My sources for this initial round of research include Jennifer Baker's What Were Vikings Eating As Food and the Viking Answer Lady's Viking Foods. (Also, The Viking Food Guy is one of the best resources for Norse foods that I know of, and he is in my home kingdom of An Tir, as is Meistara Kaðlin in Stórráða.)
These are foods that have been documented to Viking context on the Isle of Man*, Northumbria and Scotland, or Ireland:
Proteins:
Beef*, pork, mutton, poultry*, seafoods including cod*, herring*, mussels and salmon. Also hares,* extinct around 1000 CE and then reintroduced (but I don't eat lagomorphs, thank you, Richard Adams).
Dairy:
Milk, butter, cheese, cream, skyr.
Grains/Legumes:
Barley*, fava beans, oats*, garden peas, wheat, emmer* and spelt*.
Fruits:
Apples/crabapples*, blackberries, cherries, elderberries, raspberries, rose hips, sloes, strawberries.
Figs and grapes may have been imported.
Nuts:
Hazelnuts*, pine nuts (imported from Scotland), walnuts.
Vegetables:
Beets, cabbage*, carrots/wild carrots*, celery, turnips
Herbs & Seasonings
Specific to my area: Calendula, coriander/cilantro, dandelions, dill, fennel, mint, nettles*, winter savory*. Black mustard, sea salt, poppyseed. Honey.
Herbs and seasonings would have been easy to import from more distant parts of the Viking world, so I'll include watercress, cumin, mustard, and horseradish, lovage, parsley, thyme, marjoram, wild caraway, juniper berries, and garlic as other plausibilities.
*Found specifically on Man.
At some point, I'd really like to get my hands on whatever archaeological reports are available for Manx Viking sites. What I've presented above is very much my preliminary research, relying on the wonderful efforts of others, to whom I extend my gratitude for their hard work and willingness to share.
Sources:
Baker, Jennifer: What Were Vikings Eating As Food. Web resource.
Manx Wildlife Trust: http://www.manxwt.org.uk/manx-wildlife/manx-mammals
Ward, Christie: Viking Foods. Web resource.
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