This episode explores the transformative era following the fall of Roman Britain, when waves of Anglo-Saxons—mainly from present-day Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands—crossed the North Sea and began settling in the British Isles. As Roman institutions collapsed, these new settlers brought with them their own languages, beliefs, and warrior culture.

We follow the formation of early kingdoms such as Wessex, Mercia, and Northumbria, and meet legendary figures like King Æthelbert of Kent, who embraced Christianity, and King Offa, who asserted dominance across large parts of England. The episode also highlights how these early kingdoms laid the cultural and political foundations for the nation to come.

Through war, alliance, faith, and myth, the Anglo-Saxons turned a fragmented land into a tapestry of emerging identity—a dawn that lit the path to England’s future.