Getting to know Zoe Delahunty-Light and the horrible histories she loves

1 year 1 month ago

Do you know how Vikings used to work out who'd die of their wounds and who wouldn't? And I mean internal wounds here, not obvious external ones.

Onion soup.

The Viking healers would feed the warriors really stinky onion soup and then, if the healers could smell it, it probably meant the stomach had been perforated and old Bjorn was on their way to Valhalla.

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Robert Purchese

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