Kalends of January
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. AD 986 alias 987.
The battle of Manu was won by Aralt's son and the Danes, and a thousand were slain therein.
A great outbreak of St Vitus' Dance, and it caused death to a large number of people and cattle among the Saxons and Welsh and Irish.
A great slaughter of the Danes who plundered Í, and three score and three hundred of them were slain.