_kaarskörd_ (corn-reaping). In Norway there are current as general time-indications:--fishing-time (_fiskja_), springtime (_voarvinna_ or _voaronn_), ploughing-time (_plogen_ or _plogvinna_), midsummer (_haavoll_ or _haaball_), ‘between time’, i. e. between ploughing and hay-making, (_mellonn_), early summer (_leggsumar_), haymaking-time (_høyvinna_, _høyonn_, or _slaatt_), harvest-time (_haustvinna_ or _skurd_), ‘shortest-days-time’ (_skamtid_)[325]. In Iceland, where the sheep-farming is the principal industry, we find:--Lamb-weaning time or Pen-tide, _stekk-tid_, in May; Parting-tide, _fra-faerar_, when the sheep are driven to the hills; Market-tide, _kaup-tid_, when all purchases for the year are made; Home-field hay-time and Out-field hay-time (July and August); Folding-tide, _rettir_ (September), when the sheep are driven off the hill pastures into folds to be separated into flocks and marked. Again from wild birds and eider-ducks one calls the spring Egg-tide. The fisherman uses such seasons as _ver-tid_, Fishing-tide; of these there is a spring, an autumn, and a winter fishing-month. Flitting-days, _fardagar_, come in the spring, and _skil-dagar_ in summer, when servants leave.[326] In the old German laws and elsewhere similar time-indications are common, e. g. at plough-time, at the second plough-time, at autumn-sowing, at harvest, at hay-making time, at hemp-gathering, after harvest and hay-making, at the bean-harvest, at plough-time, at the grape-harvest, at sowing-time, at harvest-time, fall of the leaves, sprouting of the leaves, oat-cutting or harvest[327]. In Anglo-Saxon a similar expression occurs in a law of King Vihtraed in the year 696, _sexton dæge rugernes_ (rye-harvest). These periods are in themselves indefinite, they fail to achieve a definite length or quite fixed position in the year. Where they do so, this is due to the comparison with the Julian months, of which more later.