Practical Icelandic: Berry Picking / Berjamó

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Practical Icelandic: Berry Picking / Berjamó

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Күн бұрын

Berry picking is a traditional late-summer activity in Iceland. Here are all the words and phrases you need to know in order to take part in this fun tradition!
Berjamó - Berry picking, literally 'berry moor'
Frábært veður! - Great weather
Bláber - Blueberry
Krækiber Crowberry, literally 'hook-berry'
Hrútaber - Rubus saxatilis, Stone bramble, literally 'ramsberry'
Skollareipi - Berry stem, literally devil's/boogeyman's-rope'
Tröllareipi - Berry stem, literally 'troll's-rope'
Please be careful when foraging for berries or other edible plants, do not consume anything that you are not confident about identifying!
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@lilyvanilli2758 Жыл бұрын

Polly is my favourite KZfaq star ❤️

@ShannonWare Жыл бұрын

Despite wars and famines and climate change, Polly stays happy and free.

@stuw4943 Жыл бұрын

A very relaxing trip in the Icelandic outdoors. Made more possible with amazing weather.

@ShannonWare Жыл бұрын

It is very interesting to me that you would post this now. I live in Ireland, and right now we are approaching the height of the blackberry season.* There are so many by the road side in the country, that you just pass them by being in a hurry. But in August we were in northern Ontario, Canada. Our hosts had cultivated raspberries on their property, which were perfectly delicious, and said we should go out every day even for breakfast to eat the berries. But also in the back of their property there were wild raspberries, which were smaller an honestly much sweeter and more aromatic. Then, they took us in a pickup truck up the mountain an hour away and we picked wild blueberries. They did not look like the 'blueberries' that you are picking, but were perfectly round. They were so aromatic. At certain times there was just a tremendous amount of blueberries, and our guide said, 'So the bear has not found these, that is why there are so many.' (*My neighbour says his father said don't eat them after Saint ???'s day, which is September 15, but there will be berries until the end of September.) I myself am from southern California, and needless to say there is nothing in the wild there that we would pick and eat. In my opinion now this is the height of poverty. Welcome to the north.

@HeidiRaatz Жыл бұрын

What a fun episode and brilliant weather! Lots of wild berries to snack on in Switzerland, though the season is definitely at it's end now. My favorites are the tiny wild strawberries. 😋 Folks here are super into hunting wild mushrooms, but you really must know your edible species well! Last time I was in Iceland I remember having some delicious crowberry liqueur, another way to enjoy them. 😉

@kimmcdaniel4934 Жыл бұрын

I always enjoy your videos in which you teach us new Icelandic words. I cannot roll my "r"s either, Josie. Great to see Polly

@ptournas Жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable lesson! Polly seemed to be in a more relaxed mood than usual, but she did appear to be enjoying the trip. I was also happy to see Josie join you in this one, we haven't seen her as much lately and I think she's quite charming. Thanks to all of you for a nice and relatively painless lesson in Icelandic 😃

@oldfart6318 Жыл бұрын

That was wonderful. I loved to see the soft moss that you were walking on, amazing.

@vdubz243 Жыл бұрын

Being Scottish like Josie I will give it it try... A chill relax day for Polly. Lovely weather and scenery once again 🌞

@billthorne1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Art for those berry close ups. Queen Polly is having a great time surrounded by her subjects. Valur and Josie thank you for the wonderful berry picking adventure.

@darlenemckay265 Жыл бұрын

When I was in Iceland, I took a cross-country horseback riding trip. There were wild blueberries everywhere and when we would stop for a break, we loved picking the berries for a snack!

@colleenpye4204 Жыл бұрын

Those berries make my mouth water. Best I can do is purchase frozen berries and have them with a creamy yoghurt. Enjoyed the trip with you,Valur and Josie and Art to pick berries and learn more Icelandic words A lovely activity to share with family and/or friends. Shooting people with raspberries! Naughty, naughty, naughty. Sounds like fun. Hi Polly.

@brendakearns1402 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful day! I could never roll my R’s either. I so enjoyed the language lesson. Queen Polly had a wonderful outing. Use to pick blackberries on the way to catch the school bus. I am 63 so back then the area I lived in was Rural. Thank you for taking us along.

@md2perpe Жыл бұрын

Swedish names of the berries: blåbär (direct translation: blueberry; Icelandic: bláber), kråkbär (direct translation: crowberry; Icelandic: krækiber), stenbär (translation: stoneberry; Icelandic: hrútaber) The berry shown @10:38 is probably 'arctostaphylos uva-ursi'; Icelandic: sortulyng, Swedish: mjölon. It's very closely related to lingonberry.

@bitchn_betty Жыл бұрын

We pick blueberries in end May to early June in Wisconsin.

@WhiteTiger333 Жыл бұрын

Oh, fun! I stopped the video after Josie mentioned they are actually bilberries, and got my recently acquired Flowering Plants and Ferns of Iceland. I see that the bog bilberry flowers and leaves most closely resemble, in shape, the North American blueberry. Then I went online to compare the two and discovered that the bilberry never shows up in supermarkets. It is more delicate and perishable than the blueberry, so they are only found in local specialty markets or you have to go out there and get them yourself if you want them! 😀 I had loads of fun looking up every berry you mentioned, as well as practicing rolling my rrrrrs. The occasional, random squeaky toy sound only added to the fun.

