Trade

Everyone is very self-sufficient on their own land. Bartering and trading is for wants and luxuries, everything we need we make or get ourselves. Silver is a very acceptable form of payment, and ring-form is preferred since it is the easiest to carry. Auðin recently struck a deal for some very nice glass beads that came in on a trade ship. Its important to show your status in what you wear. Ribe is surrounded by a moat, since the fear of attack is always there. We don't want to look weak and defenseless to any ship who would consider raiding instead of trade. Ribe is also rather old for a town, and still here.

~Aldís~