Viking food (original) (raw)
Presenter James MacKenzie is shown the types of food that the Vikings ate, how it was prepared and cooked.
Discover the Vikings' diet and cooking implements from archaeological discoveries in Viking huts and refuse.
Vikings ate fruit and vegetables and kept animals for meat, milk, cheese and eggs.
They had plenty of fish as they lived near the sea. Bread was made using quern stones, stone tools for hand grinding grain.
This clip is from the BBC series, 'See You See Me'.
Teacher Notes
- Pupils could compare Viking foods with modern day foods, considering how foods could only be grown locally or kept fresh for short periods of time.
- They can research and compare a Saxon and Viking farm and consider how cooking techniques used by the Saxons and Vikings are still used today.
Curriculum Notes
This short film is relevant for teaching History at KS2 in England and Wales, KS2 in Northern Ireland and second level in Scotland.
More video clips on The life of the Vikings:
Discover which gods the Vikings worshipped and why. Find out about their powers, what the Vikings believed and why these beliefs were so important to how they lived, and died, in Viking society.
An archaeologist explains to children visiting a museum why the discovery of a Viking grave is important.
A description of the sort of clothes the Vikings wore, which were handmade out of materials available at the time.
