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Region/Country: Region/Land: Hordaland, Norway

Biggest city on the western coast of Norway. A Hanseatic Kontor was established here in the 1360s, which was dominated by merchants from Lübeck, and from the 16th century onwards, Bremen. The privileges of the Kontor granted Bergen staple rights for the Northern (stockfish) trade, but forbade German merchants to trade with Northern Norway and the Norwegian skattlande directly.

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1600, November 13

Hamburg

Hamburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: request for a license for the harbour Hellesand or Olefswick in Iceland, which are currently not in use, on behalf of Berndt Salfeld the Younger, including permission to sail to Reff to reclaim the outstanding debts of his father there, who sailed there for more than fifty years, but died three years ago. He had already applied for a license for Reff in January the same year, but it was given to Gerd Melsow from Bergen.

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1601

Overview of the harbours in use in Iceland and in which year their licenses expire, 1601-1603.

16010213HAM00

1601, February 13

Hamburg

Bernd and Henning Salfeld to Hamburg: renewed request for a license for the harbours Hellesand or Olefswick in Iceland, which are currently not in use, including permission to sail to Reff to reclaim their father's outstanding debts, who sailed there for over fifty years and died recently, but now Reff is in use by Gerdt Melsow from Bergen. A previous request was left unanswered.

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1603, April 8

[Hamburg]

Merchants who trade with Ruteforde to Hamburg: relate how they lost two ships in the last years, which forced them to leave their goods on Iceland for four years, and couldn't retrieve them because of the bad weather. Then the governor ordered them to sail back to Denmark, but a storm drove them to Hamburg, where they are not allowed to enter the harbour. Therefore, it is asked to land their goods to prevent even further damage.

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1685

Bremen

Excerpt from Peter Koster’s chronicle of Bremen, in which is described how the merchants trading with Bergen expected five ships to return in November and December 1685, of which only one returned to Bremen, with much of its cargo having become wet, whereas two other ships wrecked in a heavy storm and the two remaining were wrecked in Shetland, from which the Bergen merchants suffered heavy losses amounting to 30 thousand Reichsthaler.

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