This paper argues that the theories and methods of recent language contact research should be employed in order to renew the study of the intense language contact situation found in Scandinavia in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, i.e., between Middle Low German, the language of the Hansa merchants, and mainland Scandinavian. Special attention is given to a specific footnote in a publication (Wahl 1927) which claims that a mixed pidgin-like language variety existed in Bergen around 1530, a claim which has been referred to repeatedly in the literature up to the present day. It is shown that there is no foundation for such a claim. Instead, there are good reasons to believe that Low German and mainland Scandinavian were mutually intelligible at the time, and that we should therefore consider the contact situation more as contact between dialects than between languages. If this is correct, the existence of a mixed pidgin-like variety is more or less ruled out.