Mount Badon: Arthur’s Greatest Victory
The Saxons had been raging around the countryside for years. The Britons had been fighting them off as best they could, but the hordes...
Mount Badon: The Importance of the High Ground
It doesn’t really matter what Mount Badon really was for the purposes of this discussion. Rather, it matters what it was.
Mount Badon was a...
Badon Hill: The Importance of Defending Bath
One of the chief mysteries of the story of King Arthur is where the famous Battle of Badon Hill was. Was it at Badon?...
Aelle: First of the Great Saxon Kings
When the dust settled after the Battle of Badon Hill, the Saxon migrations had stopped but the Saxon presence in Britain had not evaporated.
The...
Overlord: Saxons Learn from Their Enemies
With the accession of Aelle to the position of “overlord” (for lack of a better word) of the Germanic lands in Britain, the idea...
Gildas: The Monk Who Began the Historical View
With the coming of the Battle of Badon Hill we have the first of our “official” historical sources for the period of Arthur’s life:...
Liber Pontificalis, Part 2
The Liber Pontificalis is the only real biographical information available for the earliest popes of the Roman Catholic Church. This article, part 2 of...
Liber Pontificalis, Part 1
The Liber Pontificalis is the only real biographical information available for the earliest popes of the Roman Catholic Church. In this article (part 1...
Paulinus: Deliverer of Northumbria
How a Marriage Brought Christianity to Northumbria
The giant kingdom of Northumbria had been getting by just fine on paganism for hundreds of years. Gods...
Sutton Hoo: Treasure Trove of Saxon Culture
At last we come to the famous Sutton Hoo burial site. Discovered in 1939, this burial site contains a wealth of information about Anglo-Saxon...