Info Of Dna From Viking Cod Bones Suggests 1,000-Year History Of European Fish Trade

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE—Norway is famed for its cod. Catches from the Arctic stock that spawns each twelvemonth off its northern coast are exported across Europe for staple dishes from British fish too chips to Castilian bacalao stew.

Now, a novel report published today inwards the magazine PNAS suggests that approximately cast of this pan-European merchandise inwards Norwegian cod may convey been taking house for 1,000 years.

Latest interrogation from the universities of Cambridge too Oslo, too the Centre for Baltic too Scandinavian Archaeology inwards Schleswig, used ancient deoxyribonucleic acid extracted from the remnants of Viking-age fish suppers.

The report analysed 5 cod bones dating from betwixt 800 too 1066 AD institute inwards the mud of the old wharves of Haithabu, an early on medieval trading port on the Baltic. Haithabu is instantly a heritage site inwards modern Germany, exactly at the fourth dimension was ruled past times the King of the Danes.

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