Identifier: norwayitsfjords00wyll (find matches)
Title: Norway and its fjords
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wyllie, M. A
Subjects: Norway -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Methuen & Co. New York, J. Pott & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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or shipment. Aqueer harvest it looks, that might easily be mistakenfor hayricks at a distance. Near to these stacks, anddrying acres, are huge boilers where the cod-liversstew most odoriferously. The sight of the day is tosee the boats push off to sea and return in the evening.Assembled in their hundreds, the men are as busy asbees with their fishing tackle and gear awaiting thesignal. As soon as this is given they all push out tosea together, for the various fishing grounds. The preparation of salting cod was introduced byEnglish merchants in the seventeenth century, andgradually outstripped the ancient product Torfisk. TheKlipfisk is split, salted, and dried on the ground.Torfisk are gutted and hung in pairs by the tail, anddried on wooden scaffolds called hjell, seen continuallyby the sides of the fjords. According to ancient rules,no fish was to be hung on the hurdles before the 12thof April, or taken down before the 12th of June. Just to give an idea of the quantity of dried fish
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WORLDS CONSUMPTION OF DRIED FISH 229 exported, I quote one years total from the officialpublication:— Klipfisk To Spain 28,450 tons „ Germany 8,720 ,, ,, Great Britain and Ireland . 5,620 ,, „ Italy 1,940 „ „ Portugal and Madeira . . 2,450 „ TORFISK To Sweden 2,320 tons „ Italy and Austria . . , 4,950 „ Holland 3)500 „ Germany 3,280 ,, Great Britain and Ireland . 2,730 ,, Russia and Finland . . . 850 „ Belgium 170 The weather, I think it must have been, that hadentered into the soul, and accounted for the sense ofrest and beauty that enveloped the world this perfectmorning. The air was gentle and warm, the sun wasshining on the beautiful white decks and the ship justgliding through the glass-like water. There were nomore dark fjords with wall-like mountains. A broadstretch of water lay shimmering before us; the moun-tains receded in the distance, their hollows, crannies,and snows covered by a pale blue haze; while the greenundulating land was more like our own roll

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