After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

Since this century began, Vikings have been the subject of countless historical documentaries, multiple streaming series and ...

Owner of immensely valuable Viking Age ‘Galloway Hoard’ of silver and gold finally found - Hoard was discovered in 2014 ...

A famed Viking-age silver hoard discovered in Scotland may have belonged to an entire community of people, rather than one ...

The Viking Age hoard, which contains more than 11lbs (5kg ... based on four arm rings inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes. Three of the inscriptions feature Old English name elements, but the fourth and ...

The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age. The hoard “was buried ... “The top layer was a parcel of silver bullion and a rare Anglo-Saxon cross, separated from a lower layer ...

In other Anglo-Saxon writings from the period ... Around the time the Galloway Hoard was buried, the Vikings were raiding monasteries—so maybe this particular religious community hid its ...

Experts believed the coins were Anglo-Saxon and to have been hidden by a Viking. One of them was a double-headed coin, showing two rulers of England. Alfred the Great, who ruled Wessex ...

The Galloway Hoard, discovered in 2014, has been the subject of mystery with theories suggesting it was likely buried by four prosperous owners based on arm rings inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes.