ara/ndano

[Sheila Watts]

Somebody else:

>>>I have no idea what a "bilberry" is. Is it something Hobbits eat?

Sheila Watts

>>Small mountain fruit called 'fraughan' in Ireland (in English, so to
>>speak).

>fraughan < Irish "fraocha/n" (< "fraoch" (= heather) + dim. suffix)
>= vaccinium myrtilis = whortleberry

>Dennis King

Whortleberries and bilberries are the same thing - both vaccinium myrtillus.

Sheila Watts
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