If the Berries were actually grapes - then dried they would make
Raisins or Sultanas - aka Golden Raisins
Kveðja
Patricia 
I am given to understand that UK English - Sultanas
are Golden Raisins in the USA
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: llama_nom
Date: 12/08/2008 15:34:15
Subject: [norse_course] Re: Greenland 6 end + 7 beginning - - Grace's translation
 
--- 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?
 
 
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