Heritage network for Transportation of 4 legged animals
Food has always been transported from one area to another – from one part of Europe to other parts of Europe. A section of this trade has been ‘self-transportable’ food - animals that were able to walk.
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The Danish NAVE Nortrail consortium has started a “Heritage Network” with the subject of this transportation and trade with four-legged animals. This has been written mainly bythe museum-people working with the western ox trail in Jutland. |
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Our main interest is of course the transportation on this ox trail with the road, the bridges, the inns and so on, but connected with this is the shipping of oxen from the harbours along the coast; the merchants and other people who took part in the trade and transportation; the consumer part in German, English and Dutch towns etc. We of course know that the Danish trade and transportation of oxen and other animals is only a minor part of the trade in Europe as a whole. This type of transportation and trade has taken place in smaller or bigger scale nearly all over Europe. |
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| As our work with the western ox trail in Jutland is part of the Nortrail project, we would like to have contact with others in “the Nortrail areas”, others who are interested in this kind of trade and transportation. We would like to be able to put the Danish history into perspective in the North Sea–area and be able to make lines of connections and comparisons with similar stories told along the North Sea Trail. |
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