Norfish 12 Norway West Coast Herring Fishery 1368–1790

Norway has seen herring as an essential part of the its cultural heritage and is recorded as far back as the 11th century in Snorri Sturluson’s Kings’. The sea teemed with herring in this century according to Sturluson and played an important role in the growth of Norway. (The Herring Academy 2021)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Poul Holm (438360), John Nicholls (8446332)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
Subjects:
History
History and Archaeology not elsewhere classified
Maritime Archaeology
Herring
Catch
Norwegian Sea
North Sea
Norway West Coast
1520-1850
Norway
Bergen
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14258414.v3
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Summary:Norway has seen herring as an essential part of the its cultural heritage and is recorded as far back as the 11th century in Snorri Sturluson’s Kings’. The sea teemed with herring in this century according to Sturluson and played an important role in the growth of Norway. (The Herring Academy 2021) This dataset combines sources that provide export data for the Norwegian port of Bergen. These data are available in two tranches and typically provide values in barrels of salted herring that were transported from Bergen.

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