Honestly, I don't know the answer to either question, but I can tell you that a Nordic bread culture has exited since prehistory.
Well bread came first but it was pretty dry so you needed beer to dip in it. Also that is why you find bread culture in the Nordic countries in prehistoric times. Vikings love bread and beer.
I love baking pies and cheesecake in my spare time but I would love to expand into other things could you tell me more about being a baker? Starting at the beginning, a baker works at a bakery. What kinds of things would you like to know? Do you know anything about the history of baking? I know that baking is a very old activity because grains have been a staple for thousands of years. Wow, I didn't know baking would have been around that long. I always thought it was a more recent invention. I don't even think native american maade any bread at all? I'm not actually aware of what the Native Americans did, but the Greeks of the sixth into the fifth century BCE used enclosed, wood-fired, communal ovens to bake their bread. Oh that would be a nice activity to do together. I guess people were more connected back then than we are today. Do you know what the first kinds of breads made were? Did bread or beer come first?
Nordic bread culture has existed in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden from prehistoric time through to the present.