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1591, July-August

Berufjörður

Icelandic priests Einar Sigurdsson, Einar Magnusson, Jon Þorvardsson, Þorvardur Magnusson, Jon Magnusson, Þorkel Arnason and Arne Olafsson testify that the harbour that is used by Marten Losekanne from Bremen and Daniel Elers from Hamburg is called Berufjörður.

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.

Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet

Særligt stillede landskaber og unionsriger: D 11 Island og Færøerne, Pakke 26 (Supplement II, no. 16)

One bifolio.

20x32,5cm

Paper

Each of the seven testimonies is written in a different hand.

Sealed with six signet seals in red wax.

Icelandic

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