Test your taste buds during Iceland’s Viking food challenge

Iceland’s most notorious delicacy hákarl (rotten shark) may have made Gordon Ramsay’s stomach turn on the The F-Word but curious foodies can sample some for themselves from January 25 – February 23, 2009 during Thorrablot - Iceland’s annual mid-winter Viking feast.

Join the locals for the month-long festivities and try unusual Viking dishes such as boiled sheep’s head (svið) and congealed sheep’s blood wrapped in a ram’s stomach (blóðmör) washed down a stiff shot of Brennivin or ‘black death’ – a potent schnapps.

After the traditional Thorrablot feast songs, games and story-telling are accompanied by dancing and in true Icelandic style continue in to the early hours of the morning!

Throughout the celebration participating restaurants in Reykjavik including Restaurant Reykjavik (restaurantreykjavik.is) and Mulakaffi (veislurettir.is) add Thorrablot colour and taste to their menus.

Travel to Reykjavik to challenge your taste buds during Thorrablot with Icelandair from £199 per person including return flights from Manchester or London Heathrow, three nights hotel accommodation and entrance to Laugardalslaug, Iceland's biggest geothermal swimming pool.

For more information, log on to icelandair.co.uk.