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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 roofs were thatched or slanted. Within the house there was a fireplace and flat beds along the wall for sitting or sleeping. If the owner did not have stables, the animals were housed in stalls at the end of the longhouse. Hospitality was an important tradition for Vikings and travelers could be put up in longhouses.
Three and a half pithouses were excavated, as well as two of the roof-bearing post holes and some of the wall posts belonging to a longhouse dated to the Late Iron Age or Viking Age. The longhouse was estimated to be around 27 meters long, and contain six sets of roof-bearing posts. This longhouse was the first one found on the island of Samsø.
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 ...
Ravensborg Viking Ringfort. Ravensborg was a type of ringfort – a circular earthen rampart and wood palisade with several buildings within. These included a longhouse, a cookhouse, a forge shelter, gate house, and personal cottages regular visitors constructed for use by their families and guests.
Excavation of a Viking Age farm found in the village of Kvívík on the island Streymoy, shows substantial evidence of farming done in a style common to the Faroe Islands. A longhouse was unearthed during an excavation alongside a byre (smaller dwelling intended to house livestock during winter).
Similar to the other Viking ring castles found so far, the Trelleborg at Slagelse was designed as an exact circle with two roads crossing at right angles in the geometric center, leading to four gates with two gates always opposite each other. In each of the four quarters stood four almost identical longhouses arranged in a
Archaeological investigation of the site at the farm Stöð in Stöðvarfjörður has revealed two Viking-age longhouses, the older of which was (from C-14 dating) built shortly after the year 800. It is thought that the settlement was a seasonal camp for fishing and hunting, rather than a permanent settlement.