How Vikings Stored Their Bread And Why It Worked - Chowhound
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Like the Ancient Egyptians who supplied their revered dead with sustenance for the afterlife, it appears that "holey" Viking bread may have served a similar purpose. Samples of Viking bread found at an archaeological site in Birka, Sweden, are thought to have been baked in the funeral pyres of ancient Vikings. For comparison, in Viking homes, simple flatbreads pierced through the center with wooden dowels hung…
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