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From the Stone Age to the Motor Age. A Sketch of Norwegian Cultural History*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

A. W. Brøgger*
Affiliation:
Oslo University

Extract

Up to a century ago there still stood on the farm Li in Bstre Gausdal, near Lifossen, Gausa, a stone bearing this runic inscription from the days of Olaf the Holy : ‘Eiliv Elg carried fish in Rausjøen’.

In ancient times, as in our own, to carry fish meant to transfer fry in the lakes and waters—to stock as ova and allow to spawn, All fish in our mountain tarns has been carried up by folk in this manner; the Gausdal inscription has commemorized this remarkable and, technically, very difficult chapter in the conquest and cultivation of the country. Eilif is merely one of a thousand and he had this inscription incised not as any memorial, nor in self-glorification, but to proclaim juridically that now the fishing rights of Rausjøen were his.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1940

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References

* Reprinted from Saertrykk av Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift, vol. VII, 1939, by permission of Dr Brøgger, of Oslo University, and the publishers.