Door to Viking hut with thatched roof at the Viking Center of Ribe, Denmark.
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A Norwegian archaeologist, Marianne Moen, is making the big claim 'the past’ is incorrectly interpreted and that Viking Norway men’s and women’s cultural roles were similar. But not everyone agrees.
"Мне часто снятся все ребята. Друзья моих военных дней. Землянка наша в три наката…" Хорошая песня, душевная, но вот режет ухо словосочетание "Землянка наша в три наката". Не может она никак иметь три наката. Во-первых это физически ...
When you are part of the SCA, eventually, you want to upgrade your earth pimple to a real period tent. When you are a Viking persona, the logical thing is a Viking Tent. It’s an A frame, whic…
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"Мне часто снятся все ребята. Друзья моих военных дней. Землянка наша в три наката…" Хорошая песня, душевная, но вот режет ухо словосочетание "Землянка наша в три наката". Не может она никак иметь три наката. Во-первых это физически ...
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VIKING AGE IN RIBE, DENMARK Ribe is the best place in which to experience the Viking Age as it took place in Denmark. Ribe is Denmark's and Scandinavia’s oldest town. Here in Ribe you can both see authentic Viking findings, experience the reconstructed Viking Age and learn through hands-on activities. Viking attractions
I am fortunate to have a work were I work with living history. I work at a small viking village which lay in the buttom af the large Ringkøb...
Как построить землянку своими руками. Зачем нужна землянка? Советы и рекомендации по строительству землянки. Фото процесса строительства.
Replica Viking building at the Viking Center of Ribe, Denmark. Tenuous Link: green design.
Как построить землянку своими руками. Зачем нужна землянка? Советы и рекомендации по строительству землянки. Фото процесса строительства.
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See how a Viking blacksmith lived in about the year 900 AD. VikingHjem comes from the Old Norse heimr, which means ―to lie, settle– and refers to the home ofKeep Reading
Early English Architecture: The Buildings of the Anglo-Saxons, 450 CE to 1066. An illustrated essay by Author Octavia Randolph.
"Мне часто снятся все ребята. Друзья моих военных дней. Землянка наша в три наката…" Хорошая песня, душевная, но вот режет ухо словосочетание "Землянка наша в три наката". Не может она никак иметь три наката. Во-первых это физически ...
In the age of digital and networked societies, it may seem that only new technologies can move us forward. Martin challenges us to see how collaborative training in traditional skills can pave new ways into the livelihoods of European villages
If you think you know the history of Vikings think again. The new Viking museum in Stockholm is about to set the record straight.
You have to admire thatch. It can last 30 years, and in Denmark is anchored at the top with oak cappings. The technique is still used, and on large structures. It developed early, see ://home.golden.net/~wareham/worldnorse/wntown.html/; and ://www.darkcompany.ca/fullcirc/fulcirc2.php/ Saxons also used the sunken floor idea, see ://www.regia.org/houses.htm - borders were fluid, much go-between, but the Germanic Saxons had some linguistic and cultural differences from the Norse, evolved from their greater exposure to the more southern tribes? Some thatch is topped with sod, turf and the resulting grass. Put your goat to work. Viking house, sod roof, Trelleborg at Slagelse DK The sunken floor adds warmth. See them on Viking Village reconstructions, particularly structures at Trelleborg on Zealand (see also Ladbyskibet, where the outline of a buried Viking ship is found under the mound, near Kerteminde, Funen - see://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/sarahindenmark/denmark/1189800060/tpod.html). The advantage: ready materials; and a good hiding place, just tuck your necklace up there, except for the disadvantage. The disadvantage: Fire, that spreads fast; and bugs and creepies in residence up there, and falling down. s paltry as they are. We wished for more explanations for the whimsical carvings. Are these from originals? Whimsy looks part of the cultural landscape even then. Horse carving reproduced, Trelleborg at Slagelse, DK The cult of the horse. Read Horse Burial in Scandinavia in the Viking Age, by Peter Shenk of the University of Oslo at ://www.bahumuth.chaosnet.org/fantasy/writings/Valhalla.doc. Is that a horse burial at Roskilde Cathedral. Trelleborg, Slagelse, Denmark. Viking settlement park Roof capping with shingling, for thatch, Viking reconstruction, Trelleborg at Slagelse, Denmark Sunken floor, living area, Viking house, Trelleborg, Slagelse, DK Burial mound, Ladbyskibbet, DK (enter and find outline of buried Viking ship) Get to the mound on time. We rely on pictures of the inside for this. Viking-type carving (premodern minimalism) Trelleborg DK These look like Easter Island. Smoke down here goes up there, Viking house smokehole, reproduced at Trelleborg, near Slagelse, DK Were these Viking-type carvings intended as seriously spiritual, evocative; or just casual? In some (many) burial sites, the buried ships hold women, and there is other evidence of their holding positions of status, holding substantial purse-strings and managing the community. Viking theology. Does this help explain the female figure the same size, if not bigger, than the male. Or is it? Culture. The pre-Christian religious structure suggests that there were three basic areas for the deities to manage: Odin, in charge of warfare, inspiration for poets, courage for battle, and wind-thunder-storm, and a concept of "the hanged man" that appears still in Tarot; to whom the more well-to-do responded; Thor, for farmers and the common person; and Freyja for sorcery, incantation, bringing things about, and female sexual power. Her brother, Frey, stood for male potency but not on the same power scale as the other 3, Odin, Thor and Freya. This is rough, but go to The Vikings, A History by Robert Ferguson, Penguin Group 2009, at pages around 23. Look up the Oseberg ship from Norway at the Ferguson book at about 12. Reviews of Mr. Ferguson's book highlight scholarly disagreements with his conclusions, see for example, ://www.openlettersmonthly.com/ranvaik-owns-this-box/ . Our concern is different, and so far not picked up. Why are pre-Christian people (say, women) who are effective community leaders, able to get things done, heal, "know" how to do things, get dismissed as sorcerers, while the boys are out knocking heads and proud of it. Next reviewer: analyze Mr. Ferguson's bias toward the "Christian" fear of women's abilities that reflect in his very characterization of them in that culture -- otherwise unsupported -- in referring to skills that many men simply do not have, or understand. Is it sorcery, or a way of knowing? Who ran the show at home anyway, while the guys were off, like the Crusaders or the Vikings. The women, stupid. Is that so? Or is this just late at night and we are fed up with surface dismissals by label of one culture smacked on another, like the Church does? Rather routinely?
