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The
Arts In Berwick -- Ballads and Poems
Scots Berwick
Medieval Berwick was an international port with Flemish and German merchants
having their own trading halls. Recent excavations have turned up pottery
from all over Europe, and is likely these merchants also imported their
own distinctive literary culture.
Perhaps the work of Hadewijh (fl.1230-40), the leading Flemish troubadour
of her day, would have been known here. Also a version of Tristan and
Isolda by the mysterious Borders poet Thomas the Rhymer (c.1220-97), was
perhaps based on a German original imported by a Berwick merchant.
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