SC - Weird fish names

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Vincente wrote:
> Hello again!
> 
> I've run into some fish names that I can't figure out.  The editor of the 
> source text isn't very clear on them, and I can't find them in either the 
> 1729 or the 1992 editions of the Real Academia Espanola's dictionary.

I was struggling with some of those last night.

> Here we go:
> 
> Palamida: the editor of the source text cites it as a transliteration of a 
> fish called "pelamide" in Catalan.
> 
> bisol: no idea whatsoever.

Nanna has already answered you on those two, and her answers match what I have 
found.  One general comment on Nola: a lot of Catalanisms seemed to have 
survived into the later Castilian editions.  I have found it very helpful to 
have gotten a copy of the _Libre de Sent Sovi_, edited by Rudolf Grewe.  The 
footnotes and appendices shed a lot of light on difficult words.  I have also 
consulted an online Catalan dictionary -- and found a few helpful websites with 
Catalan/Castilian food terminology.  I will post the URLs later (I'm at work 
and don't have access to it right now).
 
> saiton: described as a bitter fish, best eaten with the head and entrails 
> removed.

I found a possible answer to this one... again, it's at home.  More, later.

Brighid,
.sigless

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