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What was the price of gold in 1522 in relation to today’s dollar?

Posted on October 26, 2017

Previous post explored a comment by Eric Metaxas in his book, Martin Luther, The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World, that the first printing of Luther’s translation of the New Testament cost half a gulden for an unbound copy and a gulden for a bound copy. In that post I calculated that the […]

Viking Era

Guess on volume of trade in Gotland during Viking Age

Posted on October 17, 2017December 31, 2017

The Viking, by Tre Tryckare, copyright 1967, has some fun speculation on the volume of annual trade in a major Viking trading town in Sweden. The large island of Gotland, off the eastern shore of Sweden, is about 1,229 square miles in size. It was a major trading center during the Viking age. Page 51 […]

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