Unless you have a steady supply of food all year round, you have to store food when you can get it to have something to eat when the food isn't growing.
well once you have cooked the food it is ready to it so there is no need to preserve it
Most Vikings were farmers.
For maintains the ecosystem and the food chain
They need: extra clothes Fresh water Food Things to trade Weapons
water can not preserve food it attracts mold
The best ways to preserve food are to: Freeze the food Boiling or blanch food at high temperatures Use alcohol, acid, and salt and sugar in high concentrations Exclude air Remove moisture
because you need moisture to cause bacteria and if it is drying moisture wont get to it
Two reasons for canning foods are to preserve the food, and to make the food easier (less bulky) to store.
On meat, salt can preserve food.
they didnt
They stuffed the food with salt which would let it dry out and that's how they would preserve it.
Water doesn't necessarily preserve food. However, the canning process can preserve food. The boiling process can prevent any transfer of bacteria, fungus or microbes.