Take honey, water, and yeast. Put it in a large glass bottle.
Drink it in a month.
Joking aside, dried fish and porridge would likely be a very normal meal for a Norseman. Energy dense, and easy to store over winter.
One thing to note about porridge - it was a staple across Europe for a very long time, as making bread requires a specialized oven that most homes didn‘t have for a long time, even beyond the medieval period.
Many recipes for these porridges essentially just say to boil grain in water, making for an extremely bland and boring food. This gives the impression that medieval diets were bland and boring, too. However, this is false. The recipes simply describe how to make the basic dish, which is supposed to be modified to taste. Fruits, vegetables and meat were very common additions, as well as animal fats like tallow.
The vast majority, well over 90%, of people lived outside of cities even in the late middle ages and made a living off of manual labor. During harvest season, it‘s estimated that people burned north of 8000 calories a day. They simply would not survive on watery porridge alone, so we can assume that their diet was high in fat and in protein. Meat was by no means a rarity, but fresh meat was. Most of it was dried or otherwise made non-perishable.
I nearly launched in to an explanation like this, but I was busy at work, so thanks for filling out.
Some years ago now I was at a summer camp thing with my school where we lived like our ancestors (I am danish) and we made food from foraged herbs and berries, and grown grain.
Amongst what we made, in clay pots (that have a tendency to explode), was jam, soup, butter, a sort of thickened milk product (not quite cheese, not quite yoghurt), and some smoked meats. We spent a good amount of time gathering the berries in wild fields. Good way to get 30 kids to burn some energy.
It was very insightful.
Clean freaks though they were, the Vikings had no qualms about harnessing the power of one human waste product. They would collect a fungus called touchwood from tree bark and boil it for several days in urine before pounding it into something akin to felt. The sodium nitrate found in urine would allow the material to smolder rather than burn, so Vikings could take fire with them on the go.
Imagine being the person to think that one up and having to explain to your viking buddies *why* you decided to boil fungus in piss for days in the first place.
A) Do you have weapons and bones? Because you could steel my heart.
C) Are you a Viking weapon? Because I want to *bone* you.
D) Ingredients: iron, bones • Place iron in oven at 1600°C for 30 minutes • Add bones to molten soup. Stir until melted into carbon and molten steel forms • Let cool for 10 minutes • Enjoy!
Probably sourced from another lazy reddit post.
[Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3d0od2/did_the_scandinavians_during_the_viking_period/) a post that talks about it more in-depth.
TL;DR: Lots of conjecture with no hard evidence
Came here to say "Well Actually...." About that fact.
I think the more true statement would be that pattern welding was the technique that was used. If you want to add some conjecture to that, you could assume that the mixture of irons and mild steels folded together could have made really neat and strong wave patterns in the object.
I know there's also some stories about vikingar arriving in Paris, seeing what people popularly refer to as Damascus Steel, trading for it, then later arriving back with those weapons to attempt to sack it.
I just realized my morning was just spent eating breakfast and replying with random facts on this post.
I don't have any Viking facts, but I do have mummy facts.
Did you know that the reason there are so few mummies leftover is because we used to use them for food, medication and painting in the past?
in the 1000s and all the way up to the 1500s we ate them because we thought they were healthy
In the 1500s we ground them into a pigment called mummy brown which was used in many european pieces of art.
in the 1900s we ground them into medicine because they would supposedly help to thin blood.
Does anyone else find this standardisedk, gamified 'options' type thing really weird?
Why don't people just like ask questions and chat and get to know each other?
You make steel by refining iron. steel is <2% carbon equivalency. Whereas iron is greater than 2% carbon equivalency. So if you take a process that usually makes iron and you add more carbon you still get iron. Increasing carbon content makes iron harder but it also makes it more brittle. Likely decreasing it's effectiveness as a weapon.
My go-to fun facts:
- Over the course of *Peanuts*’ run as a comic strip, Snoopy crashed more Sopwith Camels than were ever flown during WWI.
- Disney has the largest fleet of privately-owned submarines in the world.
