15900827FUL00
1590, August 27
Fyluvogur
Priest Jon Þorvardsson from Altefjord in Ostforde declares that merchants from Bremen have always traded honestly in Fuluwick for 80 years, and wishes that they will not be expelled by Hamburg merchants, whose goods are more expensive.
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)
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.
Translation
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.
The booklet also contains five other Low German translation of testimonies of Icelanders about the Bremen merchants in Ostforde: 15900526FUL00, 15900000OST00, 15900820FUL00, 15900812FUL00, 15900813FUL00.