No the women really wanted the Vikings to suffer. The same lye, as you know, that is an industrial chemical and in used today as a drain cleaner. With that lutefisk information in my head I went to our village's annual Lutefisk Dinner recently, a marvelous night of traditional Scandinavian dining put on by the local Sons of Norway club. The main course, not surprisingly, was the very same delicacy served to the Vikings. Textbooks tell us that within a few years the Viking era had ended.
Most historians think the advent of more powerful weapons doomed the proud, sea-faring warriors.
This would include Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Minnesota. In the centuries since, lutefisk has not only remained a crowd-pleaser among the Scandinavian people, it has also become important in the training of sled dogs. But back to the dinner. The Sons of Norway should not be confused with a similar-sounding group, the Sons of Silence. For one thing, the sons of Silence do not hold a Lutefisk Dinner each year.