Quotes About Anglo-Saxon

Tradition attributes to St. Boniface, the Anglo-Saxon missionary who founded monasteries in Germany in the eighth century, the importation to the continent of cryptographic puzzles based on a dots-for-vowels system.

Virtue and absolute power may strike the Anglo-Saxon mind as terms which it is impossible to harmonize.

It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged.

Solitude is an Anglo-Saxon concept.

As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging.

In England, as on the Continent, two stages of invasion are distinguished; the first, from about 787 to 855, a purely destructive one of plunder and rapine; the second, of occupation.

period in which the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms came into being.

is often described as the finest illustrated manuscript of the entire Anglo-Saxon era.

Mercia was the last of the major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to emerge.

run through by a spear-wielding St Edmund,

He was, in the words of one modern historian, 'the last great pagan king of Anglo-Saxon England'.

this year,' says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 794, 'Offa, king of the Mercians, had Æthelberht beheaded.

but the immediate prospect of being elevated above his Anglo-Saxon peers.

Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, and there Æthelfrith was slain.

twenty years since the arrival of the great heathen army that had destroyed three of the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Remarkably, this Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (as it was later known) was written not in Latin, as was the practice in virtually every other literate corner of Europe, but in the everyday language that people spoke. By the end of the tenth century, this language had a name for the new state: it was 'the land of the Angles', Engla lond.4

As Bede explains in his book The Reckoning of Time,

In 686 Cædwalla invaded the Isle of Wight,

all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms had now accepted the faith of Christ.

According to Bede, on one occasion Paulinus spent more than a month at Yeavering,

Most of the babies of the period were conceived in Model T Fords and not a few were born in them. The theory of the Anglo Saxon home became so warped that it never quite recovered.

whom one would care to share a desert island. My subjects represent a range of nationalities, but are chiefly Anglo-Saxon, for this is my own culture. Three rose to lead large forces, most did not. This is a study of fighters, not commanders.

Sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, are experts in generalities. When confrontedy by the bull's horns of a concrete case, they all look like Anglo-Saxon bullfighters.

It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The Battle of Maldon' where the most famous Saxon or English cry has been rendered - 'Courage must be the firmer, heart the bolder, spirit must be the greater, as our strength grows less'. That combination of bravery and fatalism, endurance and understatement, is the defining mood of Arhurian legend.