Vol 1: ep 3 page 50
Hart on June 24, 2023
Readers who have early access to the pages have had a few questions about this scene:
Q: Readers thought the character on the right was holding a dagger.
A: He is actually holding a horn and a ceramic bottle.
Q: Did the Vikings have bottles?
A: I'm drawing about the period of the High Middle Ages (preceding the Late Middle Ages): Denmark and Norway had already officially embraced Christianity, and paganism was gradually becoming a rudiment. With Christianity, wine consumption among the Normans was actively increasing. Cheap wine was transported and sold in wooden barrels, while more expensive varieties were poured and matured in individual clay vessels, the predecessors of modern bottles. The presence and drinking of such wine from ceramic jugs was considered a sign of prosperity.
bravo1102 at 12:19AM, June 25, 2023
There's my degree in Medieval studies coming to my rescue again. I knew all that. High middle ages would make it after the Norman Conquest in 1066 but before the Black Death in 1346.
Hart at 12:42AM, June 25, 2023
It's about 1000 to 1300. Rather, the adoption of Christianity by the Normans is taken into account here. In my story, events begin in 1016. :)