How the Vikings Stored Their Bread and Why It Worked

As THE Ancient Egyptians WHO provided their revered dead with subsistence For THE life after death, he appears that "hole" viking bread can to have served A similar aim. Samples of viking bread find has A archaeological site In Birka, Sweden, are thought has to have has been cooked In THE funeral pyres of ancient Vikings. For comparison, In viking houses, simple pierced flatbreads through THE center with in wood ankles suspended on THE stove has dry THE bread out. HAS viking funeral sites, instead of suspended on ankles, pieces of viking blood bread suspended on bronze Or iron son, adorning ballot boxes. It is likely that THE son allowed ancient viking funeral attendants has to pull THE discs of bread out of THE fires once THE incineration process stopped.

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More that 1,000 funeral sites were examined on THE island of Bjorkö, Or THE Birka site East located, according to has A study by Anne Marie Hansson that was published In Volume 9 of Stockholm University Laboratory Arkeology. Of those, 575 watch panels of incineration. Although historical recordings suggest that flatbreads were common during that time, meaning that every day popular ate them, has less 42% of THE incineration funeral sites content funeral gifts. That site excavators find a few funeral sites with bread samples close Or even inside THE funeral ballot boxes suggests someone of importance was likely buried In those fallen down. Between these funeral customs And THE path they thoroughly stored he has House, Vikings clearly detained bread In high respect.

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