This week , just a few days after Queen Elizabth II die after a 70 - yr farseeing sovereignty and was replaced by her son as the new King of England , ameteor flew across the skies of the UK .
Of course in modern times we take in that this is just a coincidence of timing , and that so many objectsfall out of the skyyou can tie it to any meaning you like . Maybe it is a sign of a causeless Bin Day , for instance . In one C plump by , however , these were often ascertain as bad omens for royal line and their reigns . Game of Thrones , George R. R. Martin ’s approximation of Middle Ages Britain with add flying lizard , even featured a scarlet comet that was construe across the skies of Westeros not long after the startle of the warfare following the King ’s decease .
Quite a few accounts throughout the real Middle Ages show fireballs in the sky being taken as signs , with events often retrospectively being assigned to the forged omen . Let ’s take a look at some other " ill-starred " British monarchs and see what may be in store forKing Charles III .
King Harold and Halley’s Comet
Ohe most celebrated examples is the inclusion of Halley ’s comet on the Bayeux Tapestry . In the scene , Harold is crowned King of England on January 6 , 1066 . Shortly afterwards , the comet is seen , and people channelize at it , interpret it as a bad omen , and become panic-stricken .
The rest of the tapestry also testify Harold being shot in the heart , thoughaccounts from the timesay his end involve him being jab through the chest , decollate , his entrails " liquefied " with a spear , before his thigh was edit off and carried " some length " away . Which we guess does make a less pleasing tapestry .
Edgar the Peacful and the comet of bad luck
In 959 CE , Edgar the Peaceful became king of England . As his name suggest , his reign wasrelatively peaceful . In 975 , the last year of his reign , a comet was check fly above , which was take as a sign of a coming shortage and his death .
“ Then too was check , high in the heavens , the wizard on his station , that far and wide saucy men call – lovers of Sojourner Truth and heav’nly lore – ‘ cometa ’ by name , " one 10th centuryaccount translate . " wide was spread God ’s vengeance then throughout the land , and famine scour’d the hills . May heaven ’s guardian , the halo of angels , avert these ills , and give us bliss again ; that bliss to all abundance yields from earth ’s selection yield , throughout this happy isle . ”
The next year saw a dearth blamed on the impeccant comet , minding its own business hurling its elbow room through blank , as well as some horrendous governance .
" And this year Edward , Edgar ’s Logos , succeed to the kingdom ; and then shortly , in the same year , during harvest , appeared " cometa " the mavin ; and then come in the following year a very great shortage , and very multiplex to-do among the English hoi polloi , " theAnglo Saxon Chronicles read .
The year the Thames went dry
1114 CE check a chain of high-risk and unconnected outcome get blamed on a comet .
" This year , in the latter end of May , was seen an rare star with a longsighted train , shining many nights , " according to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle , about to blame it for the weather and the demise of an archbishop . " In this year also was so great an reflux of the tide everywhere in one day , as no man remembered before ; so that hands went ride and walking over the Thames eastwards of London span .
" This year were very violent winds in the calendar month of October .. and Thomas , Archbishop of York , died " .
And now we wait to see what may be atributed to this innocent outer space rock-and-roll . Ofcourse , itmay not be a distance rock . If it turns out to be space junk that ’s awhole other portent .
