| ASC |
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (cited by year and manuscript letter). The English translations are from Michael Swanton, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (New York: Routledge, 1996) |
| ASE |
Anglo-Saxon England (journal) |
| Attestations |
Simon Keynes, An Atlas of Attestations in Anglo-Saxon Charters, c.670–1066 (Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Studies, University of Cambridge, 2002), cited by table |
| Diplomas |
Simon Keynes, The Diplomas of King Æthelred the Unready, 978–1016 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980) |
| Edgar, King of the English |
Donald Scragg (ed.), Edgar, King of the English, 959–975 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2008) |
| EHD |
English Historical Documents: Volume I: c.500–1042, ed. Dorothy Whitelock, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 1979). |
| EHR |
English Historical Review (journal) |
| JW |
The Chronicle of John of Worcester, vol. 2, ed. R. R. Darlington and P. McGurk (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995) |
| Keynes, ‘An Abbot’ |
Simon Keynes, ‘An Abbot, an Archbishop and the Viking Raids of 1006–7 and 1009–12’, ASE, 36 (2007), pp. 151–220 |
| Lavelle |
Ryan Lavelle, Æthelred II: King of the English 978–1016 (Stroud: Tempus, 2002) |
| Laws |
The Laws of the Kings of England from Edmund to Henry I, ed. and trans. A. J. Robertson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925) |
| Life of St Oswald |
Byrhtferth, Life of St Oswald, in Byrhtferth of Ramsey: The Lives of St Oswald and St Ecgwine, ed. and trans. Michael Lapidge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) |
| Making of English Law |
Patrick Wormald, The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999) |
| Maldon, AD 991 |
Donald Scragg (ed.), The Battle of Maldon, AD 991 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991) |
| Political Writings |
Andrew Rabin, The Political Writings of Archbishop Wulfstan of York (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015) |
| Roach, Æthelred the Unready |
Levi Roach, Æthelred the Unready (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2016) |
| S |
P. H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, revised by S. E. Kelly and R. Rushforth as the ‘Electronic Sawyer’ (www.esawyer.org.uk). Charters are cited by their ‘Sawyer’ or ‘S’ number |
| Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia |
Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Michael Lapidge et al. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014) |
| Williams |
Ann Williams, Æthelred the Unready: The Ill-Counselled King (London: Hambledon Continuam, 2003) |
| WM |
William of Malmesbury: Gesta Regum Anglorum, The History of the English Kings, vol. 1, ed. R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) |