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15900812FUL00
1590, August 12
Fyluvogur
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.
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.
K1
Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet
Særligt stillede landskaber og unionsriger: D 11 Island og Færøerne, Pakke 26 (Supplement II, no. 16)
One folio.
20x33,5cm
Paper
Original.
Icelandic
Note on the back: Arne Magnusson sin eigen witnisburdur.
Also contains a small statement of Jon Jonsson, who confirms Arni Magnusson's statement.
K2
Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet
Særligt stillede landskaber og unionsriger: D 11 Island og Færøerne, Pakke 26 (Supplement II, no. 18a)
Booklet of five bifolios.
21x32cm
Paper
One folio has been cut out.
Bound together with thread.
Low German
Title on the back: unterschiedliche kundschafft, der Ißlenderschen Oistfortsußell, wegen der Bremer kauffleute, ihres alda aufrichtigenn furhaltens, handelß und wandels, auf Teutsch auß dem Ißlandeschenn gesetzett.
Contains five other Low German translations of Icelandic testimonies about the Bremen merchants in Ostforde: 15900526FUL00, 15900000OST00, 15900820FUL00, 15900827FUL00, 15900813FUL00.