Posted on 04/13/2006 7:34:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Dr James Barrett, of the University of York's Department of Archaeology, who is co-ordinating the project, has pinpointed the century between 950AD and 1050AD as the critical period when this fisheries revolution took place. By studying fish bones from archaeological sites such as York, Gent in Belgium, Ribe in Denmark, Schleswig in Germany and Gdansk in Poland, the researchers hope to establish what long-term impact this rapid switch to intensive sea fisheries had on medieval trading patterns... Dried cod was traded from the Arctic in the Middle Ages and, around 1000AD, trade routes opened up across the Viking world to allow long-range trading of bulk staple goods.
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There's a joke hiding about lutefisk in here somewhere...my mind is being perverse today...
The joke is on the face of the people facing a plate of lutefisk for the first time.
So9
Gelee of cod with butter sauce? My hubby, if faced with it, would probably reach for the tabasco.
I think the Vikings popularized that, by visking the loot out the door...
A-viking we will go,
A-viking we will go,
With sword and shield and ship and cod
A-viking we will go...
You married a Cajun?
So9
Naw. He's 1/4 Japanese, 1/4 Slovak and 1/2 early American hybrid raised as an army brat.
He puts soy sauce and butter on his rice (yuck). But he likes hot sauce.
You should tell him to try putting Tabasco and butter on his rice - yummy!
That's they way you should eat rice. Either with Tabasco and butter, or fresh ground black pepper and butter. Or all three. But not soy sauce and butter...soy sauce or butter...not both!
[falsetto] Bloody Vikings!
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