What did the Vikings eat?

By studying dig sites, sagas, and ancient cookbooks, culinary archaeologist Daniel Serra is recreating long-lost dishes the Vikings ate – and rewriting the popular view of these people in the process. He believes that studying what the Vikings ate provides a better understanding of their technical skills and ideologies, as well as how people in that era socialised.

Video by Maddy Savage & Benoît Derrier

10 August 2023