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15650000XXX00

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1565

List of harbours in Iceland to be used by Hamburg merchants for a loan of 100.000 daler, and on the condition that they will not trade with forbidden goods such as train oil and sulfur.

15670000XXX00

1567

Small register of debts in Iceland by Hamburg shipowners and Johan Falchener from Amsterdam.

15690402KOB00

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1569, April 2

Copenhagen

King Frederick II of Denmark declares that he has permitted Bernd Losekanne from Bremen to sail to Ostforde or Pappie in Iceland, to which Heinrich Mumme has sailed before, under the condition that Mumme can still use the harbour in 1570.

15770319HAM00

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1577, March 19

Hamburg

Jurgen Timme to Bremen: complaint against the skipper Rolof Gerdes, who was supposed to sail from Hamburg to Iceland with commodities from Holstein and Denmark. Gerdes later changed his mind, although Timme had already bought many commodities, and now asks for compensation.

15850307OLD00

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1585-1586

[Oldenburg]

Account book of the Oldenburg merchants trading with Iceland, containing a list of collected capital from the shipowners and merchants, directions and expenses for brewing beer, and hire amounts for the crew. Four loose leaves contain older accounts, among others for the purchase and equipment of a ship.

15901014BRE01

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1590, October 14

Bremen

Instruction for Bremen secretary Daniel Bisterfeldt, who is sent to the Danish court because Marten Losekanne was mistakingly given a license for the harbour Wapenforde in Iceland, which is already in use by Daniel Elers from Hamburg, instead of Ostforde, regardless of a previous request to correct this error. Bisterfeldt will ask to change the license, and request a new license for Klevesohe in Lon, which has not been used before, on behalf of Friedrich Tilebare.

15950730HAG00

1595, July 30

Haganes (Mývatn)

Sheriff Vigfus Þorsteinsson of Þingeyrarþing to king Christian IV of Denmark and the Council of the Realm: complains how the poor people cannot get to the Danish ship in Eyeforde because it is too far away and they have no horses, and therefore asks permission for Joachim Focke to sail with a ship of 40 lasts to Þorshöfn.

15970725HEL00

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1597, July 25

Helgafell

Olafur Einarson, Eriker Tostenson, and Dadde Jonson confess that they have heard Osser Ingemundarson complain about bad flour he bought in Kumbaravogur from Harmen Kloppenburg from Oldenburg, and ask governour Johan Bockholt to prevent such flour from being sold.

16440200HAM00

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1644, February - 1645, July

Hamburg

Register of ships, skippers, freighters and cargoes sailing between Hamburg and Shetland that paid the admiralty toll in the harbour of Hamburg.