...Northumbria, defenceless and open to the seas. Under the year 793 the Anglo-Saxon C.luouide reports: Dire portents appeared over Northumbria and sorely...of immense whirlwinds and flashes of lightning, and ficry dragons were seen in the air. A great famine immediately followed these signs, and later in the...

...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...

...North-humbrians, 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...