>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/ ------------------------------ End of Glorantha Digest, Vol 11, Issue 300 ******************************************
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