A bitter feud between the Angles and Frisians begins with a raid on Wederby. Hengest, a young dreng, takes revenge and is exiled for it. He enters service with the Half-Danes, who are also feuding with the Frisians, but doing their best to build bridges. However, at a Yuletide feast in Finnesburh in the year 449, all hell breaks loose.

"I'll do anything," she said, smiling seductively. "Anything," she emphasised the word, "if you will plead with Vortigern, and persuade him to come back to me."Bishop Germanus is sent to Britannia to fight heresy and heathenism. But powerful forces are ranged against him, the most irresistible being Hengest's daughter, Rowena, who tries to break his power by seducing him.

"We did not come to plunder, but to help. We heard your king needs warriors. We will break your foes and cast them back into the sea. We bring swords."The second volume of the Englaland Pentalogy tells the dramatic story of Hengest and Horsa, whose epoch-making landing in Britain marks the arrival of the first Anglo-Saxons and the birth of what would become Englaland.

Hrothgar is best known from the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Beowulf, where he appears in a background role as the king whose hall is attacked by the troll, Grendel. This book aims to put Hrothgar in the foreground. His story is fleshed out with information from other sources, particularly the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus. Other famous figures from Nordic legend appear in Hrothgar s story, some of them briefly alluded to in Beowulf, making this book something like...

The story of Rouwennë, Hengest's daughter. As a tomboyish girl, fond of stories of shieldmaidens, she gets involved in a Viking raid led by her older brother. The raid goes wrong and her stepmother tries to teach her that her 'womanly weapons' have more power. She uses those weapons to bring down two kings of Britannia and to win her lover—a handsome dreng named Wulf.

Egbert was king of Wessex from c. 770 to 839. His achievement is that he brought about the unification of England under the house of Wessex, and paved the way for the successes of Alfred the Great (his grandson). Historical information is thin on the ground, so I have elaborated many scenes from my own imagination, hoping to bring to life this underappreciated Anglo-Saxon monarch.

Want to go back to the stirring times of the Middle Ages? In this interactive poem, you can. You play the part of Eubulo, a squire, who takes up service with William de Warenne at Conisbrough Castle and falls in love with Lady Alice, wife of the powerful Earl of Lancaster -- trouble follows, lots of it, involving a siege, a flight through Sherwood Forest and an insurrection against the authority of the king. The events of the poem are based on what actually happened in the years around 131...

"The white dragon is the symbol of the incomers – Hengest and his Angle hosts. They seek to claim this land as their own, to carve kingdoms from its heart. The red dragon is the spirit of the native Britons, the blood of your people, resisting."When Vortigern's tower crumbles and two dragons rise from the depths—one red, one white—only Merlin can uncover their meaning. Summoned to make sense of the omen, he reveals a vision of Britain's fate: the Red Dragon of the Britons ...

When Waldere escapes from Attila with Hildegyth, his bride-to-be, Attila sends 11 warriors after him. But Waldere, a master of Nordic martial arts, beats nine of them in single combat with the help of the legendary sword, Mimming. But can he, exhausted as he is, beat off the remaining two assailants?Waldere was admired by the Anglo-Saxons as the ultimate warrior, and the epic that bears his name stood on equal terms with the only surviving Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf, though...

This book is the third in a series of story collections about the author's home town, Conisbrough. The stories range from ancient times to the mid-twentieth century, including the experiences of a Conisbrough blacksmith at the battle of Lincoln, a tournament at Pontefract, in which the Sir John Eland, Constable of Conisbrough Castle, wins the prize, and the experiences of a Conisbrough miner during the 'Bag Muck' strike.

These stories of old Conisbrough begin with the legend of the Holy Well in pre-Roman times and go on to include England's founding father, Hengest fighting his last battle at Maes Belli (near Mexborough), the siege of Conisbrough Castle in 1317 and Robin Hood in Barnsdale Forest. Stories from more recent times include the author's reminiscences of Station Road School and Conisbrough Brickyard, and more recently still, of a blind date.

Exiled after a bitter battle in Finnsburgh, the Angle thegn, Hengest, turns his three war keels to Britannia. All he wants is land and a mead hall of his own, but he ends up winning a country - a country that will later be named England.The original Saga of Hengest is lost, except for a tantalising fragment known as the Freswael, which tells of that battle in Finnesburgh. The rest of the saga has been reconstructed from other, later, sources, mainly Layamon's ...