Hanseatic and North Sea Food Trade

Historical period

The Scania Market on the Øresund, where Hanseatic merchants bought salted herring in enormous quantity; the Sound Dues levied on every ship passing Helsingør from 1429 to 1857, which funded the Crown and made the strait a chokepoint of the Baltic grain trade; salt from Lüneburg and the Bay of Biscay; and the import of wine, spices, hops and later grain through German and Dutch intermediaries.