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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 9, 17. Of the Scarcity in This Year
In the spring of this year1 there were heavy rains, and when the leaves were already out on the trees and on the vines a fall of snow covered all. There followed a frost which withered the vine fronds and all the fruits already formed. Such was the rigour of the season that even swallows and birds coming from foreign parts were killed by the severe cold. And a strange thing it was that the frost ruined everything in those places where it had never done harm before, and did not go where it had usually wrought mischief.
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