Pickled testicles headline festival

Icelanders are sampling traditional foods in February, during the month-long festival of Thorrablot.

Vikings used to celebrate during February with feasts, dancing and singing because it was the fourth month of winter and this meant spring would be returning soon.

Some of the traditional foods eaten during Thorrablot include fermented shark, seal flippers, boiled lamb’s head, and sheep’s blood pudding rolled in lard and sewn up in the stomach.

Icelanders’ top five favourite foods for Thorrablot included pickled ram’s testicles, sheep brain jelly, a sausage of fermented stomach parts, fermented whale blubber and blood pudding.