Before we delve into the British Dark Ages, I felt it prudent to identify a number of key sources! Throughout this blog I will be drawing upon a wide band of extensive primary sources, from manuscripts, sagas to texts. Where possible I will be keeping to analysing these sources themselves, this is not to be considered an academic blog in the historiographical sense. All of these texts, however, have been translated into English (where possible I will be returning to their original forms to assess the linguistic structure, though my Old English/Icelandic are both works in progress!).
Thankfully, there is a whole vestige of primary sources available from the comfort of your own home, allowing us wannabee scholars to draw upon the wealth of material ourselves without spending time in a dusty archive or library (though there is a joy in that anyway).
In short, here are some useful links:
http://www.kmatthews.org.uk/history/history.html
https://sagadb.org/
http://asc.jebbo.co.uk/intro.html
All of these links contain a vestige of useful primary sources for us to draw upon. Furthermore, here is a couple of books/reviews I have been looking for. I will be publishing a living bibliography as my research continues!
Campbell, A.
(1967). AEthelwulf: De Abbatibus (Vol. 1). Oxford, Oxfordshire, United
Kingdom: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature.
Sturlson, S.
(2005). The Prose Edda. (J. Byock, Trans.) London, Strand, United
Kingdom: Penguin
Classics.
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