The Hanseatic merchants lived in their own separate quarter of the town, where Middle Low German was used, enjoying exclusive rights to trade with the northern fishermen who each summer sailed to Bergen.
ハンザ商人たちは町に独自の居住区を作り、中世低地ドイツ語を用い、毎年夏にベルゲンにやってくる北部の漁師との独占的な取引の権利を享受していた。