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'''S. Frethorik'''

'''1. Second Bad Time'''

'''b. Fryasland Swamped'''

'''[[115|115.10]]''' The Magy was proud of his own cunning, but Earth would show him that she could allow neither a Magy nor idols at the holy seat where she bore Frya. Just as the wild horse shakes its mane after throwing its rider onto the grass, Earth shook her woods and mountains. Rivers were spread over the fields, the seas boiled, mountains spewed up to the clouds and, what they had disgorged, the clouds hurled back down upon Earth.

At the beginning of the Harvest month,<ref>Month names in this chapter: Harvest: August, Wolves’: December, Hard: January, Sol: February, Winne: May.</ref> Earth tilted northward and sank down, lower and lower.<ref>‘Earth tilted...’ — literal translation; it is not clear what actually happened.</ref> By the Wolves’ month, the low marks of Fryasland were covered by the sea. The woods where the images had been were heaved up and ravaged by storm. The following year, in the Hard month, frost came and buried old Fryasland under a sheet of ice. In the Selling month, a storm wind came '''[[116|[116]]]''' from the North, pushing forth mountains of ice and stones.

When spring came, Earth righted herself again. The ice melted away, ebb came, and the woods with the images drifted out to sea. In the Winne month, or Love month, all those who dared to do so returned home.

I came with a maiden to the burg Liudgarda. How sad it looked! The forests of the Linden Wards were mostly gone. Where the Liudgarda had been was the sea — its waves lashing the ring dyke. Ice had destroyed the tower and the buildings lay in jumbled heaps. On the slope of the dyke, I found a stone on which our scribe had carved his name. It was like a beacon to me.

The other burgs shared similar fates; in the highlands they were crushed by earth, in the lowlands by water. Only Fryasburg at Texland was found intact, but all the land that had lain northwards was under water and still has not been reclaimed.

Reportedly, the shores of the Flee Lake now had thirty salt marshes — formed where the woods had been swept away with root and soil. West Fleeland had fifty. 

The canal that had run across the land from the Alderga had been blocked by sand and was '''[[117|[117]]]''' lost. 

The navigators and other seafaring people who were home had saved themselves together with their close relatives and other kin upon their ships. But the black folk of Lydasburg and Alkmarum had done likewise and, as they drifted southwards, they rescued many girls. And, since no one came for them later, they kept them as their wives. 

The people who came back all made their homes within the ring dykes of the burgs because, without, all was mud and swampland. The unstable buildings were repaired. Cows and sheep were purchased from the upper lands and the large buildings that had formerly housed the maidens were now used to make cloth and felt for the sake of survival.

All this happened 1888 years after Atland sank.<ref>Disregarding the questionable linking of the Atland timeline to the Christian one by Hidde, this is the last use of it and the three eights in 1888 suggest it may have been an estimation or symbolic number. Linking this era to geological evidence of a cataclism in northern Europe or to (archaeological?) evidence of Alexander’s time (the classical dating of which is also questionable) would be more reliable.</ref>

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=={{Title other languages}}==
<span>
:<div class="emoji flag de"></div> '''[[DE115.10 Springflut]]'''
:<div class="emoji flag es"></div> '''[[ES115.10 Inundado]]'''
:<div class="emoji flag fs"></div> '''[[FS115.10 JÉR 1888|FS115.10 <span class="fryas">JÉR 1888</span>]]'''
:<div class="emoji flag nl"></div> '''[[NL115.10 Overspoeld]]'''
:<div class="emoji flag no"></div> '''[[NO115.10 Oversvømmet]]'''</span>

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Chapters S1 and S2: [[S1 Sandbach|Sandbach 1876]]

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