Dine Like A Viking: The Viking’s Diet Revealed
Vikings may be thought of as the fierce warriors of legend, but they were also surprisingly savvy when it came to the foods that they ate, and it turns out that the Viking diet is much more varied than had previously been thought. This means that Sigurd of the Volsunga Saga, or Siegfried from Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung, may not have necessarily devoured the first bit of meat that came their way, but could just as easily have eaten a delicate bowl of yogurt with cloudberries instead.
Diana Bertelsen, who helped to create recipes for the Ribe Viking Center in Denmark, explained in National Geographic that thanks to archaeological excavations we now know what kind of foods the Vikings favored and what the Viking diet would have been like.
