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[1487, May 28 - June 15]

[Lübeck]

Report of Riga burgomaster Johann Schöning about the Hanseatic Diet in Lübeck, where among others the representatives of the Kontor in Bergen complained about direct trade in Iceland, which damages the Kontor.

14890000BRE00

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1489 and 1513

Bremen

Bremen town law in the "Kundige Rolle", in which it is among others declared, that (stock)fisch from Bergen, Iceland, and Shetland shall be sold each under its own name and kept in separate containers, on the penalty of one bremer mark.

14890211LUB00

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1489, February 11

Lübeck

Lübeck to Wismar: answer to a request about a holk which is to be freighted to sail to Iceland, that the council has forbidden a ship to sail from Lübeck to Iceland, and that Hamburg will probably not stop such journeys, but advise to forbid this trade until the coming Diet of the Wendish cities.

14890312LUB00

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1489, March 12

Lübeck

Proceedings of the Diet of Wendish cities in Lübeck, in which among others the eldermen of the Bergen merchants complain about the trade with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes, whereupon all gathered cities except Hamburg decide that they shall refrain from this trade if Hamburg does so as well.

14900328KOB00

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1490, March 28

Copenhagen

King John of Denmark and Norway allows merchants from cities in Holland to trade in Bergen, Iceland and Shetland, under the same conditions as the merchants from the German Hansa.

14940525BRE00

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1494, May 25

Bremen

Proceedings of the Hanseatic Diet in Bremen, in which among others the merchants in Bergen complain about merchants sailing to Shetland, who mix Shetland fish with fish from Bergen, upon which it is decided that Shetland shall not be visited anymore, upon penalty of being excluded from the Hanse.

14940605BRE00

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1494, June 5

Bremen

Representatives of the Hanseatic cities gathered in Bremen, confirm that they have decided that nobody is allowed to sail to Orkney, Shetland, and the Faroes, on the penalty of being excluded from the Hanse, and that it is forbidden to sell Shetland fish as rotscher.

14980405BER00

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1498, April 5

[Bergen]

Eldermen of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen to the representatives of the Hanseatic cities gathered in Lübeck: complaint about the commercial activity of two Bremen ships in Shetland in 1494, and how after the governor of Bergen had confiscated commodities of one of them, he had to release these after letters sent by the Duke of Holstein and the Count of Oldenburg.

14980528BRE00

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1498, May 28

Bremen

Proceeding of the Hanseatic Diet in Bremen, in which among others the Kontor in Bergen complains about merchants sailing to Shetland and the Faroes and mixing fish from various origins, upon which the prohibition is repeated to sail to Shetland and other islands, except for Iceland, on the penalty of exclusion from the Hanse.

15020300LUB00

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1502, [between February 6 and March 26]

[Lübeck?]

[Lübeck merchants with Bergen?] to the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen: report among others about the situation in various lands, complaints of Kampen, Deventer and Zwolle about the Kontor, and that they have not received news from Bremen, nor about the Iceland merchants Kinkel and Wilde.