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VON TROIL’s LETTERS ON ICELAND. 654
The Icelanders in general eat three meals a day, at feven in the morning, at two ia
the afternoon, and at nine in the evening.
In the morning and evening they commonly eat curds mixed with new milk, and
fometimes with juniper berries, and thofe of empetrum nigrum. In fome parts they alfo
have pottage of fdé/grés, which, I aflure you, is very palatable ; vallidra/fli, or curdled
milk, boiled till it becomes of a red colour ; /eiddmijolk, or new milk, boiled a long
while. At dinner, their food confifts of dried fith, with plenty of four butter. They
alfo fometimes eat frefh fifh, and, when poflible, a little bread and cheefe with them. It
is reported by fome, that they do not eat any fifh till it is quite rotten; this report, per-
haps, proceeds from their being fond of it when a little tainted: they however, fre-
quently eat fifh which is quite frefh, though in the fame manner as the reft of their
food, often without falt.
On Sunday, and in harveft-time, they have broth made of meat, which is often
boiled in /yra, inftead of water ; and in winter they eat hung or dried meat.
‘Their common beverage is milk, either warm from the cow, or cold, and fometimes
boiled: they likewife make butter-milk, with or without water. On the coafts they
generally drink d/anda*, and four milk; which is fold, after it is fkimmed, at two-
fifths of a rix-dollar a cafk: fome likewife fend for beer from Copenhagen, and fome
others brew their own. A few of the principal inhabitants alfo have claret and coffee.
The common people fometimes drink a kind of tea, which they make from the leaves
of Holta-follyg | and Spudwell {.
This is the ufual manner of life in Iceland. In all countries the living of the poor
differs effentially from that of the rich ; and if an Iceland gentleman can afford to eat
meat, butter, fhark, and whale, the peafants are obliged to content themfelves with fifh,
blanda, milk, pottage of rock-grafs, and beina-/eriug. ‘Though the Icelanders cannot
in general be {aid to be in want of neceflary aliment, yet the country has feveral times
been vifited by great famines: thefe, however, have been chiefly owing to the Green-
land floating-ice, which, when it comes in great qnantities, prevents the grafs from
growing, and puts an entire {top to their fifhing.
I need not acquaint you, that we were not neceflitated to fubmit to their manner of
life during our ftay in Iceland. Inftead of b/anda we drank port, and feveral other
* Inthe Elfdalln of Wermeland in Sweden, the common beverage of the country people is milk,
mixed with water, and called by them Blanda.
+ Dryas o€topetala. { Veronica officinales.
Lichen Coraloides, Kreda,
- - Niveus, Mariu-gras.
- - Leprofus, Getina-/kof.
Arundo Arenaria, Melur.
- - foliorum lateribus convolutis.
Cochlearia, Skarfa-kaal.
Plantago anguttifolia, Selgre/e.
Epilobium tertagonum, Purpura-blomftur.
Polygonum biftorta, Korn/ura.
Sifymbrium, Lin. Ka#tar-balfam.
|| Ventrofa crafla, Ku/kel, /helku/Rel.
Domiporta, Kudungur, kufungur, kongur.
Mytulus, Kraklingur.
- = = Major, dda.
4 Agaricus caulefcens, pileo albo, Aitte-fveps.
- - -fuprapileo plano, £te-/vepr.
- - -fubconvexo, Reyde-kula.
- « «ofan unknown fort, Bhikula.
VOL. I. ri : 4 P forts
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