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15150818KOB00

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1515, August 18

Copenhagen

King Christian II of Denmark proclaims that it is forbidden for German merchants to trade in Iceland, unless the fish is directly brought to England, on the penalty of loosing protection and the use of privileges in Norway.

15210327FLE00

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1521, March 27

Flensburg

Tyle Persson to King Christian II of Denmark: sends him part of the English cloth that was still in Hamburg, and regrets that he cannot come to see him, but has heard that lawmen Vigfús Erlendsson has been made governor of Iceland with the support of men from Hamburg, and requests to write to Hamburg that they should not mingle in Icelandic politics and not hinder him in his own office as governor of Iceland and the Faroes.

15230222KOB00

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1523, February 22

Copenhagen

King Christian II of Denmark to Iceland: proclaims that no foreigners - German or English - are allowed to trade in Iceland before they have paid an annual toll of 20 guilders.

15240623LUB00

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1524, June 23 - August 23

[Lübeck, Copenhagen]

Diary of Gert Krudup and Hans Ebbrecht, eldermen of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen, as well as their secretary Erasmus Boddecker, of their journey from Lübeck to Copenhagen, where they visited the Diet during which King Frederick I was crowned, and where the privileges in Bergen were negotiated.

15240800KOB00

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[1524, August]

[Copenhagen]

King Frederick I of Denmark confirms the Hanseatic privileges in Bergen, and allows the Icelandic trade for German merchants, but not the direct trade with Shetland and the Faroes.

15310519TRO00

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1531, May 19

Trondheim

Archbishop Olaf of Trondheim to Eske Bille, commander of Bergenhus: announces that he can not come to the meeting with the king in Copenhagen because of a large fire in Trondheim, and sends his points for the agenda, including complaints about Hamburg merchants in Iceland and the Faroes.

15330000HAM00

1533-1628

[Hamburg]

First donation register of the confraternity of St Anne of the Hamburg merchants with Iceland, which contains donations, mostly in fish or money, from the people on board of ships returning each year from Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes to Hamburg from 1533-1628. Also contains notes about the annual accounting of the eldermen of the confraternity.

15350118KOB00

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1535, January 28

Copenhagen

Count Christopher of Oldenburg to Eske Bilde, commander of Bergen: asks him to write to the Faroes that they should pay a tax of two guilders for each man, which has to be given to Joachim Wullenwever, councillor in Hamburg, or his representative.

15350129KOB00

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1535, January 29

Copenhagen

Count Christopher of Oldenburg to Hamburg: writes that the Danish king has given Iceland to Marx Meyer, and that the Hamburg merchants should therefore oblige him or his brother Bernd, whom he has sent as governour, and no one else.

15470104KOL00

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1547, January 4

Kolding

King Christian III of Denmark leases Iceland to Copenhagen for ten years for an annual payment of 1000 Lübische mark, on the condition that they appoint their own governour and supply the island with commodities.