Comments on: What’s Sopp!

By: Andy Behrens

Andy Behrens — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:30:09 +0000

The English name of those mushrooms is Inky Cap, and they are also found in North America. They’re edible and good… but with a warning. If you consume even small amounts of alcohol after eating them, you’ll become violently sick.

Myron: One mushroom, sitting in the bucket of an excavator, says to the other, who is operating the excavator’s controls: “Hei sopp” [hey, mushroom] / “Heis spp” [raise it up].

By: Evangeline

Evangeline — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 06:56:14 +0000

Love the pics of your child innocently and eagerly taking a bite of the mushroooms. Keep up the good work with the posting.

By: Lars Sørbekk

Lars Sørbekk — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:18:04 +0000

That cluster of shrooms are “Blekk-sopp” if I’m not wrong. (INK-mushroom in English), from the black colour rubbing off from the bottom.
You should also know that in the northern Norway (and all over really), there’s LOTS of these psillocybine mushrooms, so when you see them in these clusters, you really wanna know what to eat if you don’t wanna end up on a wild mushroom-trip. (That kind of shrooms are called FleinSopp mostly).

By: Myron

Myron — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 07:41:05 +0000

Hello

My name is Myron Lee Soppeland.

I recently found out that my family name translates as Mushroom Land.

After a few internet searches I found “What Sopp”.

I love the site, especially Lilu,

I wanted to know if there is some significance to the name that you might know of.

I was also intrigued by the joke that Samantha sent. My translator ,of course, can not give me much of an idea about the word play involed but it gave me enough to confuse me for a while and before my imagination runs wild I thought I would see if it is explainable in English or will I have to learn Nynorsk and move to Ardal before I understand?

By the way I think it would be a fair trade. The more I learn about the “Old country” as grampa used to say, the more I want to be there. However, 30 years of St Louis (MO) winters have probably softened me up to much to survive a real winter.

I thank you for any help you can provide

Myke

By: Evangeline

Evangeline — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:43:45 +0000

I love the pictures of the little one taking a nibble of the mushroom. Sweet!