Latest news from the salt trade circa 1550
How's this for "news"? A new publication by Aharon Oren, a Jewish professor of plant and environmental sciences in Jerusalem, discusses the politics of salt trading in16th century Scandinavia as reported (in Latin) by Olaus Magnus, a contemporaneus Swedish clergyman living in Rome. And we just thought the world was getting smaller in the age of jets and rockets. The article appears in the current issue of El Alfolí, published by Salinas de Interior in Spain. See page 12.
