Raw spiced salmon, known as gravlax or gravad lax (Swedish), gravad laks (Danish), gravlaks (Norwegian, Danish), graavilohi (Finnish), graavil?he (Estonian), graflax (Icelandic) is a Nordic dish consisting of raw salmon, cured in salt, sugar, and dill. Gravlax is usually served as an appetizer, sliced thinly and accompanied by hovm?stars?s (literally steward sauce, also known as gravlaxs?s), a dill and mustard sauce, either on bread of some kind, or with boiled potatoes.