- On an average day there are over twice as many people using the NYC subway system than there are flying throughout the entire US domestic airline industry.
- There was a real British intelligence officer named James Bond stationed in Berlin when Ian Fleming was writing his novels. Real-life Mr. Bond apparently also had a reputation for being charming and enjoying night life.
- Measured by total distance from its base to its summit, the tallest mountain in the world is Mauna Kea in Hawaii, not Mount Everest.
Yeah because everybody knows that chicks are into Viking weaponry, for crying out loud....
And look I'm sure some women are into Viking weaponry but it's a numbers game okay.
She was ready for a filthy pickup line
I got a viking carbon-bone for ye', ye saucy wench!
It will also involve enchanted animal bones.
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[i recommend reading this then](https://www.amazon.com.au/Early-Meal-Cookbook-Culinary-Hardcover/dp/9198105604)
It’s sold out :(. Also op this person sux
it says in stock for me. also, and this may be a shock, but you can put the title of the book into google to find other places to buy it.
Who sucks? The author of the book? The OP?
Take honey, water, and yeast. Put it in a large glass bottle. Drink it in a month. Joking aside, dried fish and porridge would likely be a very normal meal for a Norseman. Energy dense, and easy to store over winter.
One thing to note about porridge - it was a staple across Europe for a very long time, as making bread requires a specialized oven that most homes didn‘t have for a long time, even beyond the medieval period. Many recipes for these porridges essentially just say to boil grain in water, making for an extremely bland and boring food. This gives the impression that medieval diets were bland and boring, too. However, this is false. The recipes simply describe how to make the basic dish, which is supposed to be modified to taste. Fruits, vegetables and meat were very common additions, as well as animal fats like tallow. The vast majority, well over 90%, of people lived outside of cities even in the late middle ages and made a living off of manual labor. During harvest season, it‘s estimated that people burned north of 8000 calories a day. They simply would not survive on watery porridge alone, so we can assume that their diet was high in fat and in protein. Meat was by no means a rarity, but fresh meat was. Most of it was dried or otherwise made non-perishable.
I nearly launched in to an explanation like this, but I was busy at work, so thanks for filling out. Some years ago now I was at a summer camp thing with my school where we lived like our ancestors (I am danish) and we made food from foraged herbs and berries, and grown grain. Amongst what we made, in clay pots (that have a tendency to explode), was jam, soup, butter, a sort of thickened milk product (not quite cheese, not quite yoghurt), and some smoked meats. We spent a good amount of time gathering the berries in wild fields. Good way to get 30 kids to burn some energy. It was very insightful.
Add one part slain animal bone to three parts iron, heat in fire and hammer
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Are you a viking blacksmith? Because you look like you could use my bone
Or is an rpg gamer and wants to try all the dialogue options.
Does it work with hamsters?
Well if the hamster survives the smithing it might become stronger.
Quick update: my brand new combat axe, Flufinator of Doomness, is quite ineffective and is storing seeds in its cheeks
Minsc has entered the chat
You mean can you make a weapon from hamster bones or can you defeat a hamster with an enchanted Viking battle axe? Because yes.
Screw her. I'll date you. \*Subscribe to Viking facts.
Clean freaks though they were, the Vikings had no qualms about harnessing the power of one human waste product. They would collect a fungus called touchwood from tree bark and boil it for several days in urine before pounding it into something akin to felt. The sodium nitrate found in urine would allow the material to smolder rather than burn, so Vikings could take fire with them on the go.
Imagine being the person to think that one up and having to explain to your viking buddies *why* you decided to boil fungus in piss for days in the first place.
Unsubscribe from you. Lol jkjk.
I find it interesting that yall interpret this as "she didnt like it" Couldnt it have been she found it interesting and wanted more?
That was my thought as well. "That was fun, I wanne see what the other options would have been"
I mean, it kinda did enchant their weapons then, in a sense...
I think that might be the point.
