Trellborg viking longhouse, Denmark.

 
   
     
 

 



This is a reconstruction of a Viking longhouse at Trellborg Museum in Denmark. It's on the site where sixteen similar houses once stood about 1,000 years ago just outside the walls of a Viking fortress. These communal homes had one main room and a small room at each end.

   
           

It would house 40-50 people; men, women, children and servants all together in the same space. There was a fireplace at the middle where food was prepared, with seating and sleeping benches along both sides of the main room. In 1983 excavations in Norway that uncovered the largest Viking house in the world.

 
   
 
 

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