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Bryggen Hanseatic wharf, Bergen (c. 1070)

On the Norse and Aztecs map as “Bergen — Bryggen”

c. 1070 onward — Norway’s great trading port, through which Greenland’s ivory and northern Norway’s stockfish passed to Europe. From about 1360 German merchants of the Hanseatic League ran a permanent office on the wharf of Bryggen, whose wooden houses are now a World Heritage site.

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Turning point
Chapter
Norse stockfish trade and legacy (chapter 6 of Norse and Aztecs)
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Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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Map showing Bryggen Hanseatic wharf, Bergen (c. 1070), turning point in Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
TURNING POINT · CLIMATE AND INNOVATION: THE NORSE AND THE AZTECS, C. 790–1521

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