Fourteenth Century Copenhagen

The Merman's Children.

We have read about Copenhagen in the twentieth century here. In the fourteenth century:

stately moats, walls and watchtowers guard the city;

thatched, wooden houses are jammed along narrow, crooked, dirty streets crowded with drably clad laborers;

jugglers and fiddlers wear flamboyant rags;

there are also beggars, foreign sailors, mounted knights, rich merchants, courtesans in litters, swine, poultry, dogs and children;

wagons force their way between pedestrians;

sounds are voices, feet, wheels and hammers;

smells are smoke, dung, offal and graveyards;

"Here was the womb of the future." (p. 143)

Indeed but - time travelers and sf readers - let's escape back to that future!