what did people in iceland eat before the advent of modern refrigeration and global trade? when i look around the country on google earth i see no crops growing and no farmlands. did they just rely on fishing and importing grain from the UK/Scandinavia?
>>222115055You can survive without grains.
>>222115640So it was probably some milk products, mutton, fish. Maybe some seaweed too.
When they needed to freeze something, they just popped it in the local glacier, when defrosting, into the local volcano. They didn't need your jewish technology.
>>222115055Obviously, the two main sources of food were animal husbandry and fishing. For preservation, meat, fish and dairy were fermented. Foraging also played a role. Grain was less of a staple, much of it was imported and hence expensive.All the same applies to medieval Greenland but the climate there was rougher and resources were fewer, that's why the Norse colonies were abandoned once the Little Ice Age kicked in.
