No I'm only up to ch. 7. I think the undead don't make an appearance until ch. 18.
The Long, Hard Winter of 1855-56
A very interesting read, but long. Now that was the year of climate change..........................
http://wintercenter.homestead.com/files/1855-56.pdf
A correspondent in Kentucky has very obligingly sent us the following chronicle of the most remarkable spells of bitter weather known in the old world:
In the year 301, the cold was so intense in Europe, that the Black Sea was frozen entirely over.
In 401, the Pontus Sea, and the sea between Constantinople [now Istanbul] and Scutari in Turkey, were entirely frozen over.
The Danube was frozen over in 462, so that a whole army crossed on the ice.
The black Sea again frozen over in 765…
Carriages crossed the Adriatic Sea, or Gulf of Venice, in 859, and in 860 the cold was so intense that cattle froze to death in their stalls. The Mediterranean Sea was so thickly frozen over, that it was passable for carriages and horses, and merchandise was transported across it on the ice.
1133. This year the River Po, in Italy, was frozen from Cremona to the sea; wine burst the casks containing it, and the trees split with a loud report.
1216. The River Po was frozen to a depth of sixteen feet.
1234. The Mediterranean was again frozen over…
1292. The Rhine was frozen over, and the snow is represented as being of an “enormous depth.â€
1323. The Baltic Sea was frozen over so as to be passable for six weeks.
1344. All the rivers in Italy were frozen over.
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1349, 1492 [likely 1292] and 1408. The Baltic Sea was frozen over in each of these years.
1384. The Rhine and Gulf of Venice were frozen over.
1423, 1426 and 1459. In each of these years the traveling from Lubec to Prussia was performed on the ice.
1620. The sea between Constantinople and Iskodar was passable on the ice.
1670. The cold was intense throughout Europe.
1681. This year the cold was so severe as to split whole forests of oak trees...
1692. Wolves came into Vienna, and attacked men and women, owing to the intense cold and hunger…
1776. This year the Danube was frozen over five feet thick below Vienna…