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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 9, 44. Of the Weather During This Year
This year, at the end of the Easter festival, there was an immense fall of rain with hail. Within the space of two or three hours, even in the windings of the lesser valleys, great rivers seemed to flow. Trees blossomed in autumn, and gave a second crop of fruit. Rivers rose beyond all measure, so widely overflowing their banks, that they flooded places which commonly they never reached, and inflicted great damage on the sown fields.