These sports kept them fit for work and strong for war. Back to top Was Anglo-Saxon Britain in the 'dark ages'? Some people thought that after Rome, Britain went into a simple and gloomy ‘dark ...
it is an era often referred to as "the Dark Ages". It is thought Cerdic reigned from around 519 to 534 AD. "The main source for Cerdic's reign is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and that kind of record ...
“He is someone who very much fits the Dark Age idea of a successful king ... who won a decisive battle against the invading Anglo-Saxons. “It’s clear that rather than inventing everything ...
Anglo-Saxons began to settle in England in from AD410, and by AD500 were being fiercely resisted, in a period which used to be known as the Dark Ages, but is now called early medieval by historians.