The Challenges of Writing Fiction About the “Darkest Corner of the Dark Ages” ‹ Literary Hub

Another said:

"Isn't the sixth century, like, the darkest corner of the Dark Ages?"

"Yes," I said, "but it's only dark to us. It wasn't dark to the people actually living there."

An archaeologist friend was equally flummoxed.

"Why would you do that to yourself?" he said. "There are no written records of life in Britain in the sixth century. Londinium was unoccupied, abandoned, crumbling. How do you even begin to make it come to life?"