Hints and tips:
...This goes all the way back to, but by no means began with, the Anglo-Saxons, who reserved a special name for the sea: hron-rād or whale road....
...Glinting in the setting sun stands King Raedwald, whose Anglo-Saxon burial chamber Brown uncovered, wearing a fur cape, gilded sword, red and gold shield and magnificent dragon helmet....
...We are going to apply a global rule that is based on the Anglo-Saxon versus looser, lower European standards,” he told the Financial Times....
...Britain was at its most liberal and “Anglo-Saxon” inside the European project. A paradox, he says, Leavers can chew over at their leisure....
...Back home, I reached for Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography, published at the turn of the millennium....
...The success of newly minted missionaries in Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England demonstrated Christianity’s capacity to adapt to new circumstances....
...Though the trial by blood had settled the matter at the Battle of Hastings, the Norman conqueror William insisted on a coronation on Christmas Day at the still more momentous foundation of the Abbey of St Peter...
...“Régis was closer to the Anglo-Saxon approach, he was a lot more matter-of-fact”. Schultz was born in the Alsace region on the French-German border....
...Twentieth-century social scientists used to say that Anglo-Saxon culture was shaped by a sense of personal guilt, unlike other cultures, which were defined by community shame....
...It was like a realisation of all those ubi sunt Anglo Saxon poems, except rather than mourning our isolation we were celebrating it. The next day we went exploring....
...The Stone Tape, first broadcast in 1972, concerns a group of scientists experimenting with new recording media that start to pick up awful broadcasts from the Saxon foundations of the house in which they...
...In 2002, he tells me, their show Shockheaded Peter, adapted from the terrifying children’s book by Heinrich Hoffmann, won an Olivier Award for best entertainment — it had been nominated in eight categories...
...She has done so with wall panels and doors in Cartier and Guerlain boutiques, and collaborations with designers such as Peter Marino and Cristina Celestino....
...In the villages, the churches are ecclesiastic fortresses among the old Saxon houses, as if they feared the Mongols might return at any moment to interrupt Sunday mass....
...This is where Hayward delivers his final chant, “Wulstane presul inclite”, in honour of the Anglo-Saxon saints, and I feel the ghosts of the distant past stirring in my pilgrim bones....
...In this bit of the story, Derrida, the subject of Peter Salmon’s biography, An Event, Perhaps, is one of the key figures....
...“Saxon hoard is the holy grail of treasure-hunting,” says Lance. “Well actually, the Holy Grail is the holy grail of treasure-hunting,” replies Andy. They’re funny, these guys....
...Instead of the present federalism by stealth, he would like to see a written constitution that would revive representative institutions in England-outside-London — a return, if you like, of the Anglo-Saxon...
...Though it is not clear who built the causeway — it’s been said that a pious Saxon king may have commissioned it, the better to reach the chapel there — a ghostly Roman centurion may sometimes be seen pacing...
...“It is unique and highly unlikely we would find something like that again,” says Peter Reavill, the Shropshire and Herefordshire finds liaison officer, to whom the find was reported....
...Anglo-Saxon culture tends to prize individualism, not the type of collectivism that has often been valued in Asia....
...She also tips a hat to lesser-known authors, including AL Snijders and Peter Bichsel, both of whose “very brief” stories she has translated....
...The musks are especially happy as their roots run down into layers of Saxon shit. Beans, carrots and cabbages grow profusely inside the walls without disruption from the likes of Peter Rabbit....
...Peter Blake, the pop artist who put Carroll on the cover of the Sgt Pepper album and later retreated to the countryside as a founder of the Ruralists, a group devoted to traditionalism in art, contributes...
...Monolingual Anglo-Saxons will lack part of the rich cultural and complex communications skills that form a natural part of a multilingual person’s armoury....
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