Apple with honey roasted rye bread

Apple trees grow wild in many parts of the world, and the fruit’s exact origin is therefore uncertain. However, the wild apple, the crab apple, has been known and used in Denmark for several thousand years. The Vikings were well aware of the apple’s beneficial qualities, and in Norse mythology we hear, among other things, about the goddess Idun’s apples. Idun is the goddess of youth, and she guards the enchanted apples that keep all the gods young for eternity.