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Within 200 years of their first arrival, the settlement density has been established as an Anglo-Saxon village every 2–5 kilometres (1.2–3.1 miles), in the areas where evidence has been gathered. [225] Given that these settlements are typically of around 50 people, this implies an Anglo-Saxon population in southern and eastern England of ...
The historian Peter Hunter-Blair expounded what is now regarded as the traditional view of the Anglo-Saxon arrival in Britain. [28] He suggested a mass immigration, with the incomers fighting and driving the sub-Roman Britons off their land and into the western extremities of the islands, and into the Breton and Iberian peninsulas. [29]
Territories controlled by the Vikings (red), Anglo-Saxons (yellow) and Celts (green) in the 9th century. The earliest date given for a Viking raid of Britain is 789 when, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Portland was attacked. A more exact report dates from 8 June 793, when the cloister at Lindisfarne was pillaged by foreign seafarers ...
In modern times, the term "Anglo-Saxons" is used by scholars to refer collectively to the Old English speaking groups in Britain. As a compound term, it has the advantage of covering the various English-speaking groups on the one hand, and to avoid possible misunderstandings from using the terms "Saxons" or "Angles" (English), both of which terms could be used either as collectives referring ...
The Anglo-Saxon fyrd or Norman arrière-ban remained an important element of military service and applied to all able-bodied freemen. Similar to the old Anglo-Saxon trinoda necessitas, royal vassals were obligated to contribute to the fortification of royal castles, to repair bridges, and to maintain roads. [105]
The people of Lloegyr were called Lloegyrwys without distinction of ethnicity, the term applying to both Britons and Anglo-Saxons. The modern form of the word is Lloegr (pronounced [ˈɬɔɨɡr̩] or [ˈɬɔiɡr̩]) and it has become generalised through the passage of time to become the Welsh word for "England" as a whole, and not restricted to ...
Reconstructed Anglo-Saxon hall from c. 1000 AD at Wychurst, Kent. The most high-profile of Regia Anglorum's activities is the Wychurst Project. [4] On 3 acres (12,000 m 2) of freeheld land in Kent, the group built a full-scale replica of a defended manorial burgh and the flooded ring ditch and bank surmounted by 220 metres of palisade enclosing an acre of land.
In other artistic areas, including embroidery, the Anglo-Saxon influence remained evident into the twelfth century, and the famous Bayeux Tapestry is an example of older styles being reemployed under the new regime. [164] Stained glass had been introduced into Anglo-Saxon England. Very few examples of glass survive from the Norman period, but ...