In the mid 14th century, German merchants, the Hanseatic League, established Bergen as one of its 4major trading stations, the other 3 being London, Bruges in Belgium, and Novgorod in Russia. They traded dried cod and cod oil for grains from the Baltic countries and fine goods from England and Belgium. The small building to the right is one of the tenement buildings occupied by the merchants. They were all male and all German. Boys were apprenticed at the age of 14 for 5 years. If they succeeded, they moved up the ranks until they could buy their own house, hire a manager to run it and move back to Germany to marry.
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