Talk:The Herring Song

The Hanseatic connection
At school in the 1960s, I remember hearing this song and being told that it was connected to a switch in the herring migrations away from waters fished by the Hanseatic League and into English and Scottish waters.

I've got no source for this so I have not included it. They were defnitely involved in the herring trade and at one time controlled it. They fought a war with Denmark in which control of herring fisheries was a major issue. But I have no basis for saying that this has anything to do with the song.

GwydionM (talk) 20:39, 26 March 2010 (UTC)