Crossword-Solution: LOFOTEN 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

And “Lord preserve us!” mutter the old wives seated round the stove within doors--and their thoughts are far away in the north with the Lofoten fishermen, out at sea, maybe, this very night.

All through the winter they had been kept at grown-up work, cutting peat and carrying wood; why should they be left now to fool about with the inshore fishing, and bring home nothing better than flounders and coal-fish and silly codlings? The big deep-sea line they were forbidden to touch--that was so--but the Lofoten fishery was at its height, and none of the men would be back till it was over.

And next, with his little wooden chest on his shoulder, he was finding his way up through the streets by the quay to a lodging-house for country folk, which he knew from former visits, when he had come to the town with the Lofoten boats.

And when the winter came he would have to do as the others did--hire himself out, young and small as he was, for the Lofoten fishing.

But when January came, there was Peer in oil-skins, in the foc’s’le of a Lofoten fishing-smack, ploughing the long sea-road north to the fishing-grounds, in frost and snow-storms.