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Category Archives: mead

How to Eat Like a Viking: The Magic of Mead by Gina Conkle

  What comes to mind when someone says Viking? Ham-fisted warriors raising a horn of mead in one hand and a leg bone of fowl in the other? Today's post refines that view with a peek…
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July 10, 2016
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archaeology, Dark Ages, How to Eat Like a Viking Summer Blog series, mead, Viking food history
How to Eat Like a Viking summer blog series, Mead, Viking food

Once Upon A Dark Time… Entangled’s Trick or Treat Blog Hop

If Grimm's Fairy Tales gives you the shivers, try this scary Viking story. (Like to share? Click to tweet)   Once Upon a Dark Time…   There lived a Rus king, wealthy and powerful, a man blessed with daughters…
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October 08, 2013
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dwarves, Fire, giants, Gold ring, Iceland, mead, poison, rope, rune stones, Rus, scary tale, Viking, volcano, warrior

How Did We Get Mead? And other Viking oddities…Part 3, Viking Beginnings

...Or Mead came from WHAT?  (click to tweet) Mead's origins falls squarely between "ick and "odd."  The honeyed wine began with Odin and a battle, of course.  Isn't it ironic that the beverage that makes men…
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July 25, 2013
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Aesir, Asgard, dwarves, giants, mead, Norse, Norse mythology, Odin, poetry, Vanir, Viking Origins

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