Early Dark Age Britain is notorious for being poorly recorded. Most of our information about the era comes from much later records, written centuries after the events they allegedly describe. There is endless debate from scholars, based on the literary evidence, surrounding the historicity of the kings of Britain of this era. However, there are a few cases where we do not need to rely on the later medieval records to know whether a given king really existed or not. There are about 200 stone inscriptions from Dark Age Britain. These inscriptions provide us with contemporary or near-contemporary insights into the kings of Britain at that time.
- Nudd Hael
- Conomor
- King Ithel
“Dark Ages” is a really outdated term, we should be using “early middle ages”.
The whole “dark ages” thing got started with one guy in the 1400s who thought no great literature was written in the last 900 years…
In real life education was very important during that time, and people were traveling the globe to exchange idea and open universities thousands of miles from where they were born.
Who was the guy who invented the term in the 1400s?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch
But I hope you googled it instead of waiting 12 hours for me to respond…
I was off when I said 1400s, it was 14th century. But pretty good off memory