Almost 2 years ago we visited the yellow house in Lidhult for the first time.
After our first visit, there would be a second one, we drove around the area and discovered that there were a lot of “hults”.
The yellow house became Mooi Gula Huset when we bought it and we thought it would be a nice idea to find out where all those “hults” had their origins. A question on the Sweden forum was quickly posted and the answers came even faster. The “Institutet för språk och folkminnen” also offered a solution.
Hult comes from the German word “Holz” and therefore means wood or forest, that distinction is not made. The prefix for “hult” can be the name of e.g. vegetation, animals or even a person.
The most famous “hult” is Älmhult or better known as the IKEA village, Fagerhult is also a well-known one and means “Beautiful hult”, would have been something for us. There are lots of hults, especially in southern Sweden and especially in Skåne, Småland, Halland and Östergötland.
There was another message that said it could also be an open space in the forest, now we have that nearby, with a nice lake, come and have a look in Lidhult.
Where “Lid” comes from, we haven’t found out yet, to be continued …….
