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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…
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…
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.
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…
"Viking" Chicken Nuggets and "Viking" Salami
I found these two at Aldi Süd supermarket, Germany. They are chicken nuggets and salami aimed at children advertised with the German children's series "Wickie", an animated series about a clever Viking boy and his adventures.
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
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.
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.
Дымов Russian Meat Chips with Viking Branding
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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).
Freja cheese from Asgaard cheese range, Aldi
Freja. From the Asgaard cheese range ‘exclusive to Aldi’. On sale in Denmark (and presumably other countries).
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).
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).