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1550, June 30

Þingvellir

The Althing decides, concerning the complaints of merchants from Hamburg and Lübeck about governor Lorentz Mule, that Mule shall return the fish that he has confiscated, and forbids the foreign merchants in Iceland to stay in winter.

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1586, February 13

Hamburg

List of harbours in Iceland, for which Hamburg merchants have applied for a license.

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1590, August 12

Fýluvogur

Priest Arni Magnusson declares that merchant Marten Losekanne and skipper Johan Oldenbuttel and their predecessors have traded in Fulewick for 80 years, always honestly, and have brought better goods than the merchants from Hamburg.

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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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1592, January 12

Hamburg

Laurens Schroder to Hamburg: request for a license for the harbour Ruteforde, west of Schagestrand, in Iceland, of which bishop Gudbrand Turlaksson and lawman Jon Jonson have told him it is free.

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1594

Hamburg

Hans Elers to royal secretary Augustinus Erich: writes that lawman Jon Jonsson has asked him and Jurgen van Winsen to sail to the harbour Ruteforde in Iceland, and requests a license to do so. A license has been given in 1591 to Laurens Schroder and Jochim Holste, but they are not using it.

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1599, Autumn

Hamburg

Johan Holtgreve to the Danish privy councillor Christoffer Valckendorf: request for a license for the harbour Altenforde in Iceland, because lawman Jon Jonsson has complained that the merchants in nearby Iseforde do not provide the local population with enough commodities.

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1599, Autumn

Hamburg

[Johan Holtgreve to the merchants in Iseforde in Iceland]: writes how lawman Jon Jonsson has complained how the merchants in Iseforde do not provide the local population with enough commodities, because they only sail there with one ship, and asks them to allow him in Alteforde.

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1599, August 29

Þingeyrarklaustur

Lawman Jon Jonsson to chancellor Heinrich Ramel of the Danish German chancery: writes that the poor people in Iseforde in Iceland have complained that the merchants there do not bring enough commodities, because they sail there with one ship where before there were two. Therefore, he requests a license for nearby Alteforde on behalf of Johan Holtgreve, who has traded in Iceland for 18 years and is an honest merchant.

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1599, December 18

Hamburg

Hamburg to the Danish privy councillor Christoffer Valckendorf: complaint on behalf of the Hamburg merchants in Iseforde in Iceland, who were accused by lawman Jon Jonsson of not having brought enough commodities for the local population, but who have sailed there for 12 years and have acquired a license in 1598 for three years. Therefore, it is asked to reject the request of Johan Holtgreve to sail there as well.