Brooches were pinned to clothes to make them look nice and to hold them up, like a safety pin. All their stories were told to them by their friends and family. Anglo-Saxons loved tales about brave ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship ... the occult had led her, like many wealthy women of her ...