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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 8, 24. Of Islands in the Sea
In the same year two islands in the sea were burned by fire from heaven. For seven days they were consumed, even to destruction, with all the inhabitants and herds of cattle then upon them. For those who took refuge in the sea, and flung themselves into the deep, were drowned beneath the waters into which they had plunged; and all on shore who did not meet instant death were burned in yet greater torment. All was reduced to ashes, and the sea covered everything. There were many who said that the fiery signs of which I told above, seen in the month of October, and making the heavens seem aflame, were the reflection of this conflagration.1
Notes
- Above, chs. 8, 17.