Re: Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 11, Issue 296

From: Donald R. Oddy <donald_at_grove.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:49:45 GMT


In message <434096F4.8020402_at_general.monash.edu.au> R Darvall writes:

>Doesn't Bad King Urgrain imprison or enslave the salt traders?
>Who are these salt traders?
>As to its need in settled communities, salt meat springs to mind.

Which requires a lot of salt. If salt is an import it is going to be far too expensive for preserving meat. Smoking is a much cheaper method.

Where salt is imported it is going to be used for cooking and doled out carefully to livestock.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/


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