No chance. This is bull. For almost the entire year there was nothing but meat and fish to eat. Stored veggies were sparse. They could store salted fish and meats. And they could live on dairy as well.
This was the world before potatoes and winter wheat and rice.
When were oats, barley, rye and millet introduced?
“No chance. This is bull. For almost the entire year there was nothing but meat and fish to eat. Stored veggies were sparse. They could store salted fish and meats. And they could live on dairy as well.”
Yes. They would have had ale (good way to “store” grain”) and mead. Their drinks had lots of stuff added to them so they were something like modern protein drinks. Ergot (a fungus) also infested a lot of their grain. One affect among many is hallucinations. I often think this is why we hear much about “visions” in history. Those that converted their grain to alcohol (monks) avoided that problem somewhat
Yup