If we believe Icelandic sagas, then people in medieval Iceland drank mead regularly. Mess is made from honey. Medieval Icelanders did not import mead or honey based on all available documents. Therefore medieval Icelanders had honeybees to make honey for mead. Honeybees are not native to Iceland. Therefore they must have been imported.
All of this together means that at least one medieval Norse sailor took a trip from somewhere in Europe to Iceland in a long ship with a hive full of live bees in order to get bees, honey and mead to medieval Iceland.
Submitted February 25, 2023 at 02:47AM by Sagasujin https://ift.tt/JTsAEQd