Vikings: Surviving Winter
Gone Medieval
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The Scarcity of Food in Iceland
In iceland, winter is a very harsh season. You get a lot of shortages of food. The main food source becomes live stock, cattle, sheep and horses. In the sagas especially, we have stories that take place during winters where, you know, people are sitting there and thinking, o god, were running low on food.
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