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15330000HAM00

1533-1628

[Hamburg]

First donation register of the confraternity of St Anne of the Hamburg merchants with Iceland, which contains donations, mostly in fish or money, from the people on board of ships returning each year from Iceland, Shetland and the Faroes to Hamburg from 1533-1628. Also contains notes about the annual accounting of the eldermen of the confraternity.

15660228KOB01

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1566, February 28

Copenhagen

Herman von Oldenseel (Lübeck) license for Vopnafjörður, which was formerly used by a Bremen man. King Frederick II of Denmark permits Herman von Oldenseel from Lübeck to trade with the harbour Wopnefiorde in Iceland, which was used by a man from Bremen before, until further notice.

15670821SKR00

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1567, August 21

Skriðuklaustur

Eirikur Arnason confesses that he has set the trade (kaupsetning) in Ostforde with Bernd Losekanne, skipper and merchant, and Reineken Strotman, merchant, and their folk, who had a license from Peter Withfeld, and that the merchants in the Wapenforde have behaved themselves badly.

15670926BRE00

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1567, September 26

Bremen

Instruction for Tyleman Zerneman, who is sent by the Bremen city council to the king of Denmark to ask for reduction of the tolls to be paid for harbours in Iceland because of the bad fish catches of the last year, and licenses for the harbours Bodenstede, Stappe, Kummerwage, and Ostforde, and for reduction of the Sound toll on behalf of the city's Bergen merchants.

15761223STA00

1576, December 23

Stade

Stade merchants with Iceland to Joachim Hinck, dean of the Bremen cathedral chapter: ask for his help in acquiring licenses to use the harbours Patersforde, Tolkesforde, Bidalsforde, Durforde, and Iseforde in Iceland, and other harbours except for Haneforde, Wapenforde, Stappe and Reff, which are already licensed to others.

15800215BRE00

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1580, February 15

[Bremen]

Bernd Losekanne and Christoffer Meyer to Bremen: in answer to the statement of Matthias Eggers from Hamburg that he and his predecessors have used the harbour Ostforde in Iceland for many years, they claim that he is lying, and that they have the full right to use the harbour, as they have done for about eighty years before.

15800218BRE00

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1580, February 18

Bremen

Bremen to Hamburg: in response to the defense of Matthias Eggers concerning his illegal use of the harbour Ostforde in Iceland, the Bremen merchants (Bernd Losekanne and Christoffer Meyer) have and have had a license for Ostforde for many years, and Eggers has a license for another harbour, called Wapenforde, and therefore has no right to use the Ostforde.

15840000KOB00

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1584

Copenhagen

Overview of the harbours in Iceland in use in the years 1584-1592.

15860000XXX01

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1586

List of harbours in Iceland for which licenses have been issued to merchants from Stade, Bremen, Wilster and Oldenburg, in the years 1576-1585.

15860213HAM00

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1586, February 13

Hamburg

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