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Viking Butter
Virgin butter from Buttervikings on the Isle of Wight
News: In Japan Vikings Are All-You-Can-Eat Buffets
A blog post about the origin of the naming of buffets (or Smörgåsbords) in Japan 'Vikings', from TOFUGU LLC
La Drakkar Camembert
La Drakkar Camembert from La Laiterie de Gratot in Manche, Normandy. The branding draws on the Norse heritage of Normandy and includes a stylised Viking drakkar (or warship). It is one of several Normandy cheeses to draw on Viking heritage.
Liebig Company Advert for Meat Extract using Freya
Liebig Company used a series of images of Old Norse gods and heroes to advertise their meat products in the late nineteenth century, some influenced by Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen'. The company was headquartered in London.
Odin's Table Restaurant
Odin's Table is a Scandinavian-themed cafe, bakery and shop.
Pigs
The goddess Freyja rode a wild boar called Hildisvíni and the god Freyr owned one called Gullinbursti. This is a nineteenth-century imaginative recreation of what Freyja might have looked like riding her boar.
Pigs were a source of meat in the…
Pigs were a source of meat in the…
Pizzeria Viking
A chain of pizzerias that uses the Viking image for its logo and name.
A table laden with Viking food at Stamford Bridge
A table at Stamford bridge with food and vessels laid out to show the types of food available to Vikings
Vikingskinke (Viking Ham) seen in a hotel in Oslo
This variety of ham is branded 'vikingskinke' in Norway. It is not clear why.
Viking Camembert Cheese
A camembert cheese from Roger Lanquetot et Fils in Vern-sur-Seiche, Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany, which uses imagery based on the Bayeux Tapestry including a Norman ship in the branding of its Viking cheese.
Wooden Platter on display in Shetland Museum and Archives
Viking-Age wooden platter. Parish Unknown. Donated by Lerwick Town Council. AGR 65420
Melting Pot: Food and identity in the Age of Vikings
The website for the Melting Pot project which proposes to use cutting-edge techniques to study how food and cooking were used to forge social relationships in Viking-Age Britain.
Sel Viking (Viking Salt) from Terre Exotique
This Viking salt is a smoked salt produced in Egersund, Norway for the French brand Terre Exotique.
Orkney Smoked Cheddar with Viking Branding
Orkney Smoked Cheddar from the Island Smokery in Stromness, Orkney. It includes the tagline ''The Way the Vikings Like It' and a cartoon image of a Viking, with an axe and horned helmet.
Icelandic Horse
The Icelandic horse is a breed of horse from Iceland that developed from horses taken to Iceland by the original Viking settlers. It is small, often pony-sized, but very hardy.
Pagan Scandinavians ate horse meat as part of their religious…
Pagan Scandinavians ate horse meat as part of their religious…
Gamalost fra Vik (old cheese from Vik)
Gamalost (lit. 'old cheese') is a traditional cheese from Norway, made with skimmed cow's milk. It has a long pedigree, and this product claims it goes back to the Vikings. It uses interlace artwork on the packaging to reinforce this fact. Tine SA is…
Viking Cafe
Viking Cafe in Ayrshire, Scotland shows little actual connection to Vikings, but is branded with a Viking motif.
Viking Cafe and Cabins
A coffee shop that will also offer cabins to stay in.
Vikings Pizza, York
The connection between Vikings and pizza is unclear, but there are pizza restaurants like this one that are named for the Vikings.
Wikinger Knacker product with Viking ship logo
A brand of sausage from Wikinger, which uses a Viking ship as its logo. This photo was submitted from Germany, but the brand also has a British market of hotdogs. The connection to the Vikings is not clear!