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Date: 2008-01-09 09:24 am (UTC)"And while there are plenty of seal bones in Norse dumps, virtually no fish bones have been recovered, leading some to argue that they never took advantage of the ample fish resources in the streams and fjords, even in times of famine.
Gisladottir, a native of Iceland, scoffs at the notion, pointing out that Norse in other lands ate fish in quantity. "Of course they ate fish," she says. "One common way of preparing cod was to gut it, dry it, and then cook it in a pot for three or four hours and eat your porridge, bones and all."
I.e., I am so convinced my theory is right that I'd rather believe that *every single fish they caught* was eaten whole from head to tail, rather than accept the evidence that they ate almost no fish.