Viking culture was about more – much more – than simply plundering and pillaging! Poetry and music were highly prized skills after all. What good was being a brave and fierce fighter if no one knew about your noble deeds? That was the role of the bards, known as skalds, who had many hundred years of story-telling and music-making traditions to fall back on. One of the most important events was the feast where such stories would have been presented for all to hear. Of course, all the while, enjoying meticulously prepared food, a long cry from the stereotypical gnawing on oversized chicken drumsticks! So please join the early musician Erik Ask-Upmark and food historian/culinary archeologist Daniel Serra to learn more about these aspects of the Vikings!