wiki-illiam #104: q5

[dubdobdee]

5: Travelling from Nordic lands, try unravelling:
i: the eponymous traitor,
ii: then Merrill's famed fisherman partner
iii: and a misplaced cygnet,
iv: contrasting with a little anser,
v: thousands of whose elders visit a Waddenzee barrier island,
vi: while in Belgium, memories of Ursula are awakened by a Flemish Primitive,
vii: and in the Amblève, or perhaps the Lesse, one might confusingly make geometry a sport
viii: and try to catch a little trout
ix: or even its seemingly lepidopteran relative
x: before celebrating in Germany with Piesport's speciality

the rules as they have evolved:
a: nice full answers and anecdotes if poss
b: say if googled or no; leave time for non-googlers to play
c: obviously look ahead at future questions if you want
d: don't bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running

spoilers: i is vidkun quisling of norway (its collaborating under the nazis, hence a "quisling"); iii is hans christian andersen's ugly duckling, of denmark -- can't work out the overall idea though (ie what "unravel" might mean)

Comments

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

So: vii) is 'angling' (geometry) then viii) is 'troutling'?

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

oops now redundant from ddd's ans. above/

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

a1739 JARVIS Quix. I. I. ii, If there be many troutlings,..they will supply the place of one trout. 1856 ‘STONEHENGE’ Brit. Sports I. v. iii. §13 In using the Spinning-Tackle with the parr-tail or troutling as a bait, it is spun exactly as for trout. 1889 H. C. PENNELL Fishing 100 The catching and eating of half a dozen troutlings.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

too many answers to viii!