The Food of the Vikings 

Thank you very much ^^

Good luck with the making of that bread hehe. Nowadays we have a wonderful variety of foods, but at the same time a great percentage is unnatural and slowly makes us sick, and we consume as much pills as we consume food. I was healthier when I spent my summers (and sometimes springs) in the village. While on the city, going to the supermarket is amazing with all the different choices of food, but I feel less healhty and actually without much energy.. it's like I'm eating coagulated dust or something xD

@@ArithHärger uh-oh, there goes the supermarket secrets. Since you've blown their cover I'll look over your shoulder for you until you can make it back to the village. 😂

Is that why we had fat kings hahah

They often say "home is where our heart is"... well, mine is on food :o

@@ArithHärger saaaame

@Vis Vers I carried cream while walking home from the store about a mile and jostling it turned it to butter. It was the best butter we ever had. If whipping cream didn't cost a fortune I'd make it myself all the time.

How does Swedish butter differ from American butter?

@@theflerffyburr7919 I think it’s because of the fat levels in the cream? It was just much more flavorful and firmer than the butter I have at home. American butter isn’t meant to be left out and gets really soft, but the Swedish butter maintained a good consistency at room temperature

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Oh! Thank you very much! :D I'm happy to know that. Thank you

thank you very much my dear friend hehe :D

Oh! ASMR? I should try lol. Thank you!

@@ArithHärger I'm binge watching your videos. Really fantastic. New subscriber from New Jersey in US.

Traitorous Milk Drinker

HA! ....Psst. Hail Sithis.

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Well fancy finding you here my friend!👍👍👍 Seems we have a common interest outside our regular community interactions! Keep Breathing!

hehe yes :P thank you for the suggestion my good friend!

That can cause IBS too

while I was researching and writing this video, I ate a lot :x

Interesting

Great to know that ^^

They are found along the coast of Norway too. But we don't eat it.

While I was making my research on this, I was constantly eating hehe.

@@ArithHärger Did they eat beans?

@@colinp2238 That was one of the few things I was certain I would find, but didn't... surprisingly. But then again, maybe not that surprising. Beans in Europe are relatively new, perhaps dating back 4000 years ago the first ones to be cultivated in European ground in the south, precisely during the end of the Neolithic period of southern Europe. The agriculture revolution took it's time to reach the north. When the south was entering the Chalcolithic, the British Isles were finally entering the Neolithic. So in Scandinavia the Neolithic arrived pretty late, I mean.. there wasn't even a specific and well-defined Neolithic period for Scandinavia. It hightly depends on the soils. To some countries the Neolithic is perfectly noticeable, to others furthern North it's just a something that happened quickly without major changes. Mostly in Scandinavia it was just turnips and leeks, small wonder people were so bloody miserable... turnips are tasteless little s**ts :p

@@ArithHärger Have you seen Blackadder? Baldrick has a penchant for turnips. The Vikings could have come across them on their voyages to Portugal?

@@colinp2238 Speaking of beans and Baldrick - two beans, and then adding two more beans = Some beans or a very small casserole.

In northern sealand in Denmark a museum is building a replica of a viking age bridge (Ravningebroen) the original bridge was several kilometers while the museum is "only" building 700m. They're using techniques and tools from the viking age and thousands of planks are carved with axes alone. See more at www.VikingeBro.dk it's about one hour north of Copenhagen

Mr. Thorstein went back to his burial mound... I have to resurrect him again :/ Hehe, thank you very much my good friend, as awalys your feedback is greatly appreciated ^^

Ah, I see then. He is drinking mead with Óðinn in the great hall, among fellow Viking folk? Well, you can do a great thing if you can summon him back for Yule and for the winter, or maybe even longer? He's a good lad, don't be too hard on him. You know how "horned helmed" Vikings are nowadays, right? Give 'em beer, food and metal and the rest is history! Thank you as well my friend! Excellent videos lately. :)

Bog Myrtle was found in both York and Hedeby and was used in Brewing. Meadowsweet was found in York and Kaupang and used in Brewing & Dying. While this is no actual evidence that indicates that meadowsweet was used in Mead, meadowsweet is called Mjødurt in Norwegian and Danish, which literally means "mead herb". Check out Daniel Serra's book "An Early Meal". It has a lot of plant data from various Viking Age dig sites throughout Scandinavia as well as recreated recipes based on the evidence.

If this is a question to the general commenter public, personally I'd pick this era in the west. We have it so much easier than our ancestors did. We don't have to worry about dying of frostbite, gathering food for the winter, plundering and territorial war over our farmlands. Though I do believe we could do with a change in diet. I've been living off of microwave food for the past 3 years and it has significantly stumped my progress in fitness. I never did a fitness diet but fresh food, preferably home grown (unless meat, because most of us dont have time to breed, slaughter and process livestock) is loads better. Blueberries from my moms garden are way sweeter than ones from the supermarket. I'm glad to be starting fresh food again next week. TLDR: Stay in this era but get supermarket crap only for foodstuffs you can't reasonably make at home. Also, don't pillage the village.

I know this is an old comment but for most breads 350° F for 15 minutes is enough, keep checking after that.🥰

Æ Ø Å you mad bro?

@@guldukat6749 isn't sweedish beer called ol with the slash through the o making it pronounced orl

Swedes dont use Ø, they use Ö, but they sound the same. Only Norway and Denmark use Ø Æ Å. The Ø sounds like the 'ea' in "early", or the 'i' in "bird". So beer in norwegian=ØL, in swedish=ÖL ;)@@douggoldengolden72

@@guldukat6749 I'll drink the beer eat the cheese and bread keep the lutefisk away from me my my grandma tried to trick me with that once

Ugh. Lutefisk is horrible. Get some medisterpølser and ribbe instead.@@douggoldengolden72

I can give it a try :p