522. Warlords of the West: A Clash of Ice and Fire (Part 3)

1915.083 - 1941.445 Dominic Sandbrook

Certainly, one anticipated the day's beginning and the other the night's, so that they might act as a sign that evils threatened mortals at both times. They bore a fiery torch to the north as if to start a fire. They appeared in the month of January and remained for nearly two weeks. At that time, a very serious plague of Saracens plundered the Gauls with miserable slaughter.