Over the Hill Gaming"Adventurers! Your quest is to collect what the peasants owe to their lord!"
"Taxes?"
"Rent."
"Silver?"
"Eels."
"What."
"Y'all wouldn't shut up about historical accuracy."
Medieval English paid their rents with smoked eels. Such payments were increasingly replaced by currency starting in the 13th century, but it continued into the 17th.
Tweet with photo:
https://twitter.com/greenleejw/status/1204839635802841095?s=20&t=pcbEE0v6PsthNf8IcdXytw
Numbers & interactive map: http://historiacartarum.org/eel-rents-project/english-eel-rents-10th-17th-centuries/
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD on Twitter
“So you're a medieval landlord, collecting property rent from your peasants in eels. How do you measure them? Eels were usually counted in units called sticks (25 eels) -- likely from the number of eels you can smoke on a stick at one time. 10 sticks of eels was called a bind.”
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