Rosemary Tea
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Summer is here and I'm looking over a past story I wrote about characters in a medieval-ish world and their summer. One thing they do is go swimming. As I have it now, they're swimming in the river that runs by their town.
But being on this site has taught me that in that setting, a river would be very heavily trafficked, especially in the summertime. It would be the main transportation artery, so full of boats. It would also be where all sorts of wastes get dumped.
I don't have fecal matter being dumped in the river in this setting, because I've gone with the idea that they use composting toilets and night soil fields as the primary method of human waste disposal. But all other ancient uses of rivers would still apply. So... would they really want to swim in the river? How realistic is that?
But being on this site has taught me that in that setting, a river would be very heavily trafficked, especially in the summertime. It would be the main transportation artery, so full of boats. It would also be where all sorts of wastes get dumped.
I don't have fecal matter being dumped in the river in this setting, because I've gone with the idea that they use composting toilets and night soil fields as the primary method of human waste disposal. But all other ancient uses of rivers would still apply. So... would they really want to swim in the river? How realistic is that?