I remember one of you history buffs told me that kilometres should not be used in Medieval HF.
Does the same apply to Metres?
Does the same apply to Metres?
Paces.How should I describe 20 metres? the height of twelve men, maybe?
I try and avoid using numbers as measures in fiction -- even modern fiction -- because numbers don't have much mood. Instead I try and use qualities whenever sensible, unless a precise quantity is needed. So 'noon' becomes 'lunchtime', and 'twenty metres' becomes 'a spearcast', 'a few boatlengths', 'a bell-tower's shadow' or 'a Hail Mary stroll' -- whatever suits the characters and situation.
It's a stroll of around 20 metres, of course.What's 'a Hail Mary stroll'?
It's a stroll of around 20 metres, of course.
I figured it's about as far as you'd get at a crisp stroll reciting a Hail Mary. It's obviously a much shorter distance than a Paternoster Gallop, say.
How much of our current terminology is of very recent invention, and we take it all for granted.
A gallon of ale didn't measure the same as a gallon of wine.
In Euclid's time frame this uniformity was still far in the future.