7* NATURAL HISTORY of N RW A Y. 



rumor nos terrere debet, epilepticos infultus ex ufu harum plu- 

 marum timentium, quod periculum necdum ullus, quod fciam, 

 incurrit. The Edder's, as well as many other Strand Birds eggs, 

 are brought in here to market, by thofe farmers that live near 

 Bergen ; and they are faid to be very good and well-tafted : but 

 on the contrary, the flefh taftes fifty ; fo that none of thefe Birds 

 are eat, except by the poor, that facrifice tafte to neceffity ; yet 

 one may mend the tafte in fome meafure, if they are parboiled 

 in vinegar, or foaked in vinegar before they are roafted. 



E £ de. The Egde, Nightingale, is a frriall Land Bird, fomething like 



a Lark : it is peculiar in this ; that in Summer it fings all night 

 long without intermiffion. 



Eive-Konge. The Elve-Konge, or Owzel, is fo called, becaufe it always 

 haunts rivers, pleating itfelf with fluttering over running water, 

 and jumping from one ftone to another : it's make is fomething 

 like a Thrufh, black, and with a white ring round his neck. 



Erie. The Erie, or Ring Erie, is fomething like the former, but of 



a blue grey on the back, a black head, and a little white on the 

 fides ; the hen is more grey : it is only feen in the Summer, and 

 is faid to lie in a ftate of infenfibility all the Winter. 



SECT. VII. 



Faik, The Falk, or Falcon, which J. Klein, p. 47, diftinguifhes into 



z 1 / different forts, are found the fartheft north, of the beft and 

 moft ufeful kinds for hawking : I have nothing to do with thofe 

 which are annually exported from Iceland, and not without a 

 confiderable charge ; and then are fent far about to foreign 

 courts. I fhall only obferve, that here in Norway, particularly 

 in Ofterdalen ; and alfo in the diocefe of Chriftianfand, and par- 

 ticularly at Jedderen, there is found extraordinary good Falcons 

 for the fport ; they are grey and white, and are of feveral kinds, 

 large and fmall : to catch them we generally ufed to have people 

 come from Germany and the Netherlands annually. Thefe expert 

 Falconers feparate themfelves about the rocks, and generally ftay 

 about a month, or fomething longer, that they may each of them 

 get a booty. They catch but few, from which we may judge 

 of their value, which will anfwer fo long a journey *. They catch 

 them in nets, under which they put a pigeon for a'bait. Here by 

 the fea fide, particularly at Sundmoer, are feen what we call 

 Fifhing-Falcons : they have their principal living on the water, 



* This Falcon-catching is farmed to the Brabant people, by a certain family to 

 whom his majefly has granted it, 



but 



