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1546, December 14

[Hamburg]

[Hamburg] to Otto Stigsson, governor of Iceland: relate how on the Althing last year, it was decided that fishes should be traded per piece, and not by weight, and that the Hamburg merchants in western Iceland have complained about this, because the fishes are so small there.

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. 2 (Islandica 1535-1560)

One bifolio

21x31,5cm

Paper

Large water stains on the right side

Modern foliation in pencil, 52-53

Draft

Low German

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