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Lodin's Kitchenware:


Cauldron

  Here is a cauldron I made. The sheet metal is hand hammered and the bail and attachments are forged. It is about 8 inches in diameter and holds about 2 quarts. Handle detail


Original artifact Viking age skillet  I made this skillet for our camp use as a reproduction of the skillet rendered in the illustration to the right. My intent was to make as close a copy as I could but it became a little more round bottomed than intended. The original has a sharp crease about 2 1/2" below the rim. I was a little too agressive in rounding the bottom and lost that edge.

Also, my fist attemp of making the pan I underestimated the amount of metal to be raised for the pan itself so the final diameter is less than the origial. All that asside, wehave found it makes a delicious egg and fish breakfast on nippy campsite mornings!


Frying Pan

 To the left is my flat bread skillet. The one found on the Oseberg Queen's burial ship measured 79 cm long with a pan 25 cm in Diameter. Mine is just a few cm less. There have been numerous skillets of this type found. Most have flat edges of the pan but one has a slight curled up lip.

 The skillet on the right, has been gifted to Helga Luthers, professor of Nordic studies, in appreciation for her support, teaching and advice for Fjellborg Vikings. AND that she was forced to bake on the blade of a shovel at one of our events... prompting me to get busy and make the skillets. She tells me it now hangs in her kitchen in Iceland.

The illustrations below are of other skillets as found, restored and displayed in various museums.



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