[Sca-cooks] 'Viking' recipes

[Johnna Holloway]

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Food & Drink in Archaeology 1 [Prospect Books, 2008] contains the following papers:

“Dinner at the Edge of the World: Why the Greenland Norse Tried to Eat a European Diet in an Unforgiving Landscape” by Elizabeth Pierce.  Pp. 96-103 and “Living and Eating in Viking-Age Towns and their Hinterlands” by Kristopher Poole. Pp 104-112; Simonsson, Mikael, “‘A People who Eat Wood and Drink Water, the Devil can not Persuade, nor can Man.’ Food in Rural Areas During the Middle Ages (ca. AD 1050–1532) in County Dalarna, Sweden: An Example from Västannorstjärn.” 

 The Agrarian History of Sweden. From 4000 bc to ad 2000. Ed. Janken Myrdal & Mats Morell. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2011.

Medieval Food Traditions in Northern Europe. Edited by Sabine Karg. Copenhagen: National Museum of Denmark, 2007. (National Museum Studies in Archaeology & History volume 12.) Botanical lists of plants gleaned from various sites. Hanseatic Germany, Estonia, and Northern Poland; medieval Finland; Sweden and the Hanse; also medieval Denmark; and Norway. 

Johnnae
    
On Feb 11, 2013, at 10:05 AM, JIMCHEVAL at aol.com wrote:

> Ah. Good to know.
> 
> Sorry about the quote mix-up.  Can you point us to some more recent  
> sources, especially on bread?
> 
> The subject in general interests me since the Germanic culture of the  
> Migration era stretched from Scandinavia to Britain (the Burgundians are said to 
> have originally come from Sweden; the Franks brought the worship of Odin 
> and  Thor to France). So at least some of what was true farther north would 
> have been  true in early France as well.
> 
> Jim  Chevallier
> www.chezjim.com
> 
> Newly translated from Pierre Jean-Baptiste  Le Grand d'Aussy:
> Eggs, Cheese and Butter in Old Regime France  
> 
> 
> In a message dated 2/11/2013 3:35:44 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
> johnnae at mac.com writes:
> 
> I  believe that we do have a far better idea of what the Vikings ate
> than what  was downloaded to a website in  1998.
>