More on the spices from the Gribshunden

I posted recently in Late fifteenth century Scandinavian Court cuisine about the archaeological analysis of the spices found in the hold of the Gribshunden, the flagship of King Hans I of the Kalmar Union of the Scandinavian kingdoms, which sank in the waters of the Baltic in 1495. 

Having written that piece I have now found an article in Newsweek which gives much more detail about the spices, their variety, quantity and scarcity, and it is one which repays reading. It can be seen at Shipwreck of 500-year-old floating castle found to contain "thrilling haul"