Anglo-Saxon lyre, also known as the Germanic lyre, a Rotta, or the Viking lyre, is a large plucked and strummed lyre that was played in Anglo-Saxon England...

Isles gue and Wales crwth England: Anglo-Saxon Lyre, giga , rote or crowd Continental Europe: Germanic or Anglo-Saxon lyre (hearpe), rotte or crotte Estonia:...

Germanic peoples, who eventually developed a common cultural identity as Anglo-Saxons, changed the language and culture of most of what became England from...

The Prittlewell royal Anglo-Saxon burial or Prittlewell princely burial is a high-status Anglo-Saxon burial mound which was excavated at Prittlewell, north...

contain a lyre similar to that found at Sutton Hoo. Twelve of the graves were those of children aged under 12 years. No evidence for an Anglo-Saxon settlement...

Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Archaeologists have been...

time show David with a medieval lyre rather than a harp. Harp and cythara Lyre, harp and hourglass drum. Anglo-Saxon Lyre, hourglass drum, harp. Man holding...

showed that this was a pair of bird-headed plaques from an Anglo-Saxon lyre comparable to the lyre found at Sutton Hoo. Several bone draughtsmen. These were...

of the lyre, which was regarded as a rustic, or folk instrument, appropriate for teaching music to beginners. As opposed to the simpler lyre, the cithara...

The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. It was buried around the years c...

Anglo-Saxon cemeteries have been found in England, Wales and Scotland. The burial sites date primarily from the fifth century to the seventh century AD...

and astronomer. Self-taught, he discovered and excavated a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in 1939, which has come to be called "one of...

thrymsa (Old English: þrymsa) was a gold coin minted in seventh-century Anglo-Saxon England. It originated as a copy of Merovingian tremisses and earlier...

JSTOR 25505137. "Wíg". Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Retrieved 23 October 2014. "Láf". Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Retrieved 23 October...

campaign of Anglo-Saxon resistance in the West Midlands, with the assistance of a number of Welsh princes (who had lately been allies of the Anglo-Saxon kings)...

stringed instruments of medieval and Renaissance Europe, including not only the lyre and harp but also necked, string instruments. In fact, unless a medieval...

Sutton Hoo purse-lid is one of the major objects excavated from the Anglo-Saxon royal burial-ground at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England. The site contains...

porch) which holds some examples of books from the abbey library. The Anglo-Saxon charters of Malmesbury, though extended by forgeries and improvements...

his lyre (which has also been described as a harp) with him, in order to play it when they rested from work. According to legend, he hung the lyre on the...

they can be situated within a wider tradition of 'speaking objects' in Anglo-Saxon culture and have much in common with poems such as The Dream of the Rood...

A, s.a. 855" means the entry for the year 855 in manuscript A of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. sub cruce lumen The Light Under the Cross Motto of the University...

into the Anglo-Saxon language of their subjects (see Old English) and influenced it, helping (along with the Norse language of the earlier Anglo-Norse settlers...

Insular art or the Hiberno-Saxon style, from the 6th to 9th centuries. The fusion of pre-Christian Celtic and Anglo-Saxon metalworking styles, applied...

and Felixstowe is one of the largest container ports in Europe. The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Suffolk, and East Anglia generally, occurred on a large...

strung from horsehair. The instruments apparently spread south to the Anglo Saxons who commonly used gut strings and then west to the Gaels of the Highlands...

ISBN 0-19-866212-2. OCLC 59376677. Boenig, Robert (April 1996). "The Anglo Saxon Harp". Spectrum. Vol. 71, no. 2. pp. 290–320. doi:10.2307/2865415. JSTOR 2865415...

anything that Anglo-Saxons associated with Britons, including other non-Germanic territories in Britain (e.g. Cornwall) and places in Anglo-Saxon territory...

Fakeer of Jungheera, takes on the form of a long narrative poem. In The Anglo-Saxon and the Hindu (1854), an essay in florid, even purple, prose, are references...

Byzantine metalwork, from where it passed to Russia. It is very common in Anglo-Saxon metalwork, with examples including the Tassilo Chalice, Strickland Brooch...

mythology) Armor of Beowulf, a mail shirt made by Wayland the Smith. (Anglo-Saxon mythology) Armor of Örvar-Oddr, an impenetrable "silken mailcoat". (Norse...