This is a letter dated 1 April 1657 from Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson of Skálholt to Margrét Kláusdóttir, the Danish wife of foged Tómas Nikulásson. Margrét had remained at the couple’s residence at Bessastaðir in Iceland while her husband was away for the winter in Denmark. The bishop asks Margrét to provide her account of the dispute between her husband and the local Minister, Rev. Sigurður Torfason, who has accused Tómas of inappropriate behaviour. Wives of foreign-born officials living in seventeenth-century Iceland are typically invisible in surviving documents from the period, and this letter is a rare exception.
Original source name : Bréf tilskrifað Margréti Kláusdóttur
English translation : Letter to Margrét Kláusdóttir
Creator : Religious institutions
Document- type 1 : correspondence
Reference number : AM 270 fol. (ff. 96v-98r)
Language(s) : Danish
Geographical coverage : Iceland
Time range : 17thc.
Year(s) : 1657
Theme 1 : family
Link to the item in the catalogue : https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/AM02-0270
English translation : Letter to Margrét Kláusdóttir
Creator : Religious institutions
Document- type 1 : correspondence
Reference number : AM 270 fol. (ff. 96v-98r)
Language(s) : Danish
Geographical coverage : Iceland
Time range : 17thc.
Year(s) : 1657
Theme 1 : family
Link to the item in the catalogue : https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/AM02-0270
Archive name : Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum
Archive name (English) : Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Archive address : Árnagarði við Suðurgötu, 102 Reykjavík
City : Reykjavík
Country : Iceland
Official website and institutional resources : https://arnastofnun.is/
Finding aid(s) : https://handrit.is/
Archive name (English) : Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Archive address : Árnagarði við Suðurgötu, 102 Reykjavík
City : Reykjavík
Country : Iceland
Official website and institutional resources : https://arnastofnun.is/
Finding aid(s) : https://handrit.is/