[Sca-cooks] Salt in Iceland (was Honey butter)

[edoard at medievalcookery.com]

> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Stefan li Rous 
> 
> Of course salt wasn't very available in Iceland, so they didn't salt  
> their butter and it soured/fermented to the Icelandic version. See  
> the fd-Iceland-msg file in the Florilegium for more details, much of  
> it from Nanna, our previous list member who was an author on historic  
> Icelandic cooking.

Salt not available in Iceland?  This seems a bit odd to me, considering
it's an island surrounded by salt water, and that most (all?) of the
settlements are on the coast.  They didn't use sea water as brine?  (I'm
not saying they did - I know pretty much squat about Iceland)

- Doc