15320000HAF00

1532, [Summer]

Hafnarfjörður

Skippers and merchants in Hafnarfjörður to [German merchants in Iceland]: complain that the English in Grindewick have taken the fish which they have bought before, and plan to use violence against them to make them pay, and ask for a quick reply.

Created for and published on the HANSdoc website of the German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, by Bart Holterman in the context of the research project Between the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea: interdisciplinary Studies of the Hanse. Licensed CC BY.

Hamburg, Staatsarchiv der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg

111-1 (Senat), Cl. VII Lit. Kc No. 11, vol. 1a (Islandica 1431, 1481-1532)

One bifolio

21,5x29,5cm

Paper

Large water stain, causing small holes on f. 105, not damaging the text.

Modern foliation in pencil, 104-105

Final version

Low German

The resulting attacks on the English in Grindavík took place on June 11, 1532, so the document must have been written some time before that date.

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Diplomatarium Islandicum 16:289

Unßen frunthlichen grudt vnd willigen denst nha vermoghe Ersamen heren shippers vnnd koplude wy foghen Juw to wethen wo de Engelschen In Grindewick vns vnße fisck den wy gekofft vnd betalt hebben nemen vnd vorentholden jegen Jennighe orsake vnd beden vns tho ße willen en betalen mith ware vp landes wyße offte in Engelandt vor dat hundert eynen nabel etc. Szo beger wy iuwen guden Raedt wente vnße meninghe is wy willen ehn halden mith ghewalt offte dar lyff vnd gudt ansetten derhaluen is unße fruntlike bede vnd begehre, gy vnns hulpe don wolden mith folcke desuluesten scholden mede genet gelick alse vnße eighen folck wente vnße meninghe Js, so vele alße wy dar hebben, schollen ße betalen vnnd wy hapen dar schal eyne gude bute aff vnd wy willen de hovethlude syn, wes darna kamen mach, dorth wol vnd weßet hyr stille mede vnd schriuet vns mith Jegenwardigen eyn antwordth wedder umme Wente wy woldent gerne kort vnd gudt maken effte godt wolde gade bevalen Mith hasth geschreuen Datum Hanefoerde anno 1532

Schippers vnd coplude in der Hanenfoerde

Ick Jacobus Gronewolt apenbar Notarius Bremensis bekenne vnd protester duth mith myner eighen hanthschrifft.

Transcript copied and corrected from Diplomatarium Islandicum.