See also Ch. Byzantine historians record the new arrivals as axe-bearing warriors, which fits with them being the House Carls or personal guards of Anglo-Saxon nobles. No historian doubts that this event took place. These pagan ravages had not ended when Charlemagne was crowned King of the Romans by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day in AD 800. It led to the founding of a ‘New England’ settlement of Anglo-Saxon exiles in the Crimea. Englishmen fled overseas to Byzantium where they were received by the Em peror Alexius.2 Later, he implies that soon after Harold's death, and the acces sion of William, Englishmen found a friend in Alexius at Byzantium.3 This is a chronological absurdity, for Alexius Comnenus did not come to the throne This is related to the Varangian Guard, and the ‘Swedes going South’, a previous post. ‘The formal date for the introduction of the Varangian Guard to the Byzantine military establishment is widely considered to be the year 988 . F ELL , A Note on Pálsbók , Medieval Scandinavia 6 (1973) 102-108. Fell, 'The Icelandic saga of Edward the Confessor: its version of the Anglo-Saxon emigration to Byzantium', Anglo-Saxon England, 3 (1974), 179–96 at p. 193; A. Shchavelev, 'A seal of Byzantine "Translator of the English" Patrikios Sphen: its date and socio-cultural context', in H. Ivakin et al (eds. as the Anglo-Saxon emigration to Byzantium (Constantinople). The reign of Charles the Great or Charlemagne is often referred to as a renaissance, a time when Western Europe sought recovery from the barbarian ravages that helped to transform Rome from an empire to a series of self-sufficient territories. His final chapter contains an account of the Anglo-Saxon emigration to Byzantium after the Norman Conquest. It led to the founding of a ‘New England’ settlement of Anglo-Saxon exiles in the Crimea. This is a little-known but fascinating episode in British history known as the Anglo-Saxon emigration to Byzantium (Constantinople). Up until the Norman conquest of England, the Varangian guards consisted chiefly of Scandinavian and Kievan Rus' warriors. No historian doubts that this event took place. 21 There is fairly full documentation from Byzantium itself and the accounts of the Anglo-Norman chronicler Orderic and the hagiographer Goscelin are not unknown. Abstract. Today I continue the snippets of history ‘series’,with the presence of Anglo-Saxons in Byzantium. Emigration to Byzantium, Anglo-Saxon England 3 (1974) 179-196 (esp. The crisis in Anglo-Saxon state and society brought on by the Norman Conquest created an Anglo-Saxon emigration, part of which found refuge and employment in Byzantium. And They Called it England: Place-Naming and the Anglo-Saxon Emigration to Byzantium . 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