Note 427-1 — THE VOYAGES OF JOHN CABOT
Reading edition
Stochfissi. The English word “stockfish” Italianized. Of the English fish trade with Iceland, Biggar gives a full account, Voyages of the Cabots, pp. 53-62, making frequent citations from G. W. Dasent, Icelandic Annals, IV. 427-437. He quotes also a passage from the Libell of English Policy, 1436, beginning:
“Of Yseland to wryte is lytille nede Save of stokfische;” etc.