No. 27 (2019): German Trade in the North Atlantic c. 1400–1700. Interdisciplinary Perspectives

• Preface

  Natascha Mehler, Mark Gardiner, Endre Elvestad

  3-4

  • pdf

• Abbreviations

  7

  • pdf

• Introduction: German trade in the North Atlantic

  Mark Gardiner, Natascha Mehler

  9-24

  • pdf

Part I: The context and character of trade

• The North Atlantic trade with Iceland, Shetland, Orkney and the Faroes and the policy of the Hanseatic Diet (1369–1535)

  Rolf Hammel-Kiesow

  27-42

  • pdf

• Bergen’s role in the medieval North Atlantic trade

  Knut Helle, †

  43-51

  • pdf

• Bremen’s trade with the North Atlantic, c. 1400–1700

  Adolf E. Hofmeister

  53-61

  • pdf

• The North Atlantic trade of Hamburg (c. 1400–1650)

  Klaus-J. Lorenzen-Schmidt, †

  63-72

  • pdf

Part II: The commodities of trade

• Hanseatic fish trade in the North Atlantic: evidence of fish remains from Hanse cities in Germany

  Hans Christian Küchelmann

  75-92

  • pdf

• Fish for grain? Archaeoentomological research and emerging patterns of exchange

  Eva Panagiotakopulu

  93-105

  • pdf

• Medieval and early modern ceramics in urban and rural Norway as evidence for trade within the Hanseatic world

  Volker Demuth

  121-132

  • pdf

• Ships and their timber source as indicators of connections between regions

  Aoife Daly

  133-143

  • pdf

• Rumpelstiltsken’s feat: cloth and German trade with Iceland

  Michéle Hayeur Smith

  107-120

  • pdf

Part III: The cultural impact of trade

• Shetland and her German merchants, c. 1450–1710

  Brian Smith

  147-152

  • pdf

• Low German influence on the Scandinavian languages in late medieval times – some comments on loan words, word-forming, syntactic structures and names

  Inge Særheim

  153-161

  • pdf

• Cultural colonialism as a result of commercial activities: the linguistic perspective

  Alessia Bauer

  163-174

  • pdf

• The ships that headed north - an archaeological perspective

  Mike Belasus

  175-186

  • pdf

• A fifteenth-century shipwreck with Scandinavian features from Bremen. Interpreting the Beluga ship in the context of late medieval clinker construction in northwestern Europe

  Daniel Zwick

  187-206

  • pdf

Part IV: Case studies

• Notau – the Hanseatic harbour at Avaldsnes, south-west Norway: written sources, maps and place-names

  Frode Fyllingsnes

  209-216

  • pdf

• Maritime-archaeological investigations of the Hanseatic harbour at Avaldsnes

  Endre Elvestad, Arnfrid Opedal

  217-236

  • pdf

• The Notau harbour and the Kontor in Bergen

  Geir Atle Ersland

  237-244

  • pdf

• Pirates and merchants – Hanse traders and Victual Brothers in Skjernesund and other outports of southernmost Norway in the early fifteenth century

  Frans-Arne H. Stylegar, Pål Nymoen, Gunnar Eikli

  245-257

  • pdf

• Gautavik - a trading site in Iceland re-examined

  Natascha Mehler, Guðmundur Ólafsson, Bart Holterman, Joris Coolen, Ragnar Edvardsson, Torbjörn Brorsson

  259-275

  • pdf

• Aspects of Hanse archaeology in the Faroe Islands

  Símun V. Arge

  277-289

  • pdf

• Comment: Interdisciplinarity? A definite maybe

  Stuart Jenks

  291-302

  • pdf