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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 8, 23. Of Great Floods
This year there were great rains, and the rivers were swollen to such a height that many boats were wrecked. They overflowed their banks, and covering the near fields and crops, wrought much destruction. The spring and summer time was so wet that it seemed less a summer than a winter.