What were the Viking homes and settlements like?
Below is a quote from a book called “What life was like when longships sailed”, by the editors of Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia that should give you a better idea. “Each farm served as its own tiny hamlet for an extended family and perhaps a few slaves. At its center stood the communal residence-a longhouse constructed more for warmth than for beauty, with walls made of wood, or sometimes sod or wattle and daub(wickerwork plastered with clay) Grouped around the longhouse, and sometimes attached to it, were various outbuildings-stables for livestock, storage sheds for food, workshops for forging iron and other crafts, boathouses for sheltering vessels in winter, and huts for storing other precious equipment like plows, fishing tackle, carts, sleighs, and skis. Some Viking farms had freestanding privies (Outhouses) and sauna like bathhouses. Many homesteads were dotted with burial mounds; for Vikings felt that the dead should rest near their descendants.” “Life in the longhouse w
