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Meat chips produced by Russian (Moscow-based) company Дымов, which feature a red-haired Viking with horned helmet, a runic inscription and interlace artwork as a background.

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Viking-Age wooden platter. Parish Unknown. Donated by Lerwick Town Council. AGR 65420

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A wafer biscuit inexplicably given the Viking brand.

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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!

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This variety of ham is branded 'vikingskinke' in Norway. It is not clear why.

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The connection between Vikings and pizza is unclear, but there are pizza restaurants like this one that are named for the Vikings.

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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.

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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.

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A coffee shop that will also offer cabins to stay in.

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Viking Cafe in Ayrshire, Scotland shows little actual connection to Vikings, but is branded with a Viking motif.

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Virgin butter from Buttervikings on the Isle of Wight

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Thor. Mature. From the Asgaard cheese range ‘exclusive to Aldi’. On sale in Denmark (and presumably other countries).

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Thor og Balder grovstykker. Wholegrain bread rolls on sale in 7-Eleven shops in Denmark. Grovstykker: Literally: ‘coarse pieces’.

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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…

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This Viking salt is a smoked salt produced in Egersund, Norway for the French brand Terre Exotique.

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A chain of pizzerias that uses the Viking image for its logo and name.

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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…

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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.

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Odin's Table is a Scandinavian-themed cafe, bakery and shop.

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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.
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