Wow, this is ridiculously imprecise. As people here have already pointed out, "jordgubbe" is the commonly used word for "strawberry" in Swedish. This is a "smu

Wow, this is ridiculously imprecise. As people here have already pointed out, "jordgubbe" is the commonly used word for "strawberry" in Swedish. This is a "smultron": https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Fragaria_vesca_LC0389.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Fragaria... (wild strawberry) and this is a "jordgubbe": https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Fragola_1.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Fragola_... (strawberry) In the end one of his theories may be right, but one would think he would mention that "jordgubbe", also means "earth berry", I'm actually quite frustrated that he's not concerned about creating a myth around what the word "smultron" means, isn't his job to bring clarity and not confusion? One can only hope that not many other academics read this and spin things off of such a poor foundation, and instead opt to figure things out on their own, which is bound to be more reliable than basing anything off of this. It's actually quite embarrassing how many times a 5-year old's comprehension of Swedish could clear things up in the case of professors playing fast and loose with translations of Swedish or Old Norse. It would be way better if they asked a Swede before publishing things, in the case of Swedish translations, and perhaps reaching out to an Icelander when they're trying to translate Old Norse. Although it might not sound like it, this is actually the charitable critique, if he is actually fluent in Swedish, I wouldn't know where to begin. It might also be worth pointing out that in the case of the Bergman title, "Smultronstället" refers to something very specific, and is a common idiom, namely, a place that only you and your family/close friends know about and cherish. Of course, the etymology of this term is trivial to figure out, but I don't know why this trivia was even mentioned in the post to begin with, so perhaps not? Sorry for ranting, I just hate it when a few minutes/seconds of extra research could have cleared up some confusion for a lot of people.