The Food of the Vikings
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- What did the Vikings eat? Some would survive just with mead, but there was a wondrous variety of foods, and recipes that are still used nowadays in Scandinavian countries.
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It's interesting to see that higher class people considered white bread to be the 'artisan' bread and the common people ate the brown and grain breads. Now we feel the other way around. If I can master that bread recipe it might make this peasant a holiday party hero. 😅
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
I want to go back to Sweden for archaeology. The weather was so beautiful and Swedish butter is the best I’ve ever had. This whole episode is just making me want some tasty Swedish butter on bread. I say that as a Texan with access to high quality homemade butter
They often say "home is where our heart is"... well, mine is on food :o
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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
@@berkleypearl2363 sounds wonderful luv,I'd like to learn to make it.
Always excellent, your videos are so well made and presented and never fail to contain interesting and often hardly well known information. You are a superb presenter, keep up the good work.
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BRILLIANT HISTORICAL PRESENTATION. My wife is Icelandic and it interests me to gain insights into her distant past.
I was in Europe for two weeks. Went to Prague, Munich and Stockholm. Learned a lot about Vikings in Stockholm. I was wondering why food in europe has lesser varieties than asia. Now I learnt from you that it is due to the cold climate and agriculture was difficult. Thanks for making this video.
Food habits have not changed much, but Glögg and pickeled Herring are always a favourite in this house during Julen. Thanks for a great Vid Arith! Greetings from Sweden! :-)
Fabulous presentation once again - thank you. I just wanted to chime in and mention APPLES since alongside honey they were viewed regards to megin and optimising the immune system with respect to Idunn's apples of eternal youth. Every scandi' Smörgåsbord is not complete without good accompanying apple sauce.
I loved it!!!! Question, what were the 8 moments of their day? Some where we can read more on the subject?
Arith, I'm so glad I found your videos. You are so knowledgeable and I enjoy your presentations very much. Thank you for all the work you put into your videos.
Oh! Thank you very much! :D I'm happy to know that. Thank you
Ah yes....A little smooth elevator jazz playing in the background as he discusses viking culinary habits, and even gives recipes at the end.
Skyr belongs to the Nords!!!
Traitorous Milk Drinker
HA! ....Psst. Hail Sithis.
Whenever I think of viking food, I imagine stuff like wild goat and fish along with stuff like bread and hardy vegetables that would be able to grow in the tougher climates
I am so glad I found this channel. I've been obsessed with Viking related archeology since I was 15 years old. My brain is happy after its consumption of this information. Thank you.
Wow, such great information! Thank you for always putting out quality videos!
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Thank you so much!!!! Bread full of husks - at least they would be regular and probably healthier.
hehe yes :P thank you for the suggestion my good friend!
That can cause IBS too
Now I know why years ago I would make Nettle soup so often though must have been a flash back, I'd have probably starved to death in a Viking village as im vegetarian.
I always learn so much from your videos.
Thank you.
Dagmal could indeed be the first meal of the day at 8:00am for farmers.
The Irish in the Middle Ages used to not take their breakfast until after having worked from 6am till 9am’ish - then they would eat their first meal of the day.
Fascinating! I absolutely appreciate your videos. Also your delivery. It inspires me to learn more! Thank you!
Great video. Very well done. And your voice and accent has an asmr quality.
Oh! ASMR? I should try lol. Thank you!
@@ArithHärger I'm binge watching your videos. Really fantastic. New subscriber from New Jersey in US.
Although this video is older ,it is one of my favorite on this channel. I am planning a video to cook up some viking food and this video has some good pointers.
Stinging Nettle soup.... Reminds me of when I was a boyscout years and years ago.
Thanks Mr Arith, another different video, and as always very interesting, you know a lot of Viking culture. Congratulations
thank you very much my dear friend hehe :D
Awesome video. Some picture or artwork of the food would be a great visual addition to this learning experience
Its funny to think of Vikings going to other countries in wine tasting tours. 😄
I’m , Norwegian -my parents are from there but, since I was a baby I can not stomach fish - it makes me gag - and it makes me sad because I would love to eat it - it’s so healthy cold water fish. I do like raw Oysters with spicy sauce-thank you, for your wonderful video ❤️
I just wanna add that I've read that flaxseeds can be poisonous if one chews them. (Same with too much apple seeds and muscat)
Interesting
That's one way to get me into cooking again.
