tiie women, till they are entirely dry i
this often requires a fortnight’s time;
and fometimes more* The fiQi prepared
in this manner are called flat-
fifkiiri or flat fiili*
In fome parts they do hot dry the
flill on ilones or on the ihore ; but
after they have ripped them up, place
them in rows on ilones that are
laid crois-wife in a houfe built for that
purpofe ; thefe huts are called hiallur
in Iceland, and fomewhat reieniblethe
ilieds in which ihiiths ilioe horfes»
Thefe fiih are called hengi-fjlliure or
hung fiih.
The fiih they principally catch is
cod, o f which they have feveral different
forts, under the names o f tbyr/F
lingur, upfe, ija, langa, keila, Sec,
Befides theie they have foies, floum
ders, herrings, falmon; falmon-trout,
trouts, and feveral others. O f the
trouts it has been obferved, that when
they come up the rivers and brooks,
and approach the hot fprings, they
aie fond o f Haying in the lukewarm
water, where they grow ib fat as to be
fcarcely eatable.
It.
it is unneceiTary to fay, that the
feas, as well as the rivers and lakes,
abound with fiili i I will therefore
only mention the whale, o f which
there are feveral forts, divided by the
natives into two claifes; thofe with
and thofe without teeth*
The firil are again divided into
Skidis-jUkiir, fmooth-beliled, and Rcy-
dar-fijkur, or wrlnlde-bellied. Among
the Skidis-flJJaity who have whalebone
inilead o f teeth, the fletthakr,
whofe back is flat, is the largefl: ; and
fome have been caught one hundred
Swedifli ells (of twenty-three and a
quarter Englifli Inches) in length.
The hmifubakr has a hump on his back,
and is next in fize, being from feventy
to eighty ells long. O f all the known
whales that belong to the clafs of the
Reydar-fijlur, the fleipereidur is thought
to be the largefl, as there are fome
one hundred and twenty ells in
length. Then follow the hrcfn rcy-
dur and the andarnefia ; they are all
confidered as very dainty food ; and
the Icelanders fay, the fleih has the
tafte of beef.
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