[SunkenCiv]

Tree rings challenge history
by BBC News Online's Jonathan Amos

Mike Baillie, professor of palaeoecology at Queen's University in Belfast, UK, said it was very clear from the narrowness of growth rings in bog oaks and archaeological timbers that a great catastrophe struck the Earth in AD 540. He said mythical stories certainly seemed to point to a comet striking the Earth at about the right time. He said King Arthur died in this period and some stories talk about long arms in the sky delivering mighty blows. Professor Baillie said chemical analysis would be carried out on the tree rings to investigate the comet idea further. He hopes also to get access to ice cores to see if they record any interesting data that might support the comet theory.

[SunkenCiv]

okay, that was a bad link up there:

Tree rings challenge history
by BBC News Online's Jonathan Amos
Friday, September 8, 2000

Mike Baillie, professor of palaeoecology at Queen's University in Belfast, UK, said it was very clear from the narrowness of growth rings in bog oaks and archaeological timbers that a great catastrophe struck the Earth in AD 540. He said mythical stories certainly seemed to point to a comet striking the Earth at about the right time. He said King Arthur died in this period and some stories talk about long arms in the sky delivering mighty blows. Professor Baillie said chemical analysis would be carried out on the tree rings to investigate the comet idea further. He hopes also to get access to ice cores to see if they record any interesting data that might support the comet theory.

[GeronL]

fascinating!

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[GOPJ]

He said King Arthur died in this period and some stories talk about long arms in the sky delivering mighty blows.

And for hundreds of years honor and cultural courage are the outcome of a comet?