Brannhold

Four watch-forts on the sulphur road cover the benches Grivane works, paid at one barrel in twenty and the cut fuel the forts burn. They stand where the pilgrim track and the cart road run together, which suits Brannhold's collectors better than it suits Grivane's carters.

Nine hundred marks advanced against three seasons of offerings at Brannhold's cairn-field, secured on the pilgrim landing and the fodder sheds behind it. A poor third season would leave Nuirendil's clerks holding four acres of black sand and a claim on a temple's door money.

Seven hundred sacks of barley and lentils come up the caravan road to Brannhold for the pilgrim season, traded against oil and taken at the wharf price. The assembly's fifth is paid on the landing and Brannhold puts it into the cost of a burial.

Brannhold takes the poorer half of the bodies landed at Brannhold into its cairn-field and charges no carriage for them, which Dunmoral's registrars have twice described at the Forge as a fraud upon the dead. Neither filing named a sum, since traffic that pays no carriage is counted nowhere.

Ground rents at Brannhold are cut in lead and Karagunn will match the halves at its own gate, so the grazing leases are good in a Kazdrunn gate and nowhere on the March. The Falkvald assembly does not hear a bargain nobody swore aloud, and Brannhold has stopped putting them to it.