December 4, 2017Viking Era Units of measure and relative value in the Viking Age Before trying to quantify some sort of dollar value for items during the Viking era, let’s look at some relative values. My […]
December 4, 2017December 3, 2017Viking Era More background on brutality of Viking Era and revised assessment of Viking massacre sites – part 5 Life was violent in the middle ages. The Vikings were not the only vicious and brutal people around. In Vikings: Raiders, Traders, […]
November 13, 2017Viking Era What is the market value of sheep? What is the going price for sheep? We can use that information to develop some very rough approximations of prices during the […]
November 8, 2017January 1, 2018Viking Era Size of Viking raiding parties How many warriors did the Vikings put ashore during raids? The size of the raids grew over time, starting small with fast-strike […]
October 26, 2017comparison data, Other eras What was the price of gold in 1522 in relation to today’s dollar? Previous post explored a comment by Eric Metaxas in his book, Martin Luther, The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World, […]
October 24, 2017Other eras Price tag for the first New Testament printed in vernacular expressed in terms of the cost of a butchered hog I found an interesting way to convert the price of a New Testament bible in 1522 to current dollars. How does this […]
October 17, 2017December 31, 2017Viking Era Guess on volume of trade in Gotland during Viking Age The Viking, by Tre Tryckare, copyright 1967, has some fun speculation on the volume of annual trade in a major Viking trading […]
October 16, 2017December 31, 2017Viking Era Buried hoards of gold and silver One of the fascinating things to consider about the Viking and Roman ages is what economies looked like without a banking system […]
October 9, 2017April 8, 2019Viking Era Viking sword found in 2017 On 9/5/17, Secrets of the Ice reported Breaking News: A Viking Sword Found at High Altitude. Many other news sites reported this […]
October 6, 2017Viking Era Guesses on how much loot the Vikings hauled out of Europe – #3 Here are a few more guesses on the volume of precious metals flowing into the Viking lands. Overall impact on economy from […]