536 AD: A Volcanic Murder Mystery: The Show Notes
Here’s that documentary we mentioned in the episode:
Other sources include:
Mythcrafts: “From King Arthur to Newly Discovered Runes: The Year With No Sun”
Stack Exchange: What are some Chinese sources testifying the extreme weather events of 535-536 CE?
Ann Gibbons: “Eruption made 536 ‘the worst year to be alive.’” Science Magazine
Thoughtco: “The Dust Veil Environmental Disaster of AD 536.”
“A CONDENSED TRANSLATION OF THE VARIAE EPISTOLAE OF MAGNUS AURELIUS CASSIODORUS SENATOR.”
Matthew L. Simon and Nathan A. Quarderer. “AD 536: The Worst Year Ever and Our New Ragnarok.”
“Climate and society impacts in Scandinavia following the 536/540 CE volcanic double event.”
PROCOPIUS: HISTORY OF THE WARS, BOOKS III AND IV. Trans. H. B. Dewing
“The Maya collapse: a history in three volcanoes.” Volcano Cafe
Shannon Hall: “Volcanic Eruption May Have Plunged the Maya into a “Dark Age”.” Scientific American
Ann Gibbons: “Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive.” Science.org
“A revised age of AD 667–699 for the latest major eruption at Rabaul.”
Smithsonian Institution article on the crater lake at El Chichon
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