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Trade with northern Europe: Baltic ports Soon afterwards, direct trade with western Germany ceased, throughout the period, although grain shipments declined from the although Rhenish wine continued to be imported via the Low mid-seventeenth century. Norwegian trade revived from the later Countries. Contacts with northern Germany continued, but fifteenth century, but timber and tar were now the principal remained generally limited. Beer was probable the most important commodities sent westward. From the later sixteenth century, these import from this region. Scots also began to visit the Skaian herring products were also imported from Sweden, although metals fairs. By the later fourteenth century, merchants from the eastern (particularly iron) were the chief Swedish exports to Scotland. Baltic were trading in Scotland, bringing flax, hemp, sylvan Trade with Denmark developed before that with Sweden, but was products and grain. This trade remained important generally less significant. kms 140I 280 , 560 From 1500 to 1600 .r____F-\~';_~ Mandal Kristiansand ---===------MarstrandO Kunga'ly 1--_--1-G6teborg kms 0 110 280 I I I I 0 80 160 miles o Towns involved in Scottish trade () Towns with important Scottish trading links Hamburg • Towns with most important Scottish trading links o Bremen oLuneburg Off the map: Molde, Trondheim, Spitsbergen Scottish trade with Europe: Baltic ports 1500 to1700 DDi 265

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