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I'm Hello and welcome to the history of Vikings.

Today I'm joined by chef Jonas Lorenzen, expert on food during the Viking age and acclaimed chef who owns a company called Mater, which seeks to incorporate elements of Norse mythology and history into the dishes they create, providing an entirely new Nordic food experience. He is also a well-known musician and is in live ensemble with the music group

High Lung, which I know many of you have reached out to me and said, you have to talk about

High Lung on your show because I'm a big fan of High Lung and I know many of you listening are. So

it's just, I'm super excited to get into our discussion today. We're going to be talking about

food during the Viking Age, as well as just a series our discussion today. We're going to be talking about food during the

Viking Age, as well as just a series of other topics. Well, Jonas, thank you so much for joining me

today. Thank you very much, Noah. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to get into all this stuff.

It's my pleasure. So I guess I kind of gave you an extremely brief introduction, but could you

kind of tell us a little

bit about your food company, Mater, and sort of what you do over there? Definitely. I mean,

we're based in, we're based in London. It's my wife and I started the company in 2017 while we

were doing a master's here. We're both doing a creative master's from a

university called Central St. Martin's. And we started the company as sort of to begin with

just to sort of make some extra money next to our studies and so on. But also just because I've

been a professional chef for many years and we've

sort of wanted to get into this, basically what we do is that we have been doing a lot of pop-up

events, so like one-off pop-up events. And we do that through different companies that sell

the tickets and then people can sell a ticket and you'll have a one-off experience. And we started

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