--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Fred and Grace Hatton"
<hatton@...> wrote:

>
> What do they want with grapevines? Would they use them for weaving

baskets

> or something like that?? Also not too many berries in the spring.

The translation looks good. I wonder how familiar the writers of the
saga would have been with grapevines and what kind of wood they
imagined it to be. Could they perhaps have dried the berries they
picked the previous year and preserved them that way?