> Climate-wise, I think Sartar is closer to Britain
> than Italy; but
> maybe they practice transhumance in Heortland.
...
> Milking the herds would sometimes be done up on the
> high pasture, and
> the milk turned into cheese or butter up at the
> shielings.
>
> Bear in mind that in Sartar, a high pasture might be
> in sight of the
> stead, but half a day's walk away, up on the
> mountainside.
For some really light-weight (but probably accurate) reading on the way things were done in the Alps, try "Heidi". Well, I enjoyed it as a small child, anyway. You'd better substitute sheep for the goats, though :)
ftp://sailor.gutenberg.org/pub/gutenberg/etext98/heidi11.txt
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