Note 17 — Section 195. THE HANSE. II.
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[1] and most virgin field = and hitherto quite unused field.
[2] beziehen, insep. comp. irr. v. tr.
[3] bestowing in return = Liter. which it (sie, to agree with die Hansa) for (gegen) ... exchanged. The verb stands, of course, after ‘princes’, and the clause ‘for — barter’ is best placed after it.
[4] Repeat the preposition gegen here.
[5] Place ‘in — contact’ after ‘Sweden’.
[6] for — clerks, den Beamten und Unterbeamten, which place after ‘only’. Render ‘as a’ by zu, contracted with the dat. of the def. art.
[7] = but was also used as a (als) warehouse.
[8] bestanden aus.
[9] = but especially. The prep. aus must be repeated here.
[10] Artikel, m.; in — demand, welcher ... in großer Nachfrage stand.
[11] Supply the adv. noch here.
[12] Von Jahr zu Jahr.
[13] froh; to be on good terms, auf freundschaftlichem Fuß stehen; with — body, mit dem mächtigen Städtebunde, which place after ‘glad’.
[14] = appeared before (vor).
[15] erbitten; favours, Gunstbezeugungen; in return, dafür.
[16] zu; of — monopoly, der Gewaltherrschaft und des Monopols; ‘to expand’, here umgestalten.
[17] auf.
[18] but ... was, sondern es befand sich auch; of = in.