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1591

Iceland

Testimonies of Icelanders Halgrimur Niklasson, who claims that his father was bailiff in Ostfordsyssel and has never heard of a harbour called Ostforde, and Torsten Tusteson, who claims that when he was in the region, he heard that Bremen merchants were trading in Dupwage in Bernforde.

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1591, May 7

Copenhagen

King Christian IV of Denmark to Bremen: states that Daniel Elers from Hamburg and governour Lorentz Kruse on Iceland have come to him and complained about the presence of Marten Losekanne from Bremen in Elers's harbour in Iceland, and asks Losekanne therefore to refrain from further use of the harbour.

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1591, July-August

Berufjörður

Icelandic priests Einar Sigurdsson, Einar Magnusson, Jon Þorvardsson, Þorvardur Magnusson, Jon Magnusson, Þorkel Arnason and Arne Olafsson testify that the harbour that is used by Marten Losekanne from Bremen and Daniel Elers from Hamburg is called Berufjörður.

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1591, August 21

Vík (Fáskrúðsfjörður)

Jon Jonson, elderman in Foschesvorde, declares that the Bremen merchants have always behaved well and peacefully in Fulewick in Iceland, and helped the local people, and therefore would like them to stay.

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1591, August 24

Fýluvogur

Priest Einar Magnusson repeatedly declares that Bremen merchants Marten Losekanne and Johan Oldenbuttel have behaved themselves very well in Fulewick in Iceland, have sold better merchandise than Hamburg merchants, and help the local people by bringing them fishing boats and timber for maintenance of the churches.

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1591, August 25

Geithellar

Bailiffs Elendur Magnusson, Bryniolfur Jonson and Gudmundur Eyolfson declare that Bremen merchants in the harbour Ostforde in Iceland sell better commodities than Hamburg merchants and help the local people.

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1591, August 26

Vík (Fáskrúðsfjörður)

Jon Einarsson, elderman in Foschesvorde, confesses that during his entire life, Bremen merchants have sailed to Fulewick and behaved themselves well, and that it would be to the disadvantage of the poor people if they would not come anymore.

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1591, September 7

Bremen

Dietmar Kenckel to Bremen: request to use the harbour Stappe in Iceland, for which a license was previously held by his father Dietmar Kenckel, and later by Hamburg merchants, whose license has now ended.

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1591, after September 29

Cordt Walleman to king Christian IV of Denmark: said that he went to Copenhagen to bring the request of Dietmar Kenckel, the factor of Duke Henry Julius of Brunswick-Lüneburg, to use the harbour Stappe, to the Council of the Realm. As it appeared that this harbour was already in use by someone else, Walleman requests a license for Durholmer in the east, which was never used by anyone, on Kenckels behalf.

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1591, November 14

Bremen

Bremen's instruction for the secretary Daniel Bisterfeldt, who is sent to discuss the matter about the rightful use of the harbour Ostforde/Bernforde, in which it is stated that it can be proven that Marten Losekanne and his predecessors have rightfully used the harbour under the name Ostforde for decades, and that it is therefore not true that they have changed a license for Wapenforde to the invented name Ostforde, as Hamburg merchant Daniel Elers claims.