Geology / Other

599AD

Event #4257: Fish are killed by boiling lake water in Lake of Thun

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Geographical sites:

  • Lake of Dunum (click here to focus in map)

Citations:

Text #5854

Fredegar. The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar
[Fred. Chron. 18. Translated by John Michael Wallace-Hadrill. Oxford University Press. 1960 p. 12]

[…] and in the same year the water of the Lake of Thun1, into which flows the river Aar2, became so hot that it boiled and cooked shoals of fish. Also in this year died Warnachar, mayor of the palace to Theuderic. He distributed all his goods in alms to the poor.

  1. Thunersee near Berne [OF] ↩

  2. Its Latin name was Arola [nE] ↩

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