 | Anglo-Saxons - 1850 - 200 pages
...of Northumbria was first disturbed by the piratical Northmen. The Saxon chronicle records : " 793. This year dire forewarnings came over the land of...lightnings, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air (the aurora ?) A great famine soon followed these tokens ; and ,a little after that, in the same year,... | |
 | sir John Bernard Burke - 1850 - 516 pages
...Tyne." — Palgrave, THE FLYING DRAGONS OF LINDISFARNE. The Anglo-Saxon chronicle states that in " 793 dire forewarnings came over the land of the Northumbrians,...lightnings; and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine soon destroyed these tokens ; and a little after that, on the 6th before the Ides of... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1852 - 284 pages
...forewarnings came over 793. the land of the 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 of... | |
 | 1853 - 434 pages
...East Anglians. " From DE '• D. E, F 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 of... | |
 | Anglo-Saxon chronicle - 1853 - 448 pages
...This was the eighth Sunday after Trinity. 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 of... | |
 | John Hodgson - 1858 - 416 pages
...which has thought it necessary to herald their approach with omens and prodigies. " In the year 793 dire forewarnings came over the land of the Northumbrians, and miserably terrified the people ; these were excessive whirlwinds and lightnings : and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A... | |
 | Benjamin Thorpe - 1861 - 352 pages
...wife, who was called JElfled, on the md of the Kal. of October (Sept. 29th). loo, 101. An. DCC.XCIH. In this year dire forewarnings came over the land...Northumbrians, and miserably terrified the people : these were excessive whirlwinds and lightnings, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A... | |
 | Benjamin Thorpe - 1861 - 350 pages
...dire forewarnings came over ihe land of the 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 vith... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1862 - 600 pages
...DC.LXXI. In this year was the great destruction of birds. An. DCC.XCIII. In this year dire forwarnings came over the land of the Northumbrians, and miserably...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 vith... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1867 - 606 pages
...DC.LXXI. In this year was the great destruction of birds. An. DCC.XCIII. In this year dire forwarnings came over the land of the Northumbrians, and miserably...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 vith of... | |
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This year dire forewarnings came over the land of the Northumbrians and miserably terrified the people ; there were excessive whirlwinds, and lightnings; and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. 
