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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 3, 37. Of the Severe Winter
This year there was a bad winter, much severer than usual; the streams were frozen, and people crossed them as if they were dry ground. The snows lay deep, and the birds, either numbed or famished, were caught in the hand without need of snares.
From the death of Clovis to the death of Theudebert are counted thirty-seven years. Theudebert dying in the fourteenth year of his reign, his son Theudebald reigned in his stead.1
Notes
- A. D. 548–56.