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(I don’t know what Sarah’s father did for the cobbler. It was a craft, something he bartered for shoes. Something to do with fishing nets. The village was right by the sea. It was the only cobbler’s shop in quite a few villages around there, and there was a lot of community bartering going on. Sarah’s father made fishnets out of seaweed, dried seaweed, sounds crazy, doesn’t it? They wove it together like rope, then made the nets.

(The fishermen had plain wooden boats, not canoes. I don’t know what kind of fish it was, but they had piles of it on a good day. Blackish fish, some of it only a few inches long, some much longer, averaging maybe a foot in length. Yes, they had fish all year long, it wasn’t seasonal. The water was warm in the winter. That’s why it was so foggy. They didn’t farm too much because the ground was poor and rocky and very hilly, so they depended on the fish.

(The fish were mackerel.

(I can more or less see the main street. I see houses and a couple of shops, then a narrow cobbled walk raised up high—it was a partly dirt road built up of rocks and stones that ran around an inlet from the sea. But it was never flooded, the road kept the village dry. There wasn’t any sandy beach. No, I wouldn’t know it if I saw it, it’s not there now. I don’t think I’d know the spot. It was just this little inlet, with the rocky hills and not much grass. It wasn’t a seaport, big ships couldn’t get in close. There was just room enough for their little boats to go out after fish.

(In the inn there was a huge fireplace. Their dishes were made of earthenware. They had ale, they served lots of ale at meals. Their meat was ribs, they had mutton ribs, I think. And something called braunschweiger. They had bread, barley bread and soup. Fish soup and mussels. They didn’t have salt. They had beans, I don’t know what kind.

(But they boiled the water when they made soups and kept it cleaner that way. This killed a lot of germs. The fish were always available. So they were a lot healthier than other communities that actually had more water. These other places were sicker because the water was polluted. They used natural liquids from the animals when they made stews.