What is it about?
The article looks at the way that cooking and food are discussed in a variety of sagas and medieval legal texts. What can the ways that cooking, foods, cooking equipment and eating are presented in these sources tells us about medieval Iceland, or even about the Viking Age itself?
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Why is it important?
While we know what was eaten in the last, we know very little about *how* foods were prepared or consumed, and what social attitudes and prejudices were tied up in the performance of cooking and eating.
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This article was a literature-focused spin-off from my Melting Pot project, which focused on understanding cooking in Viking England, through scientific analysis of pottery. Accepted manuscript is now available on open access here: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/174541/
Dr Steven P Ashby
University of York
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This page is a summary of: Of Pots and Porridge: Food, Cooking, and Serving in Old Norse Sources, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, January 2021, Brepols Publishers NV,
DOI: 10.1484/j.vms.5.126488.
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