Loved the video, just like the other ones....I look forward to a Part 2, Cooking with Arith! 😉
Jan B, Glasgow
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I have watched many of your videos in the month. I am a new fan. I have learned so much from you. Thank you for teaching. 💗
We have mulled wine here in England at yuletide, you don't see it very often these days but can still be made at home.
Excellent very informative. Tack
I live in New Orleans, I make mead from honey raised by my brother. I make mead with local ingredients, I make a cayenne pepper mead. And pawpaw mead from local farmers. Both are really good. But I understand how you feel about mead. But I put in 3-4 times the amount of honey that everyone else does. I like a nice thick mead
My name is Ray and I totally like what you're doing because I am German and I try to learn more about the Saxon heritage in your videos really in line but today I got a question we know we have sacrificed animals but I would like to know what was in that process because I know they would slit the throat let the blood drain out like what were some other things involved in that process like some herbs they would put on it and bury it whole like what was the whole process I really think you would know and I really like your input thank you you have helped brighten my Horizon
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This video is making me hungry XD
while I was researching and writing this video, I ate a lot :x
Preparing to make a first Jòl feast and this video was greatly helpful, Skål
Very very good video as all of yours! Greetings from Colombia in South America.
Great video, the honey fortresses are interesting. I bet it was easier for the beekeeper to concentrate smoke in those as well to keep the bees docile while gathering honey.
Well fancy finding you here my friend!👍👍👍 Seems we have a common interest outside our regular community interactions! Keep Breathing!
Hákarl has mostly been an icelandic thing. I doubt it was ever a staple of the scandinavian diet, 'cause the greenland shark isnt found around the north sea or norwegian sea. Its further northwest in the Atlantic. Otherwise splendid video!
They are found along the coast of Norway too. But we don't eat it.
can you perhaps do a video on Yule and cover a little bit of what they used to eat around that time of year, I've been cooking roasted goat or Lamb for the past Yules
very insightful arith. thank yew again.
I have made a potroast every year for Jul based on library research. In one book (I forgot the title unfortunately) there was a list of charred spices found in various 8-9th century nordic homes. Among them were pepper, cumin, fennel, and coriander. So that's what I decided to season it with. The only out of place ingredient is potatoes. It contains also carrots, leeks, and rutabaga (a variety of turnip which may not have existed yet, but was popular in Sweden later on). I do take some creative license with it. It had to taste good to my family. Had I been born to that generation in my family I would have been a son of a jarl. So I aimed for a jarl's meal what with the spices and roasting. I included the spices I did because I had an ancestor who lived for a time with his uncle Ketil, a prince of Kiev. And this ancestor traded in Constantinople and Baghdad.
Dude you are awesome;! Maybe you should write a book or two about Norse history and traditions. food for thought
it's kinda funny I live in kaupang (Viking city) and often when they try to build something the archaeologists come and say "would you look at that there is a whole city down here, gonna have to wait a couple years till we are done excavating"
You've made me hungry now good job I've got a pan of chicken stew on the go!
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.
LOL Amazing and entertaining. I was really surprised to not hear much about eggs. They are so easy! Did the Winter darkness effect their laying, perhaps? Or did you just not emphasize them?
And we got yogurt from the Vikings, didn't we? Or am I remembering that wrong?
All fascinating!
Thank you!
Skyr yum.
“You didn’t own such animals just to eat their babies”😂 gave me a nice little chuckle
If the farmers are eating the calf, they are milking the cow for milk, butter, and especially cheese.
In the category of alcohol, you forgot apple bier/cider.
I think you forgot the moose, the woods was probably held lots of them.
Very informative!
At Yule I shall have a feast, serving food from all the villages I raided over the summer.
Iceland went for meat pickled or preserved in Skyr whey.
Obrigado cara..gente boa. 💜From Virginia usa..
Okay now you're just making me drool! :D These sound delicious.
The jarl was only eating meat and bread. Very typical for the rich in those days, as I understand it. Vegetables were considered to be for poor people only. LOL.
I bet chestnut or chestnut flour was used, if not grown in southern Scandinavia, imported from York, Normandy and hawthorn berries were processed, dried and made into a gummy substance not unlike modern children's sweets. They are full of vit c and last for years.
