Learnings: A New, Mixed Identity

Copper alloy cast Anglo-Scandinavian style knife handle, decorated in Ringerike style / 11th cent.

It appears that heathens and Christians in Anglo-Saxon Britain managed to overcome their differences, coming together as people living under the same rulers and sharing the same land.

With time, and with no regard for their origins, the peoples living in the Danelaw could have come to see each other as one and the same people. Anglo-Scandinavians may have considered themselves as much as "Danes" as "English."

This handle was the result of mixed Anglo-Scandinavian craftsmanship.