Sublime

A recent survey suggests that the production of iron, from bloomeries in the Forest of Dean and the Weald of Kent, or through the scavenging and recycling of Roman material, might have formed a valuable bulk cargo traded along the Thames and across the Channel.

one of the main duties of the assembly was to place a check on interpersonal or familial feuds before they got out of hand. Such vendettas could be lethal in small communities, and an honour system in which all slights must be either compensated or avenged required very tight controls; many of the Icelandic saga stories revolve around what can happ

The seven kingdoms that made up the Heptarchy were Northumbria, Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, Kent, Essex and Sussex, a tradition popularized by Henry of Huntingdon in the twelfth century.

The Grágás laws define a clear offence for both men and women wearing clothing or haircuts appropriate to the opposite sex. This not only confirms that there were masculine and feminine norms of personal grooming and appearance, but also that some people evidently contradicted them.