[blam]

Don't forget that the tree rings recorded a worldwide calamity around 540AD and this is also the start date of the (worldwide) Dark Ages.

[ChicagoRepublican]

Why is this such a sensation? Trade was still widespread, even with the chaos in western Europe.

[JamesWilson]

The oldest Persian coin in the Viking treasure goes back to 538 A.D.

WOW!!! Can you imagine what the interest on that would be?

[Verginius Rufus]

This is only the 616th day of the century...so maybe this is the biggest sensation so far.

King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturluson is available in the Penguin Classics. In chapter 12 it tells how King Harald conquered Palestine and went to bathe in the River Jordan: "He cleared a route all the way to the river Jordan, killing all the robbers and other trouble-makers in the area."

Too bad he was killed at Stamford Bridge...the Middle East could use someone like him right now.

[LostTribe]

I may have previously mentioned the name Dr. Iben Browning, formerly of the U of New Mex, now deceased. You would have absolutely loved to hear him speak on these subjects, especially volcanism and weather and it's effects on man.

I heard him years ago at a financial conference in New Orleans, where he was the hit of the conference. Spoke the next year too as I recall. Despite his great work in these fields he was not widely recognized by the "establishment" since it didn't fit their stale old notes. So he just made a fortune instead as a PRIVATE weathercaster for large international conglomerates whose fortunes varied with global weather. They just LOVED him.

Unfortunately, as too often happens with great men, he made a bad call (the New Madrid non-earthquake) not long before his death and that is how too many, especially his enemies, choose to remember him.) I think you would enjoy his book Climate and the affairs of men.

[SunkenCiv]

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[eleni121]

"Arabian coins were also the common currency in Scandinavia for 1000 years."
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This is fantasy by whoever writes the article. There may have been coins originating in Arab dominated areas for some hundreds of years but "common currency" ofr "1000 years"!!! Outlandinsh claim.

[SunkenCiv]

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