Friday 23 October 2015

Norse Trade

Poul Anderson, Mother Of Kings (New York, 2003), Book Two, Chapter XIII, pp. 137-138.

Norse traders sail:

west to Iceland;
east to Lake Ladoga;
south to the Moors -

- and take furs and amber by horse or river to:

the Holy Roman Empire;
Gardariki;
Miklagard;
Serkland.

Chapmen plunder if they can do so without risk. Thus, they remain Vikings. They also carry intelligence to Eirik and Gunnhild in Norway. This single paragraph about trade routes introduces the next stage of Gunnhild's conflict with her enemies.

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