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Why assume it's not just some poetic license on the part of the writer here.
by paleotrope 5y ago
Why assume it's not just some poetic license on the part of the writer here.
- Archelaos 5y agoThis is the reason for my question. The whole paragraph is about trade goods from afar. I have heared about everything the author mentions except jute ropes. So is this just idle talk or really fact?
- eyko 5y ago"Prize-winning poet Shelley Puhak is the author of the new book The Dark Queens, from which this story is adapted." I don't know if the author is a historian, and she doesn't present herself as one. I'd take that into account when reading the article/story.
- paleotrope 5y agoI would also add that it's not likely that someone would bother transporting slaves in wagon carts, especially in 6th century northern europe.