Carlsberg Foundation 18: Unanswered questions and the limits of historical knowledge. Did some of the Danish king’s liegemen in Northern Estonia reside in Denmark?
Mihkel Mäesalu & Stefan Pajung There are limits to historical knowledge, especially when studying periods so distant as the 13th or 14th century. The sources of information – chronicles, charters, documents etc. – dating from this period are rather scarce for both Denmark as well as Estonia. It is therefore often the case that we…