Chapter 42： Special knowledge on the board

Obviously, the "Book of Rome" collected by Veria is indeed a rare treasure, but its content is written in classical Latin throughout, and it is impossible to understand the content of Rurik.

Unless, a Roman priest who is proficient in ancient Latin teaches him himself, it is very unrealistic to think of this kind of thing.

After reading it a lot, Rurik made a decision.

"I'm looking for a new wooden box to keep it, maybe it's the most suitable to keep it in a dry room. If it's in my house, I'm afraid it will be damaged."

Villa nodded: "Well, I will find a new lock. I hope you will keep your promise."

"I will. But I'm a little curious. The text in the book seems to be a kind of animal skin." Rurik said this deliberately. He guessed that it was parchment, but he didn't understand the Latin word for parchment. Is the Greek pronunciation.

"It's made of sheepskin. It's easier to use than our oak board. Unfortunately, we don't have a way to make it." Veria sighed a little, "If we could also use specially processed sheepskin as the Romans. The materials, look at the wooden boards in this house, can actually be turned into a few books."

Lurik deeply felt Veria's yearning and respect for the far south. Perhaps it was this kind of emotion that made her accept the gift of the man in black.

It was getting late, and Rurik had dinner in the chief priest's house.

The so-called dinner is a bit of boiled and salted porridge and some marinated meat.

Dinner is dull. The people of the entire Ross tribe have not seen the real delicacies of mountains and seas. A touch of honey on the tip of the tongue can make them feel that Valhalla is nothing more than that.

Lurik had to get used to all this, only when he grew up, he could display his personal ambitions for the tribe.

No one understands what kind of prosperity he did to "bring prosperity to the tribe".

Everyone’s concept of happiness is very simple. Every tribe’s small family can live in a warm house. They will not be hungry and full throughout the year. They have enough comfortable clothes and daily necessities to have multiple children and the whole family is healthy. On this basis, there is more wealth.

However, in the current era, Scandinavia is a barren world on a macro scale.

Those who are the most adventurous thinking sub-people, that is, the Swedes, will leave their inherent homeland.

The crazy "Viking Age" ended by those who stayed can only continue to live in the still barren region of Svealand, until the Swedes' monarch thought of establishing a country by trade. Selling their own iron products for profit made the Swedes a fortune hundreds of years later. They further strengthened the processing technology of iron products, actively developed ocean-going trade, and eventually became the largest industrial power in Northern Europe.

These are the glory of the descendants of the Mind-Human tribal alliance after a thousand years.

Unfortunately, these glory have nothing to do with the Ross tribe.

just because they moved out of their clan.

The resources near Fort Rose were consumed on a large scale, and crazy hunters made the large beasts afraid to approach this fjord. For the development of this subway mine, the blacksmiths in Roseburg have no more ideas.

Perhaps the tribe’s departure does not require any external stimuli, and the departure is due to fate. Just like a nomadic people, when a grazing pasture is eaten up by sheep, the migration of the entire tribe is also inevitable.

After Rurik officially came into contact with the wooden planks with the written words, in the days that followed, when he woke up, he would hurry to the priest’s long house. The letter version he carved is a "translation board" that can be used at any time.

He was pleasantly surprised that the "ancient books" compiled in the Rune alphabet had sentence breaks, so it was not difficult to read them.

Actually, in just three days, Rurik had read all the wood planks in Veria's collection, which made him proud to spy on the past of the Ross people.

They, including themselves, are real Swedes!

It was another cold morning. Even though it was not a clock, Rurik estimated by his feeling that the time he woke up was probably ten o'clock in the morning.

Everything is really just feeling, because he feels that the sun will rise to the highest point without much time.

Although it is noon, the angle of the sun is really bad.

It was this morning, Rurik told her the profound feelings of studying in three days in front of Veria.

"Grandma, I think my mind is very smart. I understand all the wooden boards you have stored, and I have written down all the contents. I also know about the past of our Ross people."

Villa was very surprised for a while, "My child, you mean, you have completely learned that knowledge?"

"Yes. For example, I know that we moved to Roseburg seventy years ago, and we also drove out the Finns. Our homeland was once in the south, and the tribes moved one hundred and fifty rosts before arriving here."

In fact, Rurik was also very surprised that the Ross tribe, or the entire Viking group, they all have clear weights and measures.

He is not quite sure how far the vocabulary of the unit of length transcribed into rost in the Roman alphabet is. Considering that its meaning is "a traveler walks from one stop to another half of the distance", its definition is too vague, after all It is by no means a short distance unit.

Lurik estimated that this rost is the basic distance unit commonly used by the Ross people.

It is indeed very "basic", because it is the concept equivalent to "km" commonly used by the Vikings. The unit of length is converted to the metric length after a thousand years, which is very close to 1,600 meters.

Not only this, Rurik got more concepts of weights and measures from those wooden boards with great historical significance. Whoever sculpted the words on the wooden board, and listened to Veria's explanation, part of it was the masterpiece of the predecessors, and most of it was herself.

Lurik asked by the way: "Grandma, I now know exactly what kind of money I should pay for exchanging animal skins and cloths with distant merchants. How to determine a distance from our Roseburg to a far away place. I even have it. Can you know how to determine my own height. It seems that you have carved all this information on the board."

At this moment, Veria was moved by the young Rurik.

She bluntly said: "Yes! Those are all carved by me, just to ensure that people in the future will not suffer losses when exchanging animal skins and get lost when sailing. I think all people in the tribe should know the unit of length most. , So that when they cut down the big tree to make the keel of a ship, they will not fail to estimate the wrong length, and will not cut out inappropriate clothes.

It's a pity that they would rather believe in their common sense, but they don't know that the simplest things often need to be clearly defined to prevent slow changes from going against the original intention. "

Rurik nodded. He really understood what Villa meant, and he was quite emotional. He didn't expect an old man who lived in the ninth century in his seventies and was very clearly aware of the importance of ensuring the standards of weights and measures. significance.

Regarding weights and measures, each country and each nation often has its own unique definition, but after all, world trade is convergent and internationalized.

Merchants are always preoccupied, in order to pursue fairness between buyers and sellers. Then the conversion of different units of measurement often saves some fractions, so some people will always suffer. Perhaps, Rome’s influence can still cover the entire Europe, and Rome’s weights and measures will continue to be used, and the trade situation in ancient Europe will be better.

Of course not so!

The Frankish Empire has its own set of regulations, and the Visigothic Kingdom has its own. In the chaotic British countries, weights and measures can be described as diverse.

East Rome still has a huge influence, and their weights and measures have been far from the unified Rome of the past.

Even the Circum-Baltic region has its own distinctive system of weights and measures. This is what Roseburg uses, but the residents of Novgorod, the "servants" of the Rus, also have their own system of weights and measures of the Slavic tribes. .

Therefore, business people must have good enough verbal numeracy skills, otherwise they will suffer a big loss!

Based on these elements, Rurik asked tentatively: "Grandma, should you have a way to measure my height? You should always have a twine with a length of only one stika (about 98 cm), right?"

Villa's eyes lit up, and she asked Rurik to wait for a while, then stood up from the animal skin she was sitting on, and soon brought a thick hemp rope stained with dark red moss.