| |  | Alfred (also "Ælfred" from the Old English: "Ælfrēd" //) (c. 849 - 26 October 899) was king of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871... |  | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the au... |  | Henry Sweet (1845-1912) was a philologist, and is also considered to be an early linguist. He specialized in the Germanic languages, particularly... |  | Nennius, or Nemnivus, is either of two shadowy personages traditionally associated with the history of Wales. The better known of the two is... |  | Kevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English children's author and poet. Born in Mursley, North Buckinghamshire, Holland grew up in Whiteleaf,... |  | Byrhtnoth ("Byrhtnoþ", also spelled "Byrhtnoð", "Byrihtnoð", "Brihtnoþ", "Beorhtnoþ", "Beorhtnoð", "Baeorhtnoð") was a 10th century Ealdorm... |  | Bill Griffiths (born 1948) is a poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival. Griffiths was born in Middlesex. As a... |  | Thomas Alan Shippey (born September 9, 1943) is a scholar of medieval literature, including Anglo-Saxon England, and of modern fantasy and science... |  | Ethelwulf, Old English: "Æþelwulf", means 'Noble Wolf' (c. 795-858) was the elder son of King Egbert of Wessex. He conquered Kent on behalf of hi... |  | Benjamin Thorpe (1782 - July, 1870) was an English Anglo-Saxon scholar. After studying for four years at Copenhagen University, under the Danish... | |
