 The man who is to be a trader will have to brave many perils, sometimes at sea and sometimes in heathen lands, but nearly always among alien peoples; and it must be his constant purpose to act discreetly wherever he happens to be. On the sea he must be...  Social Scandinavia in the Viking Age - Page 235by Mary Wilhelmine Williams - 1920 - 451 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Civilización escandinavia - 1917 - 416 pages
...lands occupied by Esquimaux, though he makes no mention of these people anywhere in his work. When you are in a market town, or wherever you are, be...then you will secure the friendship of all good men. Make it a habit to rise early in the morning, and go first and immediately to church wherever it seems... | |
 | Henry Goddard Leach - History - 1921 - 472 pages
...port gives life to our dry documents concerning Norwegian traders at Grimsby, Boston, and Lynn: When you are in a market town, or wherever you are, be...then you will secure the friendship of all good men. Make it a habit to rise early in the morning, and go first and immediately to church wherever it seems... | |
 | Jacques Le Goff - History - 1995 - 406 pages
...purpose to act discreetly wherever he happens to be. On the sea he must be alert and fearless. When you are in a market town, or wherever you are, be...then you will secure the friendship of all good men. (Trans. Larson, as for following quotations) The merchant must study carefully the commercial customs... | |
 | Nancy Marie Brown - Excavations (Archaeology) - 2007 - 332 pages
...thirteenth-century handbook that gives this advice to businessmen: "On the sea . . . be alert and fearless. When you are in a market town, or wherever you are, be...then you will secure the friendship of all good men." The writer, a priest who served three kings of Norway as chancellor and military adviser, asserts:... | |
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