{"id":103,"date":"2012-02-22T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/22\/shopping-in-reykjavik-1874\/"},"modified":"2012-02-22T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T01:19:00","slug":"shopping-in-reykjavik-1874","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/22\/shopping-in-reykjavik-1874\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping In Reykjavik, 1874"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If your ancestors lived in Reykjavik or, more likely, visited there to trade, who would they have dealt with? Who were the people who decided what they’d be paid for their precious trade goods and what they’d paid for the supplies they needed to survive for a year?<\/p>\n

Richard Burton, 1874, gives a good picture of who made up the business establishment.<\/p>\n

Since the trading season was the summer when the weather was at its best, the traders would all be in Reykjavik but, not surprisingly, most of them left for Copenhagen as the trading season ended. From RB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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