Annals

Who's that French analyst? Uh, your guest a while ago, Daniel Molino, was talking about him.

Um, the Annals of Saint-Bertin-

Mm

... has Vikings in Provence, right?

And so that's, it's...

So they, there's a lot of activity already very early on.

And then the Annals of Saint Burton, uh, Saint-Bertin, I don't know.

They, it hurts my ears when I hear Burton.

While the sources don't confirm this, we must conclude that he received reinforcements between February and June 1177.

However, what we can confirm is that the Annals of Ulster record the construction of a castle at Down, so John was clearly busy during the four months between the battles.

That does not tell us the precise size of this castle, but it must have been made from timber.

Neither do we know the height of its defences or anything other than the fact that the Normans had a much stronger position to defend than the first battle.

Their presence could offer reassurance and give a shared purpose to these warriors drawn from different territories.

So the Gaelic men marched into battle with the sacred relics of the North.

And unlike the First Battle of Down, which is described in great detail, Gerald and the Annals only provide us with a very limited description of what happens next, but the Gaelic are defeated.

According to McCarty's book, it says that the Gaelic army reached down and fled without striking a blow, abandoning the clergy and relics.

Above all, it is the story of Aymar, remembered by the annalists as the King of the Norsemen.

The earliest source and contemporary reference of Aymar comes in the Irish Annals under the year 857.

The Annals of Ulster record that Aymar and Amliab, the ruler traditionally identified with Olaf the White, inflicted a defeat upon Catil the Fair and his Norse-Irish followers in Munster.

It is a remarkably short entry, but it immediately reveals several important things.

Aymar was already operating alongside Olaf as a commander capable of leading an army far from Dublin.

The fact that Aymar appears beside Olaf in this campaign also tells us something about his rank.

Olaf had already been recognised as one of the dominant Scandinavian figures in Ireland.

Four years earlier, the Annals of Ulster had recorded his arrival and stated that the foreigners of Ireland submitted to him and that he took tribute from the Irish.

Certain letters, as used in certain parts of the manuscript, emerged definitely and unmistakably, and it became obvious that the text was, indeed, in English.

On the evening of September 2nd, the last major barrier gave way, and Dr. Armitage read for the first time a continuous passage of Wilbur Waitley's Annals.

it was in truth a diary as all had thought and it was couched in a style clearly shewing the mixed occult erudition and general illiteracy of the strange being who wrote it almost the first long passage that armitage deciphered an entry dated november twenty sixth nineteen sixteen proved highly startling and disquieting it was written he remembered by a child of three and a half who looked like a lad of twelve or thirteen Today learned the aklo for the Sabbath it ran, which did not like, it being answerable from the hill and not from the air.

That upstairs more ahead of me than I had thought it would be, and it not like to have much earth brain.

Two, Hellenistic reproductions of the biblical history by Alexandrians such as Demetrius and Artapanus.

Three, secular historians and non-biblical documents such as Berossus, the Annals of Tyre, etc.

The number of authorities named under this last head is considerable, but it is probable that many of them were known to Josephus only through the great universal history of Nicolaus of Damascus, the friend of Herod the Great and Augustus, to which he is largely indebted throughout the whole of Antiquities.

For the centuries following the captivity, his authorities are unfortunately scanty and of little value.

He remained in favor with Tiberius, who, on his death, about AD twenty-one, secured him a public funeral.

A mutilated inscription found near Tivoli, Tiber, seems to prove that he was twice governor of Syria.

Tacitus, Annals, Roman numeral three, forty-eight, and twenty-two.

Suetonius, Tiberius, forty-nine.

Certain letters, as used in certain parts of the manuscript, emerged definitely and unmistakably, and it became obvious that the text was indeed in English.

On the evening of September 2nd the last major barrier gave way, and Dr. Armitage read for the first time a continuous passage of Wilbur Waitley's Annals.

It was in truth a diary, as all had thought.

and it was couched in a style clearly showing the mixed occult erudition and general illiteracy of the strange being who wrote it.