20 June 2024, The Tablet

Of cod and kindness


Of cod and kindness

Act of cod: dried fish (above) are turned into a simple meal for Lent; below, a fishing village in the south of the Lofoten archipelago
photos: Marie Peyre Bodø

 

What links the glorious city of Venice with a little-known island in the Arctic Circle – and how was the Catholic Church involved? Joanna Moorhead travels to Norway and Italy to unravel the uplifting story of an unlikely cultural exchange

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