Although their reputation has now been partly rehabilitated and they are recognised as traders, farmers, and brilliant shipwrights and metal and craft workers, a poem written in the margin of an Irish manuscript records a monk's relief that the wild seas that night were too rough even for Vikings.
A spokesperson for Borough market management says: "We recognise that traders will always play a vital role and Borough Market will continue to value their contribution.
"We were one of the original traders," says Paul O'Brien of De Gustibus, "We are going to have to make staff redundant now, and everyone in the market is worrying about who's going to go next". A spokesperson for Borough market management says: "We recognise that traders will always play a vital role and Borough Market will continue to value their contribution.
The TSI has also unveiled a consumer codes scheme aimed at recognising trusted traders through approval schemes.
Benfica have now joined their arch-rivals Porto in being recognised around Europe as master traders.
But he added: "We also need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders to recognise, that in finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error, and to ensure that we address the fundamentals of what went wrong".
The inhabitants there are mainly Kaman Muslims, relatively prosperous traders and boat-owners who, unlike the widely-despised Rohingyas, are recognised as citizens by the government.
In central Mogadishu the Bakara market is now free of the militant jihadists, and traders can breathe more easily.Not surprisingly, the unelected but internationally recognised Somali transitional government crowed in triumph.
"The individual traders and industry representatives that would be adversely impacted by a ban also recognised that action is needed," the report stated.
Some of the losses were brutally immediate: dozens of traders turned up to work at offices in London this week to find that their security passes were no longer recognised.
