Unfortunately for us historians, the pre-Christian Early English appear to have been a largely illiterate society, and their British contemporaries far more interested in casting the newcomers as literary ebodiments of divine wrath in a morality tale than in performing any genuine anthropological study. Neither do the post-conversion English appear to have had any interest in recording the theology of their previous faith(s). We get some limited information from Bede, who suggests the identities of a number of Germanic gods and their fields of influence, although this is in the context of explaining the names of months rather than in providing actual pre-Christian theology. We are also unfortunately left to estimate the extent to which Bede was simply inventing 'gods' to explain the names of things.

Given the parallels we do know between pre-Christian Early English religion and wider Early Germanic faiths (in terms of the overlap of pantheons; Woden - Odin, Donar - Thor, etc.) we might hypothesise that Early English cosmogony likely bore some similarity to wider Early Germanic cosmogonies. In this, however, we are left with the eternal question as to how far we can reflect post-conversion Scandinavian texts to reflect the genuine pre-Christian cosmogony and form of belief.