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   Stevan (withaveeay@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 05:02:33 JST Stevan

   2. But look up, and the huge chandelier is ringed with coats of arms of the trades for whom this hall exists
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     @withaveeay @gemlog

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelyard

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     @gemlog @walfischbucht@norden.socialThe trade covered the east coast of the British isles too, although I don't think any were Hanseatic cities.

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     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League

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     Stevan (withaveeay@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 05:02:29 JST Stevan

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     @walfischbucht Had things worked out just a little differently, we'd be talking more about Hanseatic connections.

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     Nice find. But that's progress, or not?Just a bit earlier they and their descendants would have been stuck in their namesake guilds from birth to grave.

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     Stevan (withaveeay@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 05:02:31 JST Stevan

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     5. But these boards of the High Heid Yins, the Deacon Conveners, caught my eye all day. Some of the boards go back to the 16th century. But what bothers me is the anti-nominative determinism
     We have a Smith who is a tailor, a Maltman who is a flesher, a Wright who was a cordiner and a Millar who is a maltman.
     Fortunately in another board. there is a Mason who was mason (and was probably a Mason too) so balance is restored to the universe.

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     Stevan (withaveeay@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 05:02:32 JST Stevan

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     3. I photographed all the coats of arms, but here's just 4, an interesting juxtaposition of heraldry and religion.
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     4. Not content with the heraldry alone, there are stylised images representing each trade all around the upper parts of the wall.
     It's Saturday, so lets' hear it for the maltmen.
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     @gemlog @walfischbucht And I love how the Fedi often makes me dust off long-forgotten learning from my degree!

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     @withaveeay @walfischbucht
     I love all the stuff I learn on fedi :-)

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     Stevan (withaveeay@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 22-Oct-2023 05:02:34 JST Stevan

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     • walfischbucht

     @walfischbucht @gemlog Ah yes, I was thinking about that but couldn't recall the name.
     Closer to home, places like Tain, a royal burgh since 1066 (and therefore allowed to trade on its own account) traded extensively into the Baltic. And even as late as the time of the Caledonian Canal, as we recently learnt, a lot of Baltic trade reached, for example, Dublin.