I love it when one of my friends from my years in academia -- in this case Francesca Tinti -- makes a big discovery. Makes me wish I hadn't retired from doing academic scholarship.... #AngloSaxon #OldEnglish #Medieval

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/anglo-saxon-expats-in-romes-little-england

https://www.europesays.com/3286262/ Anglo-Saxon coins found near the Vatican point to a thriving English community in early medieval Rome #AncientNumismatics #AngloSaxon #CatholicChurch #medieval #StatoDellaCittàDelVaticano #StatusCivitatisVaticanae #Vatican #VaticanCity #VaticanCityState #Vaticano

Ancient Cross at Eyam, Derbyshire, 1905 - Scott Russell Postcard

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/ancient-cross-at-eyam-derbyshire-1905-scott-russell-postcard-224639782.htm

#Eyam #AncientCrosses #AngloSaxon

Something new (to me) I learnt this morning

The word Oyez (beloved of Town Criers in England) is the second-person plural imperative of the Anglo-Norman verb Ouïr, to hear, translating as Hear ye!

#Language #AngloSaxon

The #CoronationStone, #kingstonuponthames

The Grade I listed Coronation Stone is an ancient sarsen stone block, believed to have been the site of the coronation of seven Anglo-Saxon kings, Æthelstan (in 925), Eadred (946) and Æthelred the Unready (979). Edward the Elder, Edmund I, Eadwig and Edward the Martyr are also thought to have been consecrated in the town.
In 1730, it was recovered from the chapel of the collapsed Church of St Mary and placed in the market square.

#anglosaxon #history

The #BayeuxTapestry may be back in England, but it is a Norman artwork. For #AngloSaxon voices, we need to look elsewhere.

⌛️ Last chance to read this article for free

https://buff.ly/CI0LHEG

FensterFreitag, Window behind the altar in St Michaels church, St Albans - an astonishing Anglo-Saxon building.
Apologies for the leaning picture, not sure what went wrong there. 😞
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #FönsterFredag #FenêtreVendredi #StMichaelsChurch #StAlbans #Church #Architecture #AngloSaxon #History #UK

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1183349/ Macron and King Charles hail UK-France ties at Bayeux Tapestry viewing #1066 #AngloSaxon #Britain #British #Burnham #CharlesIII #EmmanuelMacron #EmmanuelMacron's #England #European #France #french #GreatBritain #july #July2025 #KingHarold'sAngloSaxon #london #Macron #norman #NorthernIreland #QueenCamilla #Relations #Saxon #Scotland #UK #Ukraine #UnitedKingdom #Wales #wednesday #William

https://www.europesays.com/people/212129/ Macron and King Charles hail UK-France ties at Bayeux Tapestry viewing #1066 #AngloSaxon #british #Burnham #CharlesIII #EmmanuelMacron #EmmanuelMacron's #England #european #France #French #july #July2025 #KingHarold'sAngloSaxon #London #macron #Norman #QueenCamilla #relations #Saxon #Ukraine #wednesday #William

https://www.europesays.com/dk/157536/ ‘Biggest surprise of my life’: Homeowner discovers Denmark’s largest Viking Age silver hoard in their backyard #AngloSaxon #Danmark #Denmark #Future #Islamic #NorthJutlandMuseums #Sarauw #VikingAge #VikingAgeDenmark

https://www.europesays.com/3227901/ ‘Biggest surprise of my life’: Homeowner discovers Denmark’s largest Viking Age silver hoard in their backyard #AngloSaxon #Danmark #denmark #future #Islamic #NorthJutlandMuseums #Sarauw #VikingAge #VikingAgeDenmark

Silent Sunday
St Michaels church in St Albans, UK, often called "the most significant surviving Anglo-Saxon building in the county".
#SilentSunday #StMichaelsChurch #StAlbans #Church #History #Architecture #Hertfordshire #UK #AngloSaxon

Edwin Morgan died #OnThisDay, 19 August, 2010. “Riddle”, the final poem of Morgan’s final collection, 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴 (Mariscat, 2010), is a translation of one of the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book riddles, itself a translation of a Latin original by the poet Aldhelm (c639–709 CE)

#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #translation #riddle #AngloSaxon #medieval

Its Wednesday (Woden's Day) my dudes
#Woden #Pagan #AngloSaxon #English #Blod #Blodsong #Blessing

You look up research on decreasing alcohol use and suddenly .... What is this "Anglo-Saxon Countries," mate? Weren't they around in the 9th and 10th centuries? Especially including Ireland, I'd think they'd have something to say about that. #europe #anglosaxon

Phantom Time Hypothesis Theory

This is a theory proposed in 1991 by German historian & publisher Heribert Illig. The hypothesis claims a huge chunk of the Early Middle Ages never happened. According to Illig, we’re not living in the year 2026, but rather around 1729.

