title: 4 The Black Death in Norway, 1348-49: Sources, Chronology, Spread. Discussion with Kåre Lunden
abstract: The Black Death is a central historical topic in many European countries, a mindstretching demographic catastrophe with profound impact on societal structures and developments. In Norwegian historiography, the scholarly study of the Black Death began in 1862 with P.A. Munch's pioneering protoscientific and quite brief presentation of the epidemic and the subsequent fourteenth-century epidemics. Since then, little attention was devoted to the epidemic itself, its epidemiology, spread and mortalit