[Sca-cooks] Big fish

[Jeff Gedney]

>My husband came across this and forwarded it to me--
>It is one massive fish.

Not so large as one herring brought in at Caister during the 
Yarmouth Herring Fair (source: History of Yarmouth by William Finch-Crisp  - Published 1877) extracted on web page http://www.ean.co.uk/Data/Bygones/History/Local/Norfolk/Great_Yarmouth/Crisp/html/body_crisp1.htm


"Large fish, 17 yards long, the jaw 3.25 yards long, body 4.5 yards 
thick, caught at Caister"
 
Capt Elias
-Renaissance Geek of the Cyber Seas

- Help! I am being pecked to death by the Ducks of Dilletanteism! 
There are SO damn many more things I want to try in the SCA 
than I can possibly have time for. It's killing me!!!

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Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
You stand upon the ravage and behold
A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical,
Holding due course to Harfleur. 
  - Shakespeare - Henry V, Act III, Prologue