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The Price of Honey

October 25, 2019 Saxo Eastern Europe, Human Affairs

THE SCENE: Life in medieval Bulgaria.

THE TEXT: “There is much honey in their forests, in beehives, and they know where to find it. They set out to search for it, but sometimes a band of enemies falls upon them and kills them.”

– Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness, Ibn Fadlan, 922 AD

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