Bart Holterman presentated the project and his own research on August 5 in Haus der Wissenschaft<\/em> in Bremen. Matthias Holthaus was there as well and wrote the following article about it in the Weser Kurier <\/em>of August 21, which gives a nice overview of the situation German merchants had to deal with when trading in the North Atlantic in the late Middle Ages (in German).<\/p>\n