Note 230 — SECTION VII. ZOOLOGICAL NOTES (ANIMALS WILD AND TAME)—NOTES ON FLORA—AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING—FISHERIES AND FISHING—INDUSTRY AND EMIGRATION.
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This is not the case with Norway, situated in the latitude of Iceland and Greenland, as the old rhyme shows:
“Sidst i Torri og först i Gio, Skal Sild og Hval være i Sio.”
“At the last of Torri (first moon after Christmas) and first of Gio (the second moon), The sillock (herring, Clupea harengus) and whale in the sea will show.”
Yet in Coxe’s time (late eighteenth century) the herring had disappeared from the shore, being found only in deep water; and Fortia (Travels in Sweden) tells us, that firing of guns was not allowed for fear of frightening the fickle fish.