OCTHER'S VOYAGE BEYOND NORWAY ad. 



c. 890. 



himselfe was one of the sixe, which in the space of 3. dayes 



killed threescore. He was a man of exceeding wealth in 



such riches, wherein the wealth of that countrey doth 



consist. At the same time that he came to the king, he 



had of his owne breed 600. tame Deere, of that kinde Sixe hundreth 



which they call Rane Deere : of the which number 6. were ^^^^ Deere, 



stall Rane Deere, a beast of great value, and marveilously 



esteemed among the Fynnes, for that with them they 



catch the wilde Rane Deere. He was among the chiefe 



men of his countrey one : and yet he had but 20. kine, 



and 20. swine, and that little which he tilled, he tilled it 



all with horses. Their principall wealth consisteth in the 



tribute which the Fynnes pay them, which is all in skinnes T'he Fynnes 



of wilde beasts, feathers of birds, whale bones, and cables, ^^"^'^^^^' 



and tacklings for shippes made of Whales or Scales 



skinnes. Every man payeth according to his abilitie. '^ote. 



The richest pay ordinarily 15. cases of Marterns, 5. Rane 



Deere skinnes, and one Beare, ten bushels of feathers, a ^^^/^^ ^z- 



coat of a Beares skinne, two cables threescore elles long a whales and 



piece, the one made of Whales skin, the other of Scales. Se ales skins. 



He sayd, that the countrey of Norway was very long A description 



and small. So much of it as either beareth any good ^f^'^^'^^^y- 



pasture, or may be tilled, lieth upon the Sea coast, which 



notwithstanding in some places is very rockie and stonie : 



and all Eastward, all along against the inhabited land, lie 



wilde and huge hilles and mountaines, which are in some 



places inhabited by the Fynnes. The inhabited land is 



broadest toward the South, & the further it stretcheth 



towards the North, it groweth evermore smaller and 



smaller. Towards the South it is peradventure threescore 



miles in bredth or broader in some places : about the 



middest, 30. miles or above, and towards the North where 



it is smallest, he affirmeth that it proveth not three miles 



from the Sea to the mountaines. The mountaines be in T'he bredth of 



breadth of such quantitie, as a man is able to traveile over ^^j ^°^^^^^^^^ 



r • 1 1 • 1 1 1 ofNorzoas. 



m a rortnight, and in some places no more then may be 



traveiled in sixe dayes. Right over against this land, in 



the other side of the mountaines, somewhat towards the 



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