A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons

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A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons\nby Henrietta Leyser\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Henrietta Leyser\nTitle: A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: European history: medieval period, middle ages\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9781780765990\nISBN-10: 1780765991\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n'Here lies our leader all cut down, the valiant man in the dust.' The elegiac words of the \""Battle of Maldon\"", an epic poem written to celebrate the bravery of an English army defeated by Viking raiders in 991, emerge from a diverse literature - including \""Beowulf\"" and \""Bede's Ecclesiastical History\"" - produced by the people known as the Anglo-Saxons: Germanic tribes who migrated to Britain from Lower Saxon.