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b'In this long overdue Saga Brief, we discuss drinking in the Viking Age and the Sagas of Icelanders. This first part looks at what they were drinking and how it was perceived culturally. In the second part, coming soon, we\'ll look into the culture of drinking as we explore where and how they drank.\\nHere is a short bibliography of the texts and studies referred to, either directly or indirectly, in this episode:\\nEtting, Vivian. The Story of the Drinking Horn: Drinking Culture in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages. Publications of the National Museum of Denmark v.21, 2013.\\nDineley, Graham, and Merryn Dineley. \\u201cWhere Were the Viking Brew Houses?\\u201d EXARC 2013/2 (2013). https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10117\\nHallger\\xf0ur Gisladottir, \'The Use of Whey in Icelandic Households\', in Milk and Milk Products from Medieval to Modern Times: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Ethnological Food Research, Ireland. J992, ed. Patricia Lysaght (Canongate Academic, 1994), pp. 123-29.\\nMark, Joshua J. \\u201cNorse Alcohol and the Mead of Poetry.\\u201d World History Encyclopedia. Published January 7, 2019. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1307/norse-alcohol--the-mead-of-poetry/ .\\nRiseley, Charles. Ceremonial Drinking in the Viking Age. MA Thesis. University of Oslo, 2014.\\nRodriguez, Jes\\xfas Fernando Guerrero. Old Norse Drinking Culture. PhD Dissertation. University of York, 2007.\\nRood, Joshua. Drinking with \\xd3\\xf0inn: Alcohol and Religion in Heathen Scandinavia. H\\xe1skoli \\xcdslands, 2014.\\nVuorisalo, Timo, et al. \\u201cHigh Lactose Tolerance in North Europeans: A Result of Migration, not In Situ Milk Consumption." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 55:2 (2012), 163-174.\\nWinroth, Anders. The Age of the Vikings. Princeton UP, 2016.\\nMusic Credits\\nOpening song \\u2013\\xa0Icelandic Folk Music: Tr\\xf6llaslagur\\nPoetry music - Midnight Tale by Kevin MacLeodLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license\\nOutro \\u2013\\xa0\\xd3lafur Liljur\\xf3s'