How a Fish Saved the Vikings


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The Vikings suffered many hardships living in the north of Europe: long, cold winters and importantly a lack of sunlight. Luckily, they had cod. When making a video about vitamins I thought the story would mainly be about supplement pills, whether we should or shouldn't take them and how they're made. But what I found out is vitamins have a remarkable story that affects many more aspects of our lives. For example the Vikings needed a source of vitamin D to last the dark winter months and for their children to develop strong, healthy bones, avoiding rickets.

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veritasium, science, vikings, viking, cod, fish, norway, vitamin, vitamins, vitamin D, sunlight, sunshine, greenland, iceland, health, nutrition, history, rickets, osteomalacia
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  • Hank Murphy

    Amazing story about COD fish saving the Vikings. Keep up the good work Mel.

  • Sheila W.

    Quite interesting. I remember taking the cod liver oil concentrate as a child. It was administered by dropper and all 3 of us loved it. I was the one who figured out how to climb up to the cupboard where it was kept and like a mother bird, giving some, drop by drop, to my brothers, not forgetting myself. Haven't thought about that in years.