Silver penannular brooch from the Kostivere trove, 13th century	From the start of seafaring on the Baltic, Estonia has been en route between East and West. In early 13th century, traders from Gotland and North German towns, members of the newly formed merchants' league — Hanse — strove to take over the lucrative trade with Russia and beyond from the pagan peoples of the Eastern Baltic littoral.
	National Romanticist portrayal of ancient Estonian seafaring. Lennuk, tempera by Nikolai Triik, 1910

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