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intvs continentur” (Argentorati 1532), the following paragraph 
will be found under the heading *Schondia”: 
«Tractus totus Norduegie est milis, mare non conglaciatur. 
Niues non diu durant. Habet etiam terra hær pestem peculiarem 
quam Leem uel Lemmer uocant patrio sermone. Heæc est bestiola 
quadrupes magmitudine soricis, pelle uaria, hæ per tempestates et 
repentinos imbres decidunt, incompertum adhuc unde, an ex remo- 
tiorib. imsulis et huc uento delatæ an ex nubibus feculentis temere 
natæ deferantur. Id compertum est, statim atque deciderunt repe- 
riuntur im uiscerib. herbæ crudæ nondum concocte, hæ more lo- 
custarum depascuntur ommnia wirentia, & quæ morsu tantum attige- 
rint, emoriuntur wirulentia, unit hær pestis donec non gustauerit 
herbam renatam, comueniumt quoque gregatim quasi hyrundines 
aualoture, sed stato tempore aut morumtur aceruatim cum lue 
terre, ex quarum corruptione aer fit pestilens et adficit Norduegos 
uertigine, et icterici, uel ab alijs bestiys dictis Lefrat! consumun- 
tur unde pinguescunt et reddunt pelles aliquanto laxtores humana 
MENSUra.” 
Ziegler's account is, as he explains in the preface, based 
on what he himself had heard, while staying in Rome in 1522— 
23, from two Archbishops from Nidaros (Trondhjem) who were 
present there during his sojourn. 
Thus here, for the first time, will be found the theory ad- 
vanced of their descent from the clouds (about the year 1590), 
and the two Trondhjem Bishops may accordingly be regarded as 
the fathers of that hypothesis. 
The lemmings are again here compared to the locusts; further- 
more it is pointed out that they perish in thousands, and that 
My thanks are due to Professor G. Storm for having called my 
attention to this original edition (of which even Hildebrand's copy 
is wanting in our University library). 
The treatise was, moreover, reprinted 1575, in "Alberti Krantzii 
Rervm Germanicarum Historici . .. Chronica” (p. 487), Francofvrti ad Moe- 
nvm 1575. 
1 Undoubtedly a misplint (in Ziegler's original) for "Lekat” (i. e. 
Mustela erminea). 
