In the early fourteenth century, there was a relatively dense pattern of towns in the southern part of Scandinavia, which were concentrated in the coastal areas and linked by the traditional sailing-routes. What really happened to Scandinavian towns in the second half of the fourteenth century is obscured by the shortage of contemporaneous evidence, particularly sources on which quantitative valuations may be based. As for written evidence, there is a general decrease in Scandinavian narrative sources; historical sagas were no longer produced and ecclesiastical annal writing was waning. Scandinavian towns were small by contemporary European standards. None of them exceeded 10,000 inhabitants. The chapter also discusses the import and export of goods in medieval Scandinavia that took place mainly through merchants, guests and immigrants, the laws to regulate medieval town life, and town administration. Crafts and local trade in Scandinavian towns were similar to those in other towns of northern and western Europe.