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Viking life

Food and feasting
Weddings, funerals and religious festivals were celebrated with a big feast for many guests. Some feasts lasted over a week!
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Food was served in wooden bowls and dishes. Food was eaten with spoons, knives and fingers. Beer, wine or mead were drunk from horns or wooden cups. Favourite meats were beef, goose, pork, lamb, goat and chicken.




Sports competitions like wrestling, athletics, fencing or archery were sometimes held at feasts.
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