30/12/2021
"They were sailing north-east from Tromsø in January, bound for the cod-fishery off the coast of Finnmark, on the 70th degree of latitude. The sun did not rise above the horizon. It was more or less dusk for 3–4 hours in the middle of the day. For the rest of the day and night there was northern lights flaming in the polar sky. The temperature stayed at approximately –10 degrees C below freezing.
Five men were sailing north-east in an open Nordslandåttring….The weather was rough. They were weather-bound because of a north-westerly wind and drifting snow. Then my grandfather said that if anyone could make a fire in the cauldron, he should have a lefse (soft bread, buttered and served folded or rolled.)
They were lying in the boat with the sail for a tent. They had their fireplace in the cauldron....He had a try and managed to make fire in the cauldron. And then he got the lefse for my grandfather.”
–––Jon Godal interviewed many older fishermen along the coast of Norway who remembered working out of open boats, all found in "Recording Living Traditions of Square-Sail Rigged Norwegian Boats" (1984)