"Amen soo much Respect".
Mate, I was kinda hoping that you would invite mister Thorstein for this one. You know, his appetite for food and some quality booze is unparalleled. Where is he? I don't see him very often lately. Did you send him on some GOD FARSAKEN raid in Scotland again? Tell us! Tell us now!! :D
P.S. Jokes aside, very good presentation by the way.
Still I need to hear a word from the old Viking. I can't know for certain if he will approve your recepy recommendations at the end. Especially the vegan one! ;) Наздраве!
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. :)
really interesting and informative video! I subscribed "med en gang"! Thank you!
I really enjoyed this video. 🤓
Great to know that ^^
Would you rather continue living in this modern era, or live during the viking era??
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.
Just finished brewing a batch of mead, will be bottling this weekend :)
4:58, you forgot to mention Surstromming the rotten fish in a can (I've tasted it) and it's really smelly and putrid. Also I really like skyr. It's very good although I would like to add fruit to it.
Does anyone know there is a National Viking Restoration tourist attraction in a place called L’anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland ? The Vikings settled in this one area for a while , ...artifacts, tools were discovered /uncovered.
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
In reference to the archeological evidence of brewing. Is there any evidence of barley that's been roasted dark enough to make a beer like a stout or porter?
Try Dansk Mjod. It is the best I have found thus far. Great content as always. Thank you.
Hi Arith- I've often heard it said that vikings used bog myrtle (Myrica gale) to flavour beer and meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) to flavour mead but i can't find any evidence or source for this so I was wondering if you know anything about this or if you are familiar with any archaeology which backs this up?
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.
Do you have any links or further information for the "stone towers" that may have been for beekeeping? Specifically the Scandinavian ones? I haven't been able to find anything specifically about those.
Also, it seems that you are saying that the cooking pits were located in the Longhouse. From everything I have seen, there is no evidence that these were inside longhouses. The pits in Borg at Lofoten predate the structure.
What amazes me the most is how the Vikings survived without Tacos and Salsa.
I love your videos, your voice is so soothing! And this is really informative. But where have your adorable little puppets gone? Are they ever returning?
our slavic grandmothers were also using fruit of the yew tree as sweetener; just the red part, without the stone/core... it's sweet and as the only part of the yew tree not poisonous
are you sure the "vikings" didn't have this sweetener too?
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12:52 and cheese from the veal rennet?
Good job thank you.
I'm going to look into salt...where it came from.👍
my family members are vikings
My Grandmas (best in the world) fruitcake. ❤️ Hi Arith. 🤗
What about rodents? To eat. Also was any cannabis use discovered?
You remind me of my family, am sure we share a familial ancestry 😀😀
Greetings from danmark
That's nothing I drop shits way bigger than that daily!
Have you done a video on that poop? If not I think you should, I find that stuff pretty fascinating
I can give it a try :p
Nettle soup❤
How long do you cook the bread? What temp? Need more details! :)
I know this is an old comment but for most breads 350° F for 15 minutes is enough, keep checking after that.🥰
huzzah! food!
It is interesting to see what ancient warriors ate.
Everything sounds much more healthier
Great video.
What are your sources?
I LOVE Siggi's Skyr! ❤
I'm usually the only one that goes near any type of yogurt items, including kefir.
This SKYR is the best thing ever. 20 grams protein, ZERO fat, tastes like HEAVEN.
WHY search elsewhere?
Ol I wish I had on my key board that put the diagonal slash through the o
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
The thing that really offends my whole family is Viking stereotypes
Actually, the aboriginal Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Proto-Europeans) of I1 Y-haplotype paternal descent (Gravettian mammoth hunters), moved into Scandinavia from Siberia long before the entry of "Iberians" into Western Europe.
Top-notch recipes at the end--- don't leave early. White glogg rules.
Do you know the Danish equivalent to ashweed? You mention it in a recipe amongst other herbs and ashweed is the only one I don't know and can't translate.
In general, the Vikings were very large humans, so that explains the big poop.
Did they eat breakfast?
What fiskeballs med pomfrit
Sublime!
Skal to all of my fellow northmen / women
I don't know if you ever ate bear it's so greasy like if you cooked ground beef through the beef away and just ate the grease that's what bear would taste like