15950730HAG00

1595, July 30

Haganes (Mývatn)

Sheriff Vigfus Þorsteinsson of Þingeyrarþing to king Christian IV of Denmark and the Council of the Realm: complains how the poor people cannot get to the Danish ship in Eyeforde because it is too far away and they have no horses, and therefore asks permission for Joachim Focke to sail with a ship of 40 lasts to Þorshöfn.

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 24 (Supplement II, no. 9)

One bifolio.

20x32cm

Paper

Bottom right corner of second page ripped off.

Sealed with a signet seal on the folded bottom right corner.

Original

High German

On the back: Hierauff ist der paß Joachim Vocken zu Hamburg auff 3 jahr gegeben subscrib. D. D. Sten Brahen und Arnold Witfeldt.

15950730HAG00RAK0

K2

Copenhagen, Rigsarkivet

Særligt stillede landskaber og unionsriger: D 11 Island og Færøerne, Pakke 24 (Supplement II, no. 9)

One bifolio.

20x33cm

Paper

Translation

Low German

15950730HAG00RAK1

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