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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.

15940800VOP00

1594, late August

Vopnafjörður

Priests Otto Jonsson and Jon Ottsson ask permission for Heinrich Moller to come with a ship with commodities to Torshafen in Langenes, as Jacob Winock had promised but he never came.

15940826VOP00

1594, August 26

Vopnafjörður

Ogmunder Jonsson asks permission for Heinrich Möller to sail with a ship with commodities to Thorshöfn in Langenes.

15940901HOF00

1594, September 1

Hof (Vopnafjörður)

Priest Oddur Torkilsson to king Christian IV of Denmark: complains how the poor people of Vopnafjörður are dependent on the German traders, and therefore asks permission for a ship to sail to Þorshöfn in Langanes.