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1469, December 31

Braunschweig

Braunschweig to Lübeck: ask legal advice in a case where their citizen Frederik Leddinghusen has freighted the ship of Bremen skipper Marten Stene for Iceland, who shipwrecked on Shetland on the journey, but still wants to receive the full promised freighting money.

15140000BER00

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[1514]

Complaints of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen, collected for the negotiations with the Danish king in Oslo, in which the direct trade of Hamburg, Bremen and Holland with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes is presented as the main reason for the Kontor's demise.

15190407LUB00

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1519, April 7

Lübeck

Proceedings of the Diet of the Wendish cities in Lübeck, where among others the Bergen merchants complain about the trade with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes by Bremen and Hamburg, which damages the Kontor in Bergen, whereupon the Hamburg representatives claim that the Icelandic fish is usually brought to England.

15650000BRE00

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[1565-1600]

[Bremen]

Memoirs (‘Seefahrtenbuch’) of Bremen skipper Bruning Rulves, among others about two journeys of ships freighted by Johan Baller to Shetland in 1550 and 1551. The first ship of skipper Johan Reyners wrecked, the second ship was sailed by skipper Hinrich van Minden.

15720416BRE00

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1572, April 16

[Bremen]

Contract between Luder Wedeman, Johan Reineken, Luder Meyer, Hinrick Pundt, Marten Losekanne and Hinrick Osnabrugge, and skipper Bernd Losekanne, in which they form a trading company together to sail to Iceland, but promise to behave as ordinary sailors under Losekanne's command during the journey. Nine other persons are also part of the company but stay at home.

15790209BRE00

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1579, February 9

Bremen

Bremen to king Frederick II: request for permission for Johan Munsterman's widow to use the harbours Kummerwage and Neswage in Iceland, which her deceased husband had used before, but had shipwrecked twice.

15820406KLI01

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1582, April 6

Klingstrup

Governour Johan Bockholt of Iceland to Christoffer Meyer and Bernd Losekanne: thanks them for the salmon they sent him, and requests them to provide the names of the Hamburg merchants who used the harbour Ostforde illegally, so he can forbid them to use that harbour.

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1582, May 14

[Bremen]

Luder Brummer confesses, that he has borrowed 60 daler from Cordt Wachman to trade in Shetland on Jacob Meyer's ship, for which Wachman shall receive 75 daler upon successful return.

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1610, September 28

Bremen

Bremen to duke John Adolf of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp: eight citizens have informed that two of their ships, one returning from Hamburg, the other from Shetland, have wrecked during a storm in the Elbe near Hadeln, whereby the goods on board were salvaged by inhabitants of Dithmarschen and Eiderstedt, and now ask for support in retrieving their goods from them.

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1659, October 6

Bremen

Herman Hausman and Henrich Eiling, councillors in Bremen, confirm that they have heard the testimonies of Herman Brunings, Gerdt and Segebad Detken, Herman Segelcken and Cort Lubbers, crew members on the ship of Herman Detken, about how they had to throw cargo overboard to save their ship in a storm on the return journey from Shetland. Also contains the testimony of Herman Detken himself.