Importance
Stockfish is Norway's longest sustained export commodity, and the socioeconomically most profitable export over the centuries. Stockfish is first mentioned as a commodity in the Icelandic saga "Egilssaga", when the Chief Torolv Kveldulvssøn in year 875 AD, shipped stockfish from Helgeland in mid Norway to Britain. This product represented most of Norways national income from Viking age throughout medieval age.
Preserved cod fed Iceland for centuries, to the extent where it has been described as a local equivalent of bread.
Stockfish is extremely popular and is widely consumed in Catholic Mediterrenean countries, notably Italy. (Stockfish is called stoccafisso in most Italian dialects, but confusingly baccalà—which normally refers to salt cod—in the Veneto).
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