ABSTRACT
I wrote above how the governors of Iceland (in other words, the land of ice), by doing justice at the command of the Norwegian king, would avert the wrangles that arose by the harbours of that country or flared up among the traders of Germany. They would impose fair levies on those who sailed there, so that the merchants themselves would not be robbed of their lawful profit, nor the natives of their benefit, nor the treasury of its due tribute, nor any men of a pleasant and peaceful association in trading.1
