the un-divine intervention

Volcanology: A song of ice and fire

The summer of 821 yielded a poor harvest. In winter, blizzards smothered the land. Spring brought plague and famine. Paschasius Radbertus, a monk in what is now northern France, wrote that God Himself was angry. Yet it was not God that wrought the destruction, but a volcano on a then unknown island that is now called Iceland. An Icelandic forest and ice cores from Greenland provide clues to the un-divine intervention