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Caribou wrote

I used my allemansrätt today to go out and pick blueberries in the forest :)
also! fun fact! The name is a pun. Rätten can mean "the right" as in "every man's right", but also "the meal".
So in this case you could read it as Every man's meal, since its like a staple food!

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twovests OP wrote

:D! This is a very fun fact indeed.

I am curious how the word "rätten" reads. Wikitionary says it can be a right, a dish, or even a court or a law. Is it just a typical homonym (in the way a bank can be a place of finance or a bend in a river) or does the meaning of being a dish/meal somehow share meaning with being a right? I can see good/correct/right/nourishing being related in my head

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Caribou wrote

As far as I know its just a homonym. But it does feel nice if they were to be connected

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