 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...Northumbrians, and miserably terrified the people: there were excessive whirlwinds and lightnings, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine soon followed these tokens; and a little after that, in the same year, on the 6th of the Ides, of January,... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Great Britain - 1886 - 416 pages
...North-humbrians and miserably terrified the people ; there were excessive whirlwinds and lightnings, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine soon followed these tokens ; and a little after that, in the same year, on the 6th before the Ides... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1892 - 688 pages
...Northumbrians and brought wretchedness and fear upon the folk. There were mickle whirlwinds and lightnings, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine followed these tokens, and a little after that in the same year, on the 6th before the Ides of January,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Hanna - Scots-Irish - 1902 - 648 pages
...Northumbrians, and miserably terrified the people ; these were excessive whirlwinds, and lightnings ; and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine soon followed these tokens ; and a little after that, in the same year, on the 6th of the Ides of January,... | |
 | Edmund Dale - Anglo-Saxon literature - 1907 - 362 pages
...prodigies came upon the land of the Northumbrians and miserably terrified the people ; there were great flashes of lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine soon followed these tokens ; and a little afterwards in the same year, on the 8th of January, the ravaging... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - Great Britain - 1908 - 830 pages
...Northumbrians and miserably terrified the people ; there were excessive whirlwinds, and lightnings; and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine soon followed these tokens ; and a little after that, in the same year, on the 6th before the Ides... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook, Chauncey Brewster Tinker - Literary Criticism - 1908 - 314 pages
...Northumbrians, and miserably terrified the people ; these were excessive whirlwinds, and lightnings ; and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine soon followed these tokens ; and a little after that, in the same year, on the 6th before the Ides... | |
 | Derek Baker - History - 1995 - 278 pages
...Lindisfarne i. Source: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, English Historical Documents I (1955) p. 167 793. In this year dire portents appeared over Northumbria...flying in the air. A great famine immediately followed these signs, and a little after that in the same year, on 8 June, the ravages of heathen men miserably... | |
 | George Beahm, Beahm - Fiction - 1998 - 278 pages
...enjoy, in the early eigth century, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles for the year 973 reported the following: In this year dire portents appeared over Northumbria...lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air.2 Dragons still flew then, long after the story of Beowulf and his monsters had passed into folklore... | |
 | Michael Swanton - History - 1998 - 412 pages
...enacted, see Swanton, Prose, pp. 3-6. E 793 continued from p. 55 A great famine immediately followed these signs; and a little after that in the same year on 8 January" the raiding of heathen men miserably devastated God's church in Lindisfarne island by looting... | |
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In this year dire portents appeared over Northumbria and sorely frightened the people. They consisted of immense whirlwinds and flashes of lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. 
