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In a message dated 8/17/01 12:00:37 AM GMT Daylight Time,
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> Early records of the plague first show it in Egypt in 542 after which it
> moved NW eventually coming to England and Ireland as 'The Plague of
> Cadwaller's Time' in 664.
There were 30 years of plague and famine in Egypt from about 540. At least 12
new bishops were ordained in Gaul between 541 and 549 (two 'national' church
councils at Orleans), perhaps indicating an unusually deadly epidemic. The
'mortalitas prima' (c.544) and 'mortalitas magna' (c.551) of the Irish Annals
(and a note on the death of 'Mailcun rex Genedotae' in the Annales Cambriae
an.= 547) are perhaps indications of this epidemic reaching Britain and
Ireland. Gregory of Tours refers vaguely to what may have been several 6th c.
outbreaks in his 'Ten Books of History' (aka 'History of the Franks'). From
memory, I think Procopius ('Gothic War') may also contain more evidence for
this.
Henry Gough-Cooper.
visit the Scottish Place-Name Society website at
http://www.st-and.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/index.htm
and the Scottish place-name newsgroup at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scotplace
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