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Biblios Chronike (aka Annals) by Michael Glycas

Background and Biography
Background and Biography

Excerpts, Chronology, Seismic Effects, and Locations
Talking Mule Quake

Excerpts

English from Migne (1866)

the land split in Mesopotamia and a mule came out speaking of the affairs of men and predicted invasion by a foreign army.

Latin from Migne (1866)

Cumque terra dehisceret in Mesopotamia, mulus exiit, humanaque voce secutoros hostium incursus denuntiavit.

Seismic Effects
  • Earth Fissures in Mesopotamia - the land split in Mesopotamia
Locations
  • Mesopotamia

Sources
Sources

Online Versions and Further Reading
References