Viking food

[Catlady (Rita Prince]

Pengolodh wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/40442>:

<< Lofotr Vikingmuseum has employed the Swedish archaeologist Daniel Serra to experiment with Viking Age food. (snip) * cold-smoking both untreated and salted meats using just the smoke present from keeping the room's fireplace lit * cold-smoking us poor guides - this is a default extension of the previous point (the sacrifices we make for science...) >>

That is why people spent as much time as possible OUTSIDE their houses.

My friend says Icelanders made bread with birch bark ground up in it, which was so bitter that contemporary accounts say that no one who hadn't been raised with it could stand to eat it.