Romancing the Anglo-Saxon Past

When the Romans withdrew from Great Britain, they left a vacuum that various people from the continent rushed to fill. Among them were the Anglo-Saxons, who pushed aside the native people and became the forerunners of what we think of as “English.” How well did the Angles and Saxons get along and what kind of religion and material culture did they have? And once the Vikings came along, what effect did they have on what would become England? In the next hour of University of the Air, Jack Niles will tell us about The Romancing of the Anglo-Saxons, separating truth from fiction in our image of the Anglo-Saxons.