Tale Of (King) Arthur Points To Comet Catastrophe

The Times ^ | 9-9-2000 | Nick Nuttall

[Pelham]

Or at least fire and brimstone.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 2002. Never got pinged.

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[RegulatorCountry]

palaeoecology

Gotta love fussy British spelling. I don't think I've ever seen another word in the English language with four vowels in succession.

[Sacajaweau]

I would guess that there are MILLIONS of sites that exhibit this at some point in time so I find nothing profound about it.

What archeological evidence will the latest Tsunami leave behind?? And in 1000 years, what will the grant money application say??

[RegulatorCountry]

From what I’ve seen within my own family history during Reconstruction in the south after the Civil War, it’s not surprising that record keeping would have ceased in the aftermath of such an event.

Just privations in the aftermath of war in a defeated state left some of my people burying their dead with rocks for markers, and then there were those, even from formerly prominent families, who fell into poverty and illiteracy, climbing out of which required several generations. There are families who still haven’t, with ancestors’ surnames on college campus buildings, government edifices and such.

So, to me, it’s not surprising at all to have such a black hole, especially leading into the so-called Dark Ages.

[wendy1946]

The idea of a comet disaster around 540 is more or less believable. The mistake would be in thinking that previous catastrophes including the flood had such relatively small or isolated causes.

[grey_whiskers]

"In 1783, Iceland experience a great effusion of Lava from the Laki Fissure. The resulting ash and fluorine gas destroyed 90% of the livestock and starved one fifth of the population. "

Sorry, came upon this while reading something else.

Elemental Fluorine...?

Color me rather skeptical and highly surprised.

If true, nasty horrible stuff--and a terrible way to go.

[blam]

"Gotta love fussy British spelling. I don't think I've ever seen another word in the English language with four vowels in succession."

If you reed the British press enough, it becomes habit forming. I notice that I often mis-spell 'amoungst'.

[gleeaikin]

The Laki Fissure event was a major calamity, and while sulfur fumes are more commonly associated with volcanic events, Iceland seems especially prone to fluorine fumes. The death toll was very high amoung livestock, and about 10,000 Icelanders died mostly of starvation effects. Benjamin Franklin who was in France at the time remarked on the weird weather and blue haze which affected Europe’s climate at the time. He commented that it was probably something volcanic in Iceland. Subsequent European crop failures are thought to have worsened conditions in France helping to promote the French Revolution.

With regard to historical records, I read somewhere (probably in Simon Winchesters book “Krakatoa”) that efforts to determine earlier ages of major eruptions there were using the absence of records as a sign that something catastrophic happened at certain dates. Regarding 540AD, I believe that this was the period referred to by Cassiodorus in his writings. Check Google. There was also famine in China at the same time. I suspect it was more likely volcanic in cause than from a major boloid strike. I think a boloid event of that size would have left physical evidence which I don’t think has been found.

[gleeaikin]

I was merrily reading along, and came to a large comment that sounded somehow familiar. Then I saw it was written by me, then I saw it was from 2006. So I am wondering why this is being reposted in 2011? Inquiring minds want to know.

[blam]

It's SunkenCiv.

He gets bored and starts 'updating the **** list/file' and this is what happens. the other day, I had replies on a nine year old thread, lol.

[grey_whiskers]

Thanks for the info, glee.

I was just surprised at Fluorine, because it is so reactive that you generally don't see it in elemental form.

Cheers!

[SunkenCiv]

I’m just playin’ mind games, mwa-ha-ha! ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Queueing has five in a row.

[RegulatorCountry]

“Queue” is a borrowed word from the French.

[RegulatorCountry]

Not reposted, just bumped with a recent comment, which was seen in the “Comments” tab and the thread was resurrected. Happens fairly often. Sometimes it’s annoying, but sometimes it’s a good thing. This is an interesting thread, I’m all for it.

[SunkenCiv]

Dang, I thought it was borrowed from that Star Trek guy.

[SunkenCiv]

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[piasa]

Within a hundred years of this disasterous event people from all over the southeast were converging and settling at the Cahokia site in Illinois, a culture which would be ruled by a series of leaders called “great suns,” and a site at which woodhenges would be built to track solar or other events in the sky.