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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
Nuts and grains on display in Museet Ribes Vikinger
Hazelnuts, barley and wheat grains from excavations at Ribe. Details about the exhibition can be found at http://www.ribesvikinger.dk/en/
Odin sliced cheese and Baldr sliced cheese from Asgaard range
Odin and Baldr. The best thing since sliced cheese. From the Asgaard cheese range ‘exclusive to Aldi’. On sale in Denmark (and presumably other countries). July 2016.
Odin's Table Restaurant
Odin's Table is a Scandinavian-themed cafe, bakery and shop.
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.
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.
Sel Viking (Viking Salt) from Terre Exotique
This Viking salt is a smoked salt produced in Egersund, Norway for the French brand Terre Exotique.
Sheep
Sheep were an important source of milk, meat and wool. The cloth made from wool was even a form of currency in Iceland during the Viking Age. Wool was gathered by plucking the sheep or by collecting it after it had been shed naturally. They did not…
Thor and Balder bread rolls
Thor og Balder grovstykker. Wholegrain bread rolls on sale in 7-Eleven shops in Denmark. Grovstykker: Literally: ‘coarse pieces’.
Thor matured cheese from Aldi's Asgaard cheese range
Thor. Mature. From the Asgaard cheese range ‘exclusive to Aldi’. On sale in Denmark (and presumably other countries).
Viking Butter
Virgin butter from Buttervikings on the Isle of Wight
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.
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.
Viking Danablu Cheese
Danish Blue Cheese (danablu) produced for an international market by The Dairy Viking. Producer unknown. Please contact us if you have information about this image.
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.
Vikingskinke (Viking Ham) seen in a hotel in Oslo
This variety of ham is branded 'vikingskinke' in Norway. It is not clear why.
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!
Wikinger Waffeln (Viking Waffles) from Germany
A wafer biscuit inexplicably given the Viking brand.