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/ 20 November 2005

It must be autumn: Norway feasts on sheep’s head

It takes guts to stare your food in the eyes and then swallow them, but once Norwegians are let loose on a smoked sheep’s head, they let nothing go to waste, except the bare bones of the skull. In Voss, a tiny town in the mountains near the south-west Norwegian fjords, people have always eaten the ”smalahove”, which means ”sheep’s head” in the local dialect.