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Twenty-one [14] or twenty-three game pieces [15] are used in kubb: Ten kubbs, rectangular wooden blocks 10–15 cm tall and 5–7 cm square on the end. One king, a larger wooden piece 25–30 cm tall and 7–9 cm square on the end, sometimes adorned with a crown design on the top. Six batons, 25–30 cm long and 2.5–4.4 cm in diameter.
English has borrowed the term from tafl (pronounced; Old Norse for 'table'), [4] [5] a generic term referring to board games.. Hnefatafl (roughly , [5] plausibly realised as [n̥ɛvatavl]), became the preferred term for the game in Scandinavia by the end of the Viking Age, to distinguish it from other board games, such as skáktafl (), kvatrutafl and halatafl (), as these became known. [2]
October 10, 1996 Vikingsholm is a 38-room mansion on the shore of Emerald Bay at Lake Tahoe , in El Dorado County, California , U.S., and on the National Register of Historic Places . It has been called "one of the finest examples of Scandinavian architecture in North America."
The walls were made of wood with stones piled up underneath and for the foundation. Occasionally vertical beams were built along the inside of the building to add additional support. Due to the size of the boats (approx. 25–30 m long, 15 m wide, and 5 m high) the boathouses had to be large enough to accommodate the ships.
Loft building with four rooms, 17th century, Dalarna , now at Hedemora gammelgård museum. The loft at Mellom Kravik, Nore og Uvdal. Loft is a traditional two-storey wooden building preserved mostly in Norway.
Turf house with a wooden gafli in Iceland.. Icelandic architecture changed in many ways in more than 1,000 years after the turf houses were being constructed. The first evolutionary step happened in the 14th century, when the Viking-style longhouses were gradually abandoned and replaced with many small and specialized interconnected buildings.
A reconstructed Viking Age longhouse (28.5 metres long) in Denmark.. Among the early Germanic peoples, a mead hall or feasting hall was a large building with a single room intended to receive guests and serve as a center of community social life.
The legend says that the wood for the block houses came as driftwood from Norway and was accurately bundled and numbered, just for being set up. Note that there is no forest in the Faroes, with the exception of a wood in northern Tórshavn, and wood is a very valuable material. Many such wood legends are thus to be found in Faroese history.