And It Is Well A Three Journeys Of Such Way To Pass From Prussia To
The Land Of Saracens Habitable.
And it behoveth to the Christian
men, that shall war against them every year, to bear their victuals
with them; for they shall find there no good.
And then must they
let carry their victual upon the ice with cars that have no wheels,
that they clepe sleighs. And as long as their victuals last they
may abide there, but no longer; for there shall they find no wight
that will sell them any victual or anything. And when the spies
see any Christian men come upon them, they run to the towns, and
cry with a loud voice; KERRA, KERRA, KERRA. And then anon they arm
them and assemble them together.
And ye shall understand that it freezeth more strongly in those
countries than on this half. And therefore hath every man stews in
his house, and in those stews they eat and do their occupations all
that they may. For that is at the north parts that men clepe the
Septentrional where it is all only cold. For the sun is but little
or none toward those countries. And therefore in the Septentrion,
that is very north, is the land so cold, that no man may dwell
there. And, in the contrary, toward the south it is so hot, that
no man ne may dwell there, because that the sun, when he is upon
the south, casteth his beams all straight upon that part.
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