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This text is an adaptation from the Old English poem 'The Ruin', which is preserved in the tenth-century Codex known as The Exeter Book. The Old English 'Ruin' describes a fallen and decaying city, and has sometimes been seen as an Anglo-Saxon…

The poem is an attempt to personalise an Ango-Saxon warrior from the fragments of archeological material available.

The legend of the founding of Evesham is that while searching for his pigs on the banks of the River Avon, Eof, a swineherd, received a vision of the Virgin Mary. Eof related this vision to Ecgwine (Saint Egwin), Bishop of Worcester. Ecgwine founded…

This is a novel, a murder mystery set in Northumbria around the time of the arrival of Christianity. It's loosely based on the history of Escomb church in Durham. I wrote it a long time ago; I don't know about its quality, but it was the fruit of a…

The Ruthwell Cross is an Anglo-Saxon (or more properly Northumbrian) stone sculpture, dating from the eighth (or perhaps seventh) century, and now housed in Ruthwell parish church in Dumfriesshire, although it may have once stood outside. Runic…

A modernist retelling of the legend of St Frideswide of Oxford. Commended in the 2009 Scintilla long poem competition, published in the magazine in 2010. Inspired by many walks between Oxford and Binsey, and the city itself.

Two poems inspired by Anglo-Saxon history and literature.

Two illustrations for a story I began to write but didn't finish about an imaginary meeting of two cultures, Roman and Anglo Saxon.

The woman looking out over a Saxon village is from a Roman family
her child and husband are buried in the forest…

A poem inspired by the Anglo-Saxon church of St Andrew at Greensted in Essex, parts of which are estimated to be over a thousand years old; it is possible that the site has been a place of Christian worship for 1,300 years. St Andrew's is the oldest…

A short piece of fiction with a twist in the tail.