Re: Question regarding Plague 1349

From: Simon Pugh (News_at_mrzsp.demonX.co.uk)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:32:54 +0100

In message <e5l9c0d3e5ga3100sa85ang3k8pus84vro@4ax.com>, Eric Stevens
<eric.stevens@sum.co.nz> writes
>On 7 Jun 2004 05:53:55 -0700, frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
>wrote:
>
>>Julian Richards <see@sig.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:<hvb6c0ll5v2g5pko9utk6p5mbjs1458src@4ax.com>...
>>
>>> Lice on rats would have had a very hard time in the Icelandic climate.
>>
>>Iceland got hit very hard by the plague in 1402/1403, but rats were
>>only reported here in the early 18th century.
>>
>>As for the 1349 plague, I checked all the annals and all other sources
>>I could find, and I find mo mention whatsoever of the 1349 epihemic
>>having reached Iceland. I have additional book I need to check, but
>>that is at home.
>
>Sometime in the last two weeks I noted a refrence to new work which
>suggested that the plague was not Bubonic which requires fleas but
>something else which does not. The something else was identified but
>now I'm not sure what it was. Nor can I find the reference.
>
>
>
>Eric Stevens
>

You may be referring to Samuel K Cohn's book, The Black Death
Transformed. ISBN 0-340-70647-3

He has 3 pages on Iceland (pp 51-53)

He argues strongly against Yersinia pestis as the cause of the Black
Death, however his arguments are not widely accepted.. 

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