[gothic-l] Re: Hansa

[WILHELM OTTO]

Dear Dirk and Francisc.
I note that Dirk refers to an earlier discussion with Tore about Hansa. I
only have followed the list for a year or so, and did not know about this.
Sorry.
Most of our knowledge, and especially scientific knowledge, is mainstream.
Social communication would not work otherwise. But as our knowledge is not
static, we have to try to expand it a little now and then. It was what I
tried to do when I started the discussion with Terje. It was not a planned
assault from my part. I just drifted into it.
But the thoughts I have hade for some time is that the victorious writes the
history. The Lübeck Germans were very successful for a long time. And the
Baltic trade is old. Kjell Kumlien points out that the Danes plans for an
emporium were lost 1227 in a battle at "Bornhoeved". Does that mean
Bornholm? From around 1000, when Canute became the absolute power in
Scandinavia until then the Danes had an upper hand.  There are a lot of St
Canute and St. Hans guilds and their churches around.

This is not enough to make a forceful argument, but a tentative question if
anyone may see a pattern I am grasping for. Sometime it is mainstream to
identify a loser's history as well as the victors´!
Wilhelm







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