Fishing for herring around 1550. Herring schools were reputed to be so dense in the Baltic that an axe thrust into their midst would remain upright.
© Callum Roberts From the book “The Unnatural History of the Sea” / Source: Magnus, O. (1555) Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus. Description of the Northern Peoples. Volume III. Translated by P. Fisher and H. Higgens, The Hakluyt Society, London, 1996.
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