North Sea Networks: Trade and Communication from the Seventh to the Tenth Century
Daniel Melleno
This article explores the commercial links that bound together peoples of North Sea from seventh to tenth century. At heart this trade lay Frisia, whose location as cross roads between and Frankish Empire allowed Frisian, Frankish, Scandinavian merchants carry goods back forth across while at same time facilitating movement ideas cultural exchange. Annalists gathered information these merchants, kings used them pass messages forth, missionaries traveled with them. By tracing physical textual evidence merchants’ travels foreign worlds, demonstrates steady growth economic activity in facilitated contact communication Francia Scandinavia well before first major Viking attacks on empire 830s.
Comitatus-a Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies