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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/
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
Mjølner matured cheese from Asgaard range
Mjølner. ‘Extra extra matured’ cheese. You can throw it away, but it’ll come back. From the Asgaard cheese range ‘exclusive to Aldi’. On sale in Denmark (and presumably other countries).
Mjød Sennep (Mead Mustard)
Mustard product produced by Dansk Mjød, with Viking branding.
Mixed cooking waste on display in Museet Ribes Vikinger
Shellfish, bird and fish bones representing Viking-Age food waste from Ribe. Details about the exhibition can be found at http://www.ribesvikinger.dk/en/
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.
Logo of Dansk Mjød with Viking Ship
Dansk Mjød is a brewer in Billund, Denmark that produces mead and mead-based products including beer, mustard and bitters. Their logo is a Viking ship. Photographed in Copenhagen airport.
Logo of Au p'tit Viking Food Truck in Saint-Ébremond-de-Bonfossé
This food truck, sent to us by TSP @morangles, is named Au p'tit Viking, and draws on the Viking heritage of Normandy in its branding, which includes a horned helmet.
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.
Laks på vikingvis med flatbrød og skagenrøre
A recipe for Viking-style salmon.
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.
Idun cheese from Aldi's Asgaard cheese range
Idun. ‘Mild and soft.’ From the Asgaard cheese range ‘exclusive to Aldi’. On sale in Denmark (and presumably other countries).
Icelandic Viking Salt Product by Íslensk hollusta
The company website for Íslensk hollusta refers to the fact that Icelanders used Black Salt until the 15th Century, produced from burning seaweed. It is marketed as Viking Salt to tourists.
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…
Höfðingi Cheese with Viking Branding
Cheese from Iceland and produced by Dala, which is named Höfðingi ('chieftain'), and features both a Viking and runes of the older futhark.
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…
Freja cheese from Asgaard cheese range, Aldi
Freja. From the Asgaard cheese range ‘exclusive to Aldi’. On sale in Denmark (and presumably other countries).
Dansk Mjød Logo
Dansk Mjød is a brewer in Billund, Denmark that produces mead and mead-based products including beer, mustard and bitters.
Cattle
An image of Auðumla the legendary cow that licked Odin's grandfather Buri from the ice and from whose udders milk flowed in streams. This milk nourished the giant Ymir, the first creature to be created in Norse mythology.
Blue Viking Pizza
A Romanian pizza restaurant using a Viking logo to promote itself.