The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one ... the country was divided into four kingdoms - Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia and Wessex. Wessex was the only one of these kingdoms to survive ...
In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ... King of East Anglia, who died in 624, and whose reign coincides ...