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By Terri Mapes, About.com Guide to Scandinavia Travel

A Culinary Attraction: Iceland's Midwinter Feast

Wednesday January 31, 2007
The old Viking tradition of Thorrablot is still celebrated in Iceland. During February, the fourth month of winter, the Vikings celebrated with great feasts and plenty of dancing and singing because spring would be returning soon. This tradition is now known as Thorrablot - Iceland's Midwinter Feast (click to read the new article!).

Icelandic restaurants and homes feature special menus with some of the traditional Viking foods like Slatur, which is sheep's blood pudding rolled in lard and sewn up in the stomach, as well as Svith, which is a half boiled lamb's head, pickled ram's testicles.

Let's be brave like the Vikings and taste it...before I change my mind.
Thorrablot - The Midwinter Feast

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