Despite the perpetual feuding among local petty sovereigns, as well as frequent threats of foreign invasion and piracy, commerce flourished and agriculture throve. Old Livonia became to be known as the granary of Northern Europe, trading corn for cloth from Flanders, herring from Scotland and salt from Poitou.
The terracotta sculptures of the redbrick St John's church, as well as the 13th century Venetian glass beakers unearthed in the Old Town display the welfare of the citizenry of Tartu, the first Estonian Hanse-town
	An ink drawing of a Hanse holk from a manuscript of the Town Council of Tallinn

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