6. Overview of harbours in Iceland

Abstract

The following sections will discuss specific harbours in Iceland in detail. To facilitate comparison, it will follow the same structure as Jón Aðils’s overview of Icelandic harbours during the Danish trade monopoly, which follows the coastline of Iceland in clockwise direction, starting with the Vestmannaeyjar in the southwest. The reader looking for a more condensed overview of the trading places in Iceland may wish to begin with the general discussion of Icelandic harbours in Section 5.1 and the timeline of Icelandic harbours supplied with the printed book or downloadable as additional online material at https://doi.org/ 10.1515/9783110655575-018 or with Appendix A, which contains overviews of the licences issued from 1565 onwards. Much of the overview here is based on the licences and the donation register of the confraternity of St Anne in Hamburg, which usually have not been referenced in the footnotes. In these cases, the appropriate references can be found in the appendices.