 | Christine Rauer - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 246 pages
...portents appeared over Northumbria, and miserably frightend the inhabitants: these were exceptional flashes of lightning and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine soon followed these signs', The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (E) ed. Plummer, Two of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles... | |
 | Sara M. Pons Sanz - Altenglisch - 2000 - 150 pages
...Northumbria, and miserably frightened the people: these were immense flashes of lightning, and very fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. 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... | |
 | Paul Rhys Mountfort - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2002 - 226 pages
...the approach of the Vikings in 793. The AngloSaxon Chronicle entry for that year infamously reads: In this year dire portents appeared over Northumbria...and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air.""" These were dire signs indeed, judging by the subsequent sack of the monastery, but whether the augury... | |
 | Ted Olsen - History - 2003 - 200 pages
...Northumbrians and miserably terrified the people; these were extraordinary whirlwinds and lightnings, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine soon followed these omens and soon after that, in the same year, the havoc of heathen men miserably... | |
 | Angelo Forte, Richard D. Oram, Frederik Pedersen - History - 2005 - 474 pages
...portents appeared over Northumbria, and miserably frightened the inhabitants: these were exceptional flashes of lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine soon followed these signs; and a little after that in the same year in January the harrying of the... | |
 | Tom Coenegrachts, Annelies Coenen, Yvonne de Rue, Brigitte Meijns, Arnold Provoost - Art - 2006 - 124 pages
...portents came about over the land of Northumbria, and miserably frightened the people: these were immense flashes of lightning, and fiery dragons were seen...flying in the air. 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... | |
 | Dirk Meier - History - 2006 - 200 pages
...portents appeared over Northumbria and miserably frightened the inhabitants: these were exceptional flashes of lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine followed these signs; and a little after that, in the same year on 8 June, the harrying of the heathen... | |
 | David Greagg, Binny Hobbs - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 100 pages
...newspaper, but it was actually a monk's diary) wrote this: 'In this year [793 CE] there were exceptional flashes of lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine soon followed these signs, and on the 8th of June in the same year the harrying of the heathen [Vikings]... | |
 | Asa Simon Mittman - History - 2006 - 294 pages
...[in the sky] above Northumbria, after which the people were pulled into misery. Then there were huge whirlwinds and flashes of lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky."30 These dragons are merely one manifestation of the dangers of nature which, as might be expected... | |
 | Nancy Marie Brown - Excavations (Archaeology) - 2007 - 332 pages
...terrible portents appeared over Northumbria and sadly affrighted the inhabitants: these were exceptional flashes of lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine followed soon upon these signs, and a little after that in the same year on the ides of June the harrying... | |
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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. 