It hypothesizes a conspiracy by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III & Pope Sylvester II to fabricate the Anno Domini dating system retroactively, to place them at the special year 1000, & to rewrite history to legitimize Otto’s claim to the Holy Roman Empire.

Illig believed that this was achieved through the alteration, misrepresentation & forgery of documentary & physical evidence. According to this scenario, the entire Carolingian period, including the figure of Charlemagne, is a hoax with a “phantom time” of 297 years (614-911 AD) added to the Early Middle Ages.

Illig’s claims include:

• Holy Roman Emperor Otto III desperately wanted to reign during the monumental year of 1,000 AD, believing it would solidify his divine right & align with Christian eschatological milestones.
• Pope Sylvester II had the theological authority & administrative reach to help alter the calendar.
• Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII & the Eastern Roman Empire allegedly assisted in fabricating backstories, genealogies, & documents to legitimize the new timeline & secure political alliances.
• There’s a scarcity of archaeological evidence that can be reliably dated to 614-911 AD.
• Radiometry (measuring electromagnetic radiation) & dendrochronology (tree ring dating) are inaccurate dating methods.
• Medieval historians rely too much on (older) written sources.
• The Romanesque architecture in the 10th century Western Europe suggests that the Roman era wasn’t as long as conventionally thought.
• At the time of the intro of the Gregorian Calendar in 1582 AD, there should’ve been a discrepancy of 13 days between the Julian Calendar & the real (or tropical) calendar. When the astronomers & mathematicians needed to be adjusted by only 10 days.

By inventing nearly 3 centuries of history, these rulers could fabricate a glorious, heroic past to legitimize Otto III’s own imperial ambitions. Creating the myth of Charlemagne as the ultimate Christian King. From this, Illig concludes that the AD era had counted roughly 3 centuries that never existed.

Illig based his hypothesis on a few distinct anomalies in the archaeological & textual record:

• The Gregorian Calendar Mathematical Glitch
  • Illig’s primary argument stems from the calendar reform of 1582. When Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian Calendar to replace the Julian Calendar, the calendar had drifted out of sync with the solar year. The Julian year was slightly too long, drifting by about 1 full day every 128 years. By 1582, the calendar should have drifted by approximately 13 days. However, Pope Gregory’s astronomers only shifted the calendar by 10 days. Illig argued that this 3-day discrepancy mathematically proves that roughly 300 years never actually passed to cause that extra drift.
• The Scarcity of Archaeological Evidence
  • The Early Middle Ages have long been colloquially known as a period of archaeological scarcity, because the period simply didn’t happen. He claimed that the Romanesque architecture of the High Middle Ages seemed to pop up too suddenly. Suggesting it directly followed late Roman architecture without a 300-year gap.
• Forged Documents
  • It’s a well-known fact among medieval historians that the Middle Ages were rife with forged documents, like the famous Donation of Constantine. Illig weaponized this fact, arguing that if so many medieval charters, land grants, & Chronicles were proven fakes. Then the entirety of the era’s documentation could be a coordinated forgery.

Here’s the opposition’s evidence:

• Astronomy Doesn’t Lie
  • Pliny the Elder recorded a solar eclipse in 59 AD.
  • Byzantine emperor/astronomer Heraclius recorded a solar eclipse in 610 AD, right before the “phantom” era.
  • Independent observations from Tang Dynasty China, Islamic astronomers, & Mayan astronomers record celestial events that perfectly match the traditional European timeline. If 300 years were missing, every single eclipse recorded before the 10th century would be misaligned by 3 centuries when calculated backward using modern orbital mechanics. They’re not.
• Dendrochronology (Tree-Ring Dating)
  • Dendrochronology allows scientists to date wooden artifacts & structures with absolute precision by matching the patterns of annual tree growth rings. Organizations like the Hohenheim University in Germany have constructed a continuous, unbroken tree-ring chronology for Central Europe that stretches back over 10,000 years. There’s no “gap” or missing 300 years in the oak trees of Europe. The rings form a continuous timeline straight through the Early Middle Ages.
• Global Interconnectedness
  • For Illig’s theory to work, the conspiracy would have to extend far beyond the Holy Roman Empire & the Papacy. You would have to believe that the Islamic Umayyad & Abbasid Caliphates, the Tang Dynasty in China, the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in Britain, & the Maya civilization in Mesoamerica all colluded to invent 3 centuries of fake leaders, wars, literature, & internal history at the exact time, matching Otto’s fabrications perfectly.

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Cnut the Danish prince has conquered England. He has an heir, Harald Harefoot, by his first wife. But he divorced her and married Aethelred's widow, Emma. She doesn't care about Alfred and Edward: she and Cnut want their new son Harthacnut to rule.

