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1591, End of the Year

Anonymous note, which states that there has never been a ship in the harbour Durholmer in Iceland because it is so far away from everything.

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.

Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet

Særligt stillede landskaber og unionsriger: D 11 Island og Færøerne, Pakke 25 (Supplement II, no. 15)

One folio.

20x25cm

Paper

Low German

Alternative number 2.

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Der wey dat dar ydtsondes nene haven los sent volde yck frontlyck gebdden [!] hebben van vegen meynes heren dar ys eyn klen gat dat hedt Durholmor unde licht under Meydal unde heft nocht neyn scheyp gelegen vente dat heft neman eventurren dreven unde modt daryn meyt grot gefar unde ys so veyt van anderen scheppen dat de armen leyde moten 8 dage up den vege ten er dat se kenen vorkopen unde leycht nemant tho schaden seynder den armen leyden tho den besten so ferne aver alse dat anders ys segge yck van vegen meynes herren schal al dat godt vorberet seyn.

Transcript by Bart Holterman, 2017.