Skyr (1809) and other Icelandic foods; Greenland cursing proverb

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   Greetings from Borgarnes, Iceland.  More birds and waterfalls today.  Yesterday, I passed by Snorri Sturleson.
   Northern "Ireland" in a last posting should have been Northern "Iceland"...The hotel disconnects the fax, starts up the internet, I finally get on, I've got 60 messages, and six people from my tour group ask, "Are you going to be long?"

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SKYR

   Time to antedate the OED on the national dish by about 50 years.
   From THE ICELAND TRAVELLER: A HUNDRED YEARS OF ADVENTURE (Iceland Review, 1989) by Alan Boucher, pg. 44, taken from JOURNAL OF A TOUR OF ICELAND IN THE SUMMER OF 1809 by William Jackson Hooker (1813):

   _Skiur_, which is thick curd, may also be reckoned a common article of food: this they prefer after it has acquired a sour, and even a rancid, taste; though, when fresh, or when it has attained only a slight degree of acidity, and is eaten with cream and sugar, it is really an enviable article of luxury...

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ICELANDIC FOOD

   From the ICELAND REVIEW, February 2000, pg. 40:

   ...such native specialties as _smlaskinka_ (dried, smoked leg of lamb), _grafid hrossafile_ (cured horse fillet), the curious twist of sausage called _smælingi_ (smoked and dried fillet of lamb) and the best-selling little black parcels of _grafid nautakjot_--cured beef a la gravlax, flavoured with Icelandic thyme.  Also popular is the uniquely Icelandic _tadreykt_ range--trout, salmon and lamb smoked the traditional way over horse and sheep manure (no, your yes aren´t deceiving you).

(Maybe that´s why they seem to prefer hot dogs--ed.)

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SUPERTRUCKS

   Supertruck is much less frequent than superjeep.
   However, www.adventure.is has Supertruck.

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GREENLAND PROVERB

   An old Greenlandic saying is "god forgives mushers and priests if they are cursing."  The saying tells something about the difficulties of steering a bunch of dogs.