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Grundarfjörður
Grindefiord; Grindefiorden; Grindefiordt; Grindefirod; Grindeforde; Grindefordt; Grindefort; Grindeförde; Grindforde; Grindtvorde; gronderforde; Grundarfjörður; Grundefiorde; Grundefiorden; Grundefiordt; Grundeforde; Grundeforden; Grundefordt; Grundefort; Grundeforth; Grunderfiordi; Grundevorde; Grundfiern; Grundtfiordt; Grundtfordt; Grunfiordt; Gryndeforde
Region/Country: Region/Land: Snæfellsnes, Iceland
Trading place in use by Danish and German merchants, who called it Grindeforde or Grundeforde. The modern town is located to the west of the old trading site Grundarkampur, which was used until the 19th century.
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1597, before March 11
Oldenburg
[Oldenburg merchants with Iceland] to count John of Oldenburg: although Oldenburg merchants have used the harbours Neswage, Kummerwage, and Grundeforde with royal permission for years, Bremen merchants have started in the previous year 1596 to trade in the harbour Stickingsholm, which is just another name for Neswage and therefore illegal.
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1597, September 3
Oldenburg
Harmen Kloppenburg reports that he was lucky to have arrived eight days before the Bremen merchants in Iceland, who nowadays buy all the fish in Grundeforde which used to be sold in Kummerwage. Moreover, sheriff Carsten Bake only accepted the tolls for Kummerwage and not for Neswage, which he had given to Bremen.
1599, November 10
Oldenburg
Count John VII of Oldenburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: request for a prolongation of the license for the harbours Kummerwage and Neswage in Iceland for a longer period than three years, as well as an extension of the license to the harbours Grundeforde and Landoh.
1599, December 22
Copenhagen
King Christian IV of Denmark to count John VII of Oldenburg: permits the use of the harbours Kummerwage and Neswage in Iceland for another three years, but Grundeforde and Landoh are already in use by someone else.
1600, September 22
Oldenburg
Count John VII of Oldenburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: request for a permission to use the harbour Stickingsholm in Iceland, now the Bremen license has expired, and request to send the licenses in threefold.
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1601
Overview of the harbours in use in Iceland and in which year their licenses expire, 1601-1603.
1610, December 17
Oldenburg
Schweder Timmerman to count Anton Günther of Oldenburg: as the Danish merchants licensed with the Icelandic trade do not use the harbour Flatto at the moment, Timmerman requests to use that harbour for the time being, and afterwards one of the harbours Bodenstede, Stappe, or Reff.
After 1645
Oldenburg
Citizens of Oldenburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: request for permission to trade with Iceland again, after the Danish king has given them toll exemptions in the Sound and in Norway, like the merchants of Holland, in 1645.
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