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a golden Arctic jewel so stubborn no farmer has truly tamed it
means A small amber-colored Arctic fruit, related to the raspberry, that grows on low boggy ground in cold northern regions.
from The 'cloud' here likely points upward — to the hills, fells, and high moors where the berry grows, places once described as cloudlands. English borrowed and reshaped this from older Northern and Scandinavian forms; in Norway and Sweden the fruit carries quite different names (Norwegian 'multe,' Swedish 'hjortron'), so 'cloudberry' is very much an English coinage rooted in the high, misty places it favors. The 'berry' half is the plain Old English 'berie,' a fruit-word as old as the language itself.
- frost lover
- thrives where most fruit freezes to death
- color shift
- ripens from red to amber, backwards of most berries
- liqueur fame
- Finland's Lakka liqueur is built around it
- vitamin c
- packs more than oranges per gram
- royal status
- Norway once protected wild pickers by law
cloudberry liqueur — lakka, a finnish golden liqueur made from cloudberries, produced since 1821