![]() ![]() It was the end of the run and a way of sorting the injured,” she says. “The smell meant there was a hole in the intestines. If the wound smelled oniony, that was a sign that the person couldn’t be saved. “They made onion soup and fed it to individuals who had been stabbed in the stomach with a sword,” says Kool. Onions were actually used for diagnosing illness. Garlic seeds from the Viking period have been found in York, England, and may well have also been cultivated in Norway. The research is presented in an article from Linköping University. Research from Sweden suggests that it was also common to share and exchange yellow onions, perhaps even in the Viking era, says Kool. The leaves on the giant garlic have a strong taste of onions and garlic. People probably ate the leaves and not the bulb. There are really large amounts of it there,” she says. The same goes for the victory onion, which grows in Lofoten all around an old Viking settlement. “One hypothesis is that wild onions were used in the Viking Age and that is why they have become so common. "In some coastal areas you can find sand leek ( Allium scorodoprasum) in huge quantities," says Kool. Several rune inscriptions include the words "beer, flax and onions." The Vikings also had access to various allium species. She asked him instead to go pick up her dowry, and that turned into Olav's demise. She thought it was a pitiful gift, and besides, there was no angelica in Denmark where she came from. Olav Tryggvason's story relates that he brought a stalk of angelica to his queen, Tyra. The law states, "If one man goes in another man's onion garden or angelica garden, then he is lawless." This indicates that it was common to grow angelica and onions on farms.Īngelica also appears in the sagas. The Frostathing Law, one of Norway’s oldest laws, was compiled and written down between 10 CE. Kool notes that the flavour is better before the plant blooms. The stalk is reminiscent of soap and celery. But all indications show that it was an important vegetable in the Viking Age.īoth the leaves and the stalk were used, and perhaps also the roots. The researchers have run a test analysis of this plant using the model.Īngelica is a vigorous plant that may be easy to dismiss as an unattractive mountain plant. Kool points out one of the plants that researchers have already learned a lot about: Norwegian angelica ( Angelica archangelica), also known as wild celery. ![]() Here she points out a plant that people ate in Viking times, called Norwegian (or garden) angelica. All these foods came much later.Īnneleen Kool is working on a project called "humans and plants." Researchers are exploring how plants have been used all the way back to the Viking Age. You won’t find potatoes, cucumbers, carrots or tomatoes here. It contains plants that scientists believe were used during the period. The Viking garden is part of the University Botanical Garden in Oslo’s Tøyen neighbourhood. But instead of using DNA, we’re using our knowledge about plants, with language as a tool,” says the botanist. We’re applying the knowledge we gain to the same kind of models that are used to look at the evolution of animals and plants. “We’re looking at whether plants can be traced back to certain places. The sources extend from the Viking Age to the present day. Few written sources from the Viking Age exist, but information may lie hidden in ancient traditions, archaeological finds, or place names. Their goal is to learn how plants were used over a thousand years ago. Kool and her colleagues are now undertaking a major project. “In the scientific tradition, it’s been more common to study the relationship between animals and humans than the relationship with plants,” Kool says.
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