Are there any primary accounts from 500 AD, when the sun supposedly went dark for 18 months?I want to hear what they say about it.
Isn't that about when Christianity was enforced in Rome? Maybe the Sun god was pissed
yeah rightno sun for a year and a half would've turned earth into an icecube and killed everything
>>42403565No, not quite right but there was a volcanic winter that lowered temperatures in the northern hemisphere. Basic summary here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536
>>42403565No
>>42403650Rome fell about a century before this but go off king. You know you can search anything you want on the same device you use to post here?
>>42403565The Roman statesman Cassiodorus wrote a description of it in a letter to a colleague. It's too long to put in a post but have a link:https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18590/pg18590-images.html#Page_518
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>>42403565I’ve heard they had a Krakatoa like volcanic event that blotted out the sun. True entrance to the dark age.
>>42403650About 120 years after Nicene Christendom was made mandatory by Theodosius I in 380AD.