@krisklopf1901 Жыл бұрын

We call warm weather after a cold spell in fall Indian Summer. So you must be having an Indian Summer. Thanks for informing us on some of the language!!

@muleskinnerfilms6719 Жыл бұрын

She’s adorable❤️

@irishmonk8120 Жыл бұрын

love a scot finding an R

@roonilwazlib3089 Жыл бұрын

I drag my bairns scrumping all the time, Northumberland 🇬🇧

@chezmanya Жыл бұрын

Berry picking is very much a thing in the Pacific Northwest. Our blueberry season starts in late July and is winding up right about now. In August we pick raspberries, blackberries, boysenberries and marionberries. We do this as families or in groups of friends and it definitely is a summer/early fall pasttime. If you ask anybody in my part of Oregon , we all have bags of berries in our freezer to pull out during the winter months to remind us that summer is coming.💕 please send us Some good weather because we are having terrible smoke from forest fires. as always, I love your language lesson. It is not difficult when you realize that Icelandic is basically an agglutinative language.

@Jillysmom63 Жыл бұрын

Yep, I'm in Washington and I'm picking blackberries right now. We have a lot of raspberry plants here on our farm so the freezers are full of them now and we do a have a bunch of old blueberry bushes but the birds usually get them before we do and they don't put out much anymore because they are so old. I miss huckleberries though! I haven't seen any of them growing wild in the area in years and as a kid we had tons of them. Huckeberry pancakes were great to have! I'd love to try the Icelandic ones though wouldn't you?

@quietone748 Жыл бұрын

@@Jillysmom63 I adore Huckleberries!

@nickylambert5462 Жыл бұрын

Berry season in Wales seemed to come much earlier this year, wild raspberries black & red currants in peaked in late June & Blackberries early August. We also have Wimberries on the moors & mountains which are like small blueberries.

@tonyf9984 Жыл бұрын

They're called 'bilberries' here in the Yorkshire Dales - but the only thing they have in common with blueberries is their colour. They have a different, much stronger taste, and in my experience of gorging myself on them near Dettifoss are the self-same fruit as the wild 'blueberries' found in Iceland.

@quietone748 Жыл бұрын

So you are telling me that Scotland (Skolla) is evil? lol I grow raspberries in my garden, and some blueberries and Bilberries like the ones you are picking there. But we also have wild blueberries, which are much smaller and grow low to the ground, and they are very sweet. There also are Huckleberries, which look similar. Gooseberries are large and green like grapes and are very, very sour but good in pies. We have blackberries that are very big and wild raspberries that can be yellow, red or black. Cloudberries don't grow here, but farther up north in Canada.

@Jillysmom63 Жыл бұрын

So you dont have blackberries there? I would have thought you would. These things will grow almost anywhere! and are almost impossible to get rid of them 😄. They grow wild all over here, 2 kinds actually, a larger and a smaller adn they taste much different than each other. They are a nuisance here though, growing on the sides of the roads and around the edges of forests or around old farms and all around the edges of pasture fencing, but they are really good to pick and cook with them. I'm making a berry cobbler today from some. We also have raspberries and blueberrys all over here too in the Pacific NW of the US. Your blueberry bushes are quite a lot taller than the kind you are picking. I'd love to try all the berrys you have there, they sound interesting!. I think your blueberry might be harder to pick being so low to the ground though, I'd get a back ache 😅. Thanks for showing us the different kinds! it looked like there were pretty pink flowers on some plants there too, are they part of the bluebrry plants or a seperate plant kind of like Heather?

@fancypantsism Жыл бұрын

In Canada in British Columbia we call crow berries huckleberries, and they are the best. I think they are even better than blueberries.

@lindadavis6336 Жыл бұрын

You could make delicious muffins with the berries

@melissahdawn Жыл бұрын

Crow in Norwegian is Krakka, so pretty similar to crow berry.

@DisVietVetUSA Жыл бұрын

I love strawberry, ligon berry, raspberry, boysenberry and traditoon pie berry Balckberry

@vocative-name Жыл бұрын

Amazing intro 😄❤

@human_isomer Жыл бұрын

Again some similarities to German, as Bláber and German Blaubeere have a very similar pronunciation and the same meaning. And isn't "crow" also related to some kind of hook? Thinking of crowbar here.

@Rimrock300 Жыл бұрын

'Kreklingbær' in Norwegian, normally justcalled 'krekling'. Must be a old name since about the same in Icelandic

@mariannehansen2691 Жыл бұрын

Are your blueberries purple inside and stain really well, like the ones in Norway? PS - if you shared the latin names of the berries, it would be easier for others to know exactly which berries you are picking.

@ouchsp Жыл бұрын

The inedible red berry looks like pyricantha berries which are very tart and poisonous in large quantities. They usually grow on small trees and bushes, I think. They also make birds drunk!