Icebergs, Iceland and the fall of Rome

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/04/icebergs-iceland-and-the-fall-of-rome-new-evidence-reveals-the-impact-of-a-medieval-climate-crisis/

Over to you....

[Ian61]

Interviewer: "Have you heard that they have found new cause for the collapse of the Roman Empire?"
Bristolian wargamer: "Oh no! Not another one."
     

[Imperial Dave]

Oh yes.....

[Erpingham]

It is surely only a matter of time (and indeed may already have happened) when someone says "The Roman Empire fell due to a "perfect storm" where barbarians, lead poisoning, icebergs, environment, social decline, Christianity and plague all got together to overwhelm it".

Incidentally, it did seem to me that an event dated to 540 AD and after could be the cause of the fall of the Western Empire was a bit odd.

[Cantabrigian]

Incidentally, it did seem to me that an event dated to 540 AD and after could be the cause of the fall of the Western Empire was a bit odd.

Presumably the aliens warned them that it was about to happen.

[Keraunos]

Rome did not fall until 1922, as any fule knowe!