Anglo-Saxons facts:

Houses:

Anglo-Saxons had a very easy or hard life.When they built their huts they used timberwood and straw to make their roofs.The timberwood were used for the walls.They had windows but not made out of glass.They were small.When they had open fires which would make one room really smoky.

Life:

Women:

They would mostly do the cooking,washing,cleaning and looking after every family in the house.They would make clothes out of chicken poo.

Men:

They would just eat.Everyday they would meet up with the other men in the village and go to one big hut and have a feast(a big meal.)They would eat chicken,cow,pig and vegetables.They would drink a type of beer called mead.

Children:

The children would help their Mum to make clothes out of chicken poo.Also they sometimes would go to the feasts with their Dads and drink mead and get drunk.It was a hard time for children because they might get hurt badly by drinking mead.

Rulers:

There was this ruler called Alfred the Great who lived in the Saxon times.He was famous for defeating the Vikings and organising England to be a lawfull and educated place.King Alfred was the youngest son of a King called King Eppilwole from Wessex.By the time