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1548, April 25

Hafnarfjörður

Peter Einerson confesses that the merchants in Hafnarfjörður have been at Althing in 1545, and have not objected when the Icelanders decided about the use of weights in commerce, and that he has told them so this year.

Created for and published on the HANSdoc website of the German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, by Bart Holterman in the context of the research project Between the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea: interdisciplinary Studies of the Hanse. Licensed CC BY.

Hamburg, Staatsarchiv der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg

111-1 (Senat), Cl. VII Lit. Kc No. 11, vol. 2 (Islandica 1535-1560)

One leaflet

21,5x17cm

Paper

Modern foliation in pencil, 71

Three seals with house marks pressed on folded parts of the paper

Low German

Facsimile not (yet) available

Jónsson, skra um skjöl, pp. 206-207

Dadt bykenne ick Peter Einerson mitt dysser miner egen handskript, dadt ick nu didt jar inn der Hanefiorde gewest bin, vor denn erlikenn skipers unde kauplaudenn, unde hebbe enn handtastinge gedann, dadt ick by der worheit blifen will, unde segenn, dadt sey des jars upp Alding gevest sinn, do me skreif, 1545, unde hebben dor neinenn dom gegangen, eder gesetenn, unde ock nick samthyckedt eder fullbordedt, denn domm, denn de Islender dar geingenn,1 unde domedenn, vann der wickte unde gilldinge halfenn etc., sunder sey sedenn do de dom upsegt wort, dadt sey wollden enne nu unde numer meir holden, etc., unde dey dadt segt, dadt ick anders gesegt hebbe, eder geskrefenn, vor westenn eder ander vegne, dey digtet unde segt sinenn willenn, dar ane, unde nickt de worheit, unde by dyssenn minenn vorenn wordenn, willenn se ock blifenn, her Einer Olafsson presbiter, Dade Bonde Gudmundersonn, unde hebben hir an unde ofer gewesenn, dadt ich didt gesegt hebbe, thor thychenisse der worheit sette wy unse signet hir under. Geskrefenn inn de Hanefiorde des drudden sunofendes na paskenn, datum 1548.

Transcript copied from Jónsson.