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Re: eclipse

>I'm waiting with great curiosity to hear from those living in Normandy and
>England to tell us about the eclipse.  I suppose in this day of scientific
>enlightenment, there isn't much to say......
>    But evidently 1000 years ago when Richard II was Duke of Normandy and
>his nephew (our Walderne/Walter) was perhaps 8 years old, it was quite an
>event.  Since it was so close to the millennium and followed the devastation
>of the Crusades, perhaps they believed that the day of reckoning was upon
>them.

The millennium in 1000 AD was a big event, for sure.
But the First Crusade was in 1096; it hadn't happened yet.

>Laurel

John
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