A question for #Histodon :
I am currently translating a folk tale which involves a woman who has traveled in a coach for "six hundred hours" (I am assuming that this is pure travel time, leaving out breaks) in order to reach her husband in southern Hesse.
So now I am curious: What kind of distance might this represent, given #travel speeds in the mid-17th century when this incident allegedly took place?
#history #folktale #folklore
https://archive.org/details/hessischesagen01wolfgoog/page/n79/mode/2up
Jürgen Hubert
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