A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons (71 page)

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sub-kings/kingdoms
31
,
95
,
102

Suidbert, bishop
124
,
126

Sussex
15–16
,
26–7
,
32

Sutton Hoo
14
,
19
,
26
,
29
,
36
,
114
,
178
,
219

Swein II, king of Denmark
341
,
342

Swein, king of Norway
303
,
314–15

Swein Forkbeard
297
,
298–9
,
303–4
,
305
,
307
,
320

Swein Godwineson
311
,
322–3
,
327
,
328

Symeon of Durham
271
,
336

 

Tacitus
27
,
236

Tamworth
93
,
105
,
107

taxation
296
,
302
,
309
,
312
,
313
,
346

Tetta, abbess of Wimborne
146

thegns
75
,
220
,
228
,
229
,
314

Theodore of Tarsus, archbishop of Canterbury
45–8
,
77–8
,
81
,
82
,
98
,
106
,
123
,
253
,
278

Theodoric the Ostrogoth
210

Thored, earl of Northumbria
292

Thorkell the Tall
300
,
301
,
302–3
,
305
,
308

Thurbrand ‘the Hold’
306

Thuringia
133–5

Thuroldus of Fécamp
248

tolls
114–15

Tostig, Earl of Northumbria
161
,
311
,
322
,
327
,
329
,
330
,
331
,
333–4
,
335
,
336

Tours
172–3

trade, Anglo-Saxon
109
,
113–16
,
178
,
201–2
,
232–3

travellers
158–60

tribute
294
,
297
,
298
,
300
,
301
,
302

Turold of Fécamp
342

 

Uhtred of Northumbria
306

Ulf, bishop of Dorchester
241–2
,
325

Utrecht
124
,
126
,
156

 

Vercelli Book
241–2
,
325

Vikings

First Viking Age
58–9
,
86
,
91
,
117
,
118
,
176–204
,
208
,
226–33
,
264–5
,
279

origin of term
180

Second Viking Age
292–4
,
296–320

Vita Alfredi Regis Angul Saxonum
(Asser)
210–12

Vitalian, Pope
47

Vitalis, Orderic
323
,
331
,
332
,
336
,
337
,
339
,
347

Vortigern
13–14
,
15
,
20

 

Wace
338

Wærferth, bishop of Worcester
215
,
226
,
266

Walburga, abbess of Heidenheim
160

Wales
329
,
331
,
335

weapons, Anglo-Saxon
50–2
,
218
,
311

Welf I of Bavaria
161

wergild
41–2
,
98
,
197
219
,
224

Wessex
16–18
,
27
,
32

8th-century
53–9

first Christian kings
48–50

government
53–5

under Alfred the Great
205–33

and the Vikings
182
,
185–6
,
189–95

Whitby, Synod of
45
,
62
,
79
,
80–1

Widsith
235
,
237
,
239
,
240

Widukind
155

Wigbert, abbot of Fritzlar
134

Wigheard, archbishop of Canterbury
47
,
295

Wight, Isle of
97
,
99
,
298
,
299
,
300

Wiglaf, king of Mercia
114
,
118
,
185

Wihtred, king of Kent
40
,
99

Wilfrid, bishop of York and Ripon xli,
48
,
50
,
62
,
68
,
69
,
74
,
75
,
77
,
78–83
,
97
,
121–2
,
124
,
127
,
128
,
161

Willehad, bishop of Bremen
130
,
150–1
,
155

William of Jumièges
316

William of Malmesbury
231
,
265
,
268
,
287
,
337
,
339
,
351

William of Normandy (the Conqueror)
xliii
,
xliv
,
112
,
248
,
320
,
323
,
325
,
332–3
,
334
,
335–9
,
340–3
,
344–9
,
350

William of Poitiers
332
,
335
,
338–9
,
346

Willibald, bishop of Eichstätt
87–8
,
128
,
131
,
133
,
139
,
140–1
,
148
,
159–60

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