Bryggen
Row of gabled timber warehouses from the Hanseatic stockfish trade, now shops, cafes and museums.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Bryggen, the old wooden wharf of Bergen, starts with a medieval note carved in runes by a woman called Gyda, one of hundreds dug from the ashes after the fire of nineteen fifty-five. From there it turns to the German merchants of the Hanseatic League who ran the stockfish trade from these warehouses for almost four centuries, and to the rough welcome waiting for their apprentices. Best heard in the narrow timber passages between the gabled houses.
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