Bet your image of Vikings and their drinking horns is more likely to include beer or whiskey than white wine, but new research shows that Viking-era Danes may have been producing wines as well.
Because of the colder northern climate, it's always been assumed that the evidence of wine in Scandinavia reflected imports from southern Europe. But new analysis of grape seeds in archaeological sites has convinced researchers that they were grown locally.
Since Vikings of that era knew wine from their raids to the south, and used imported wines, they believe that it is likely that the local grapes were also used to make wine.
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