[tied] Re: All of creation in Six and Seven

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
>
> Torsten:
> >I'm sorry. I thought the Mediterranean was a sea.
>
> Very good, Torsten. You're learning... barely. Now I already said

that the

> IE did not live on the sea.
>
>
> >Repeat: the Don is a wide and quiet river.
>
> If I come from Egypt to Crete to trade my goods, do you honestly

think

> that I'm going to home-deliver up the Don??? Because that's what

you're

> saying. No, I'm gonna head on back to Egypt and let somebody else
> transfer the goods up the Don. As soon as I've traded my goods for
> what I need, I don't care where they end up. I've got my stuff. I'm
> happy. Somebody else is going to profit for themselves by trading

what

> were my goods for what _they_ need. That's how a trading network
> works.
>
>
> >No, it involves some people sailing on the Don.
>
> Yes, it does. They are the linguistic "intermediaries". They are

not the

> three wise men from afar. They are local traders.
>
>

You know many things, don't you, Glen?

The vikings sailed on seas and rivers with the same boats. Up the
Thames, up the Elbe, up the Rhine, up the Seine, up the Neva.
Transshipment ports (Hamburg, London, Cologne, all the ports of the
Baltic) became necessary when the Hanse took over with their 300 t
cogs, as opposed to the viking ship's 30 t.

Torsten