Information and resources are available on our web site for teachers and students of the Viking Age (including the OCR A-Level course “The Viking Age”). It covers the history, society and culture of the Scandinavian peoples and their engagement with Britain and Ireland during the period 793-1066.
The BA in Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic at Cambridge is unique (both in Britain and Ireland and indeed in the world!) in offering a degree in which students can combine a passion for early medieval history with a love of languages and literature, while also ranging across the cultures of early Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia, in any combination they choose.
Read moreThe ASNC Department offers a 9-month research-preparation MPhil course and a three-year PhD. It has a lively graduate community with students pursuing research topics in all areas covered by the teaching and research interests of the Department, covering early medieval languages and literatures (Old English, Old Norse, Medieval Welsh, Medieval Irish, Insular Latin), the history of a comparable range of geographical areas (Anglo-Saxon England, Scandinavia, Ireland, Wales, Brittany, and Scotland), as well palaeography.
Read moreCongratulations: Dr Ben Guy awarded an AHRC Standard Grant for project on early Welsh charters
Congratulations: Dr Ben Guy awarded an AHRC Standard Grant for project on early […]
Congratulations: Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou Awarded Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Prize
Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou has been awarded this year’s Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Prize for the best […]
Clemoes Reading Prize Winners 2025
Congratulations to Lefi Dafydd and Finn Longman, joint winners of the 2025 […]
In Our Time programme on the Battle of Clontarf features Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
This week’s episode of Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time focuses on an […]
New ASNC publications available to purchase
The following new ASNC publications are now available to purchase online: 2025 […]
New ASNC publication available to purchase
The latest volume of the Basic Texts for Brittonic History series is […]
Latest E.C. Quiggin pamphlet, published 2024, available to purchase
The latest E.C. Quiggin publication is now available to purchase. Volume 24: […]
19 March 2026, H. M. Chadwick lecture: Professor Barry Lewis (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
10 Feb 2026, 5:00pm – 6:30pm Venue: ONLINE The Department of Anglo-Saxon,[…]
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