an eclipse
of the Moon on Jan. 15. The middle of the eclipse occurred at 8h. 34m.,
9/10ths of the Moon's upper limb having been obscured.

Under the date of 806 the _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_ says:--"This year was
the Moon eclipsed on the Kalends [1st] of September; and Eardwulf, King
of the Northumbrians, was driven from his kingdom, and Eanberht, Bishop
of Hexham, died." This eclipse was total, the totality lasting from
9h. 37m. to 10h. 59m. p.m.

On Feb. 15, 817, according to the _Annales Fuldenses_, an eclipse of the
Moon was observed in the early evening at Paris, and on the same night a
Comet was seen. This Comet is described by another authority as a
"monstrous" one and as being in Sagittarius on Feb. 5. The Chinese date
it for Feb. 17, and place it near the stars [Greek: alpha] and [Greek:
gamma] Tauri.

In 828 two lunar eclipses were seen in Europe, the first on July 1 very
early in the morning, and the second on the morning of Christmas Day.
The _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_ thus speaks of the second eclipse:--"In this
year the Moon was eclipsed on Mid-winter's Mass-night, and the same year
King Ecgbryht subdued the kingdom of the Mercians and all that was South
of the Humber." The totality occurred after midnight. There is some
confusion in the year of this eclipse, the _Chronicle_ giving it as 827,
whilst calculation shows that it must have been 828. Lynn defines
"Mid-winter's Mass-night" as Christmas _Eve_.

Under the date of 904 the _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_ says:--"In this year
the Moon was eclipsed." There were two total eclipses of the Moon this
year, one on May 31, and the other on Nov. 25, and it does not appear
which one is referred to in the _Chronicle_ cited. Another writer,
Cedrenus, speaks of a great eclipse of the Moon this year which he says
foretold the death of a kinsman of the Emperor.

On October 6, 1009, there was a total eclipse of the Moon which
presumably is referred to in the statement that "this year the Moon was
changed into blood."

On Nov. 8, 1044, there was a large partial eclipse in the morning. Raoul
Glaber[131] (a French chronicler who died about 1050) comments upon it
thus:--"In what manner it happened, whether a prodigy brought to pass by
the Deity or by the intervention of some heavenly body, remains known to
the author of knowledge. For the Moon herself became like dark blood,
only getting clear of it a little before the dawn." Truly those times
were the "Dark Ages" in which ig