And Cnut was also king of Norway and Denmark, so there are separate claimants up there raising armies. There are powerful Earls who can tip the balance of power. There are betrayals and reversals. It needs a TV series!

#history #AngloSaxon #Viking

I have been slowly listening my way through the wonderful "History of England Podcast" (https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk) and have reached the death of Cnut in 1035. The succession is so dramatic and full of colourful characters and I knew nothing about this period:

Previous Anglo-Saxon king, Edmund Ironside, has an heir in exile in Hungary. The king before him, Aethelred, has two heirs by Emma in exile in Normandy: Alfred and Edward the Confessor.

🧵

#history #AngloSaxon #Viking

https://www.europesays.com/videos/62743/ Archaeologists from Reading University dig at an Anglo-Saxon site | ITV Meridian (Thames Valley) #AngloSaxon #Archaeologists #CommonwealthGames #CookhamAbbey #council #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #itvmeridian #ITVNews #LocalGovernment #Reading #ReadingUniversity #ThamesValley

An English King's Bones Were Moved Over Centuries and Eventually Lost. One Researcher Claims He Discovered Their Location—Under a Parking Lot
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/an-english-kings-bones-were-moved-over-centuries-and-eventually-lost-one-researcher-claims-he-discovered-their-location-under-a-parking-lot-180989121/
Alfred the Great defended Wessex from the Vikings. Researchers have been searching for his remains for years after their resting place in an abbey was disturbed
#science #archaeology #anglosaxon

Alfred the Great defended Wessex from the Vikings. Researchers have been searching for his remains for years after their resting place in an abbey was disturbed #science #archaeology #anglosaxon

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/an-english-kings-bones-were-moved-over-centuries-and-eventually-lost-one-researcher-claims-he-discovered-their-location-under-a-parking-lot-180989121/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into FLIPBOARD EXCHANGE FEED 🗞️ @flipboard-exchange-feed-Econopass

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0257-harrowing-and-sowing/

1840s reproduction from the Bayeux Tapestry. Text is actually about Anglo-Saxon farming _before_ the Conquest, and uses lfriċ’s desc. of an enslaved ploughman and his boy, says he works hard, but omits the essential but unfashionable (1840s) fact he was a slave.

Slavery was common before 1066, mostly died out by the end of the 12th C; the church was the main holdout.

#vintageEngraving #fobo #angloSaxon #slavery #england #history #GIMP

Wolves, Dragons and Devil Whales: The Strange Animal World of  England 

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/07/04/wolves-dragons-and-devil-whales-the-strange-animal-world-of-england/

The Harpole Bed Burial : A Free Zoom talk with Dr Claire Finn of Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA)
Wed 15 Jul 2026, 1930 BST
Free Tickets https://www.ticketsource.com/fostp
Named after the nearby village of Harpole, #Northamptonshire it was first discovered in 2022 during archaeological works ahead of a housing development. It is believed to be one of the most significant early-medieval female burials ever uncovered in Britain. #AngloSaxon #archaeology #histodons

Harold really thought he had more time than that

https://piefed.social/c/tenforward/p/2170940/harold-really-thought-he-had-more-time-than-that

Harold really thought he had more time than that

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2170939/harold-really-thought-he-had-more-time-than-that

Hwæt! The first victim of propaganda? Grendel. I bet the only reason he attacked Heorot was because King Hroðgar & his #AngloSaxon warrior-tech-bros displaced Grendel and his mum from their own land, then demonised them, just so that they could build an AI data centre.

#Beowulf #OldEnglish

Multi – Culted

https://vianegativa6.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/multi-culted/

The Saxons were not invaders — they were invited to Britain

https://medium.com/@sensmedia.srl/the-saxons-were-not-invaders-they-were-invited-to-britain-f2cca5e8250c
#history #middleages #romanempire #anglosaxon #england #medievalhistory #englishhistory #vikings

Normans and Anglo-Saxons clash at the Battle of Hastings, England, 1066 AD (Peter Dunn)

https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2121368/normans-and-anglo-saxons-clash-at-the-battle-of-hastings-england-1066-ad-peter-dunn

Ancient burials, Roman well, and Anglo-Saxon house uncovered during A46 Newark bypass excavations

Archaeologists working ahead of the planned A46 Newark Bypass have uncovered traces of human activity stretching back thousands of years. The excavations took place near Newark in Nottinghamshire...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/burials-roman-well-and-anglo-saxon-house-england/

Follow @archaeology

#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #romanempire #anglosaxon

Ear to the Irminsul

https://vianegativa6.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/ear-to-the-irminsul/

Anglo-Saxon Village Fair (Mike White)

https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2107627/anglo-saxon-village-fair-mike-white