Hamburg Ship Law

Merchants, Ports and Power: Discover how the Hanseatic League built a vast commercial network across medieval northern Europe without kings, borders or an empire.

Reconstruction of Aarhus (Denmark) during the Viking Age

Viking Trading Towns: Discover how Kaupang, Birka and Hedeby connected Viking Scandinavia with distant markets through ships, workshops, silver, merchants and royal power.

A 19th-century painting by Peter Raadsig shows Iceland's first settler, Ingólfr Arnarson, commanding enslaved individuals to erect a pillar.

The Viking Slave Trade linked raids, markets and households from Dublin to the Volga, turning captives into labour, ransom and commercial wealth.

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