There are six songs to learn and seven dramas to explore, including Alfred the Great, Athelstan, the story of Beowulf (told in three episodes) and the end of the Anglo-Saxon dynasty in 1066 at The ...

A storyteller played music on a small harp or a lyre to accompany their stories and poems. Anglo-Saxon jewellers made brooches, beads and gold ornaments. At first, their artwork was pagan ...

A gold- and jewel-encrusted relic with ties to Beowulf and a lost Anglo-Saxon king What it tells us about the past: This musical instrument was found in the 1920s by British archaeologist Sir ...