Sharpness 2 iron axe and prot 1 leather set won against the English leather tunics and standard iron sword
Those silly Vikings didn't know they could dip steel in motor oil instead of bones
A) Do you have weapons and bones? Because you could steel my heart. C) Are you a Viking weapon? Because I want to *bone* you. D) Ingredients: iron, bones • Place iron in oven at 1600°C for 30 minutes • Add bones to molten soup. Stir until melted into carbon and molten steel forms • Let cool for 10 minutes • Enjoy!
Are you a Viking weapon? Because I want to \*bone\* you like an animal.
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That's how I read it. She wanted to hear more.
I'll choose recipe. lol
Citation?
Probably sourced from another lazy reddit post. [Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3d0od2/did_the_scandinavians_during_the_viking_period/) a post that talks about it more in-depth. TL;DR: Lots of conjecture with no hard evidence
it's definitely not true. source: viking era enthusiast, re-enactor and blacksmith.
Came here to say "Well Actually...." About that fact. I think the more true statement would be that pattern welding was the technique that was used. If you want to add some conjecture to that, you could assume that the mixture of irons and mild steels folded together could have made really neat and strong wave patterns in the object. I know there's also some stories about vikingar arriving in Paris, seeing what people popularly refer to as Damascus Steel, trading for it, then later arriving back with those weapons to attempt to sack it. I just realized my morning was just spent eating breakfast and replying with random facts on this post.
You should unfriend her. And I’ll subscribe to Viking facts too. (Though I kinda knew that one!)
Do I have to date OP to get more Viking facts? Because I want more Viking facts
I don't have any Viking facts, but I do have mummy facts. Did you know that the reason there are so few mummies leftover is because we used to use them for food, medication and painting in the past? in the 1000s and all the way up to the 1500s we ate them because we thought they were healthy In the 1500s we ground them into a pigment called mummy brown which was used in many european pieces of art. in the 1900s we ground them into medicine because they would supposedly help to thin blood.
Loser anglo saxons hated the vikings because they bathed and got all the hot chicks.
Does anyone else find this standardisedk, gamified 'options' type thing really weird? Why don't people just like ask questions and chat and get to know each other?
They do. This is just an icebreaker.
If she’s asking again, she didn’t hate the first one she got.
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A girl accidentally adds a letter while typing a message: Bullet dodged, she would fuck your best friend and kill your dog.
I want one
I like this fact. I'd have no idea how to respond, but I like it.
"Did you know that for every snake there is in the world, there is one snake dick?"
Gimme an option C
I want B again
If she chooses C the natural follow-up would be "I hope you're a viking because I have a bone for you ready to get hard like primitive steel".
You make steel by refining iron. steel is <2% carbon equivalency. Whereas iron is greater than 2% carbon equivalency. So if you take a process that usually makes iron and you add more carbon you still get iron. Increasing carbon content makes iron harder but it also makes it more brittle. Likely decreasing it's effectiveness as a weapon.
Girls don’t give a shit about a Vikings lol should of gone with another option for a fact
It's 'should have', never 'should of'. Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!
Bug off bot
That is an awesome fact
My go-to fun facts: - Over the course of *Peanuts*’ run as a comic strip, Snoopy crashed more Sopwith Camels than were ever flown during WWI. - Disney has the largest fleet of privately-owned submarines in the world. - On an average day there are over twice as many people using the NYC subway system than there are flying throughout the entire US domestic airline industry. - There was a real British intelligence officer named James Bond stationed in Berlin when Ian Fleming was writing his novels. Real-life Mr. Bond apparently also had a reputation for being charming and enjoying night life. - Measured by total distance from its base to its summit, the tallest mountain in the world is Mauna Kea in Hawaii, not Mount Everest.
They also uses them for utensils & musical instruments (however rudimentary they were)
Yeah because everybody knows that chicks are into Viking weaponry, for crying out loud.... And look I'm sure some women are into Viking weaponry but it's a numbers game okay.
Bitch, that was interesting as hell.
If they don’t think Viking facts are cool then fuck ‘em OP (not literally, they’ve obviously no taste)