Traditional Viking Homes

Throughout the norse lands people lived in longhouses langhús which were typically 5 to 7 meters 16 to 23 ft wide and anywhere from 15 to 75 meters 49 to 246 ft long depending on the wealth and social position of the owner.

Traditional viking homes. The illustration shows the floor plans of the excavated ruins of the 3 viking age turfhouses mentioned above in addition to two other houses that have not been reconstructed but which represent the two extremes of turfhouse size. Most of them were farmers who lived in small villages consisting of 6 7 farms. The viking home in summary. Only a small proportion of the vikings lived in towns.

The day started when the cock crowed at dawn. This viking house at brattahlid or qassiarsuk at present day narsarsuaq in greenland what was once the home of erik torvaldsson called erik the red and his son leif the happy is a reconstruction of the house design used at the time erik and leif were admittedly norwegian rather than danish but the architecture was the same that was used. The walls were made of wattle woven sticks covered with mud to keep out the wind and rain. Woodman maynard s board scandinavian traditional architecture on pinterest.

Apr 5 2017 explore k. Viking houses were often one room homes with a cooking fire in the middle. The viking home served many purposes cooking working and resting were all performed in the viking household. Icelandic architecture changed in many ways in the more than 1 000 years the turf houses were being constructed.

They lived in long rectangular houses made with upright timbers wood. In much of the norse region the longhouses were built around wooden frames on simple stone. Spartan in feature but warm due to the centrally located fires the viking home would provide a much needed respite in the cold winters when many viking folk would hibernate and keep warm indoors. The vikings built their houses from local material such as wood stone or blocks of turf.

For them the farm domestic animals and agriculture were all pivotal to the daily routine. Aðalstræti 14 16 a small and early turfhouse found in reykjavík and named for the street address where it was found and hofstaðir a grand home for a. The circular forts there are 6 of them have a strictly circular shape and they are called trelleborgs. 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.

The viking ring fortresses were military constructions. They were built during the viking age. See more ideas about traditional architecture architecture scandinavian. Viking houses were adapted to the surrounding area.