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The main house is made up of four rectangular wings that enclose a courtyard. Pine and fir siding with ornamental handcarvings cover the wall surfaces, or they are exposed stone. The east wing is the main wing of the house, with a square three-story tower at the north end and a two-story tower at the south end.
The floor of a turf house could be covered with wood, stone or earth depending on the purpose of the building. They also had a fireplace that would be in the center of the house heating and lighting the whole house. Over time, the turf houses changed in size which directly related to their purpose and status of the owner.
The Scandinavian or Viking Langhus, with the variants of traditional farm house such as excavated in Vorbasse, a garrison/barracks type for warriors such as found at the Viking ring castles and the sophisticated large banquetting halls such as the mead halls. The southwest England variants in Dartmoor and Wales; The northwest England type in ...
Site of the former town of Hedeby Map of Viking Denmark with Hedeby at the southern edge Bilingual map of the Schlei (German and Danish placenames) Two reconstructed houses at Hedeby. The Old Norse name Heiða-býr simply translates to "heath-settlement" (heiðr "heath" and býr = "yard; settlement, village, town"). The name is recorded in ...
A reconstructed Viking chieftain's longhouse at the Lofotr Viking Museum in Lofoten, Norway. The Neolithic long house type was introduced with the first farmers of Central and Western Europe around 5000 BCE, 7,000 years ago. These were farming settlements built in groups of six to twelve longhouses; they were home to large extended families and ...
The Beginish house is a stone house and National Monument associated with the Viking period, located in County Kerry, Ireland. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Reconstructed Viking house, Fyrkat. Archaeological excavations in various parts of Denmark have revealed much about the way the Vikings lived. One such site is Hedeby, located 45 km (28 mi) south of the Danish border near Schleswig, it probably dates back to the end of the 8th century.
Recreated Norse long house, L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The site was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1978. [1] Vinland, Vineland, [2] [3] or Winland [4] (Old Norse: Vínland hit góða, lit. 'Vinland the Good') was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings.