In medieval Scandinavia, there were two seasons: summer and winter.
Musset's work on medieval Scandinavia was a major impact on the style and backdrop of the comic.
Tables should not be confused with Tafl, an unrelated class of board games (albeit linguistically related) played in medieval Scandinavia.
Winter Nights or Old Norse vetrnætr was a specific time of year in medieval Scandinavia.
The series is inspired by the tales of the raiding, trading, and exploring Norsemen of early medieval Scandinavia.
In medieval Scandinavia, the practice survived throughout the Viking Age in the form of the Holmgang.
Medieval Scandinavia 2 (1969) 132-148.
But those same sites make clear that the Greenlanders were desperately short of iron, even by the standards of medieval Scandinavia, where iron wasn't plentiful.
Medieval Scandinavia 4 (1971): 60-79.
Hnefatafl was a popular game in medieval Scandinavia and was mentioned in several of the Norse Sagas.