SWEDISH. 61 



Norwegian author. It is partly historical, partly descriptive, 

 the subject being divided into sections entitled : — 



"Falkejagtens Opkomst og Bsesen ; Falkejagtens Udbredelse ; 

 Jagtfuglene ; Falkenes Indfangning ; Falkenes Afrettelse ; and 

 Jagten." Some particulars are given respecting the numbers of 

 Jerfalcons formerly taken in Norway and Iceland for exporta- 

 tion, the mode of capturing them, and the prices paid for them. 



137. ANON. Om Jagt-Falken. Stockholm. 1833. 



Printed in the "Tidsskrift for Jagare och Naturforskare 

 utgifven af Jagare-forbundet " (pp. 352-363). 



All attempts, says Schlegel {op. cit. p. 80), to fix the date of 

 the introduction of hawking in Scandinavia and Denmark have 

 been fruitless. We are entirely ignorant whether the art was 

 carried thither by the colonists who (tradition says) came there 

 from Asia, or whether it was introduced by the Normans, who, 

 in the early part of the Middle Ages, invaded the shores of 

 Great Britain, France, Holland, and many other countries. 

 Hawks are mentioned in the Scandinavian and Icelandic 

 "Sagas," but not in such a way as to lead to the inference that 

 they were trained for the purposes of falconry. 



It is of interest to note that Linnaeus in the Journal of his 

 Tour in Dalecarlia, 1734 (the original MS. of which, in Swedish, 

 is in the Library of the Linnean Society of London), describes 

 his meeting with some Dutch falconers who were catching hawks 

 with the aid of a Grey Shrike. He gives sketches of the hoods 

 and other appliances used by them, and expresses surprise that 

 no Swede had learnt to catch and train hawks, and so, like 

 the Dutchmen, made money thereby. 



Jfrencb* 



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 ET de la Royne Ratio. Cy commence le livre du Roy 

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