![]() ![]() ![]() The average Viking’s Longhouse was a modest dwelling, perhaps about 15 to 20 meters long. However, their length could vary immensely depending on who the house was built for. Typically speaking, they were about five to eight meters wide. ![]() ![]() What Were Viking Longhouses?Īs the name would suggest, Viking Longhouses were long but thin houses. These dwellings were central to Norse culture and society at the height of the Viking Age between the eighth and eleventh centuries. In particular, one rarely hears much about life in the average Viking Longhouse. Yet we know less about how the Vikings lived back home in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. Striking against coastal targets in their longships and making off with riches and slaves, they were soon pillaging much of Western Europe and voyaging as far west as Greenland and Newfoundland and southeast towards the Caspian Sea and Constantinople.Įventually, they carved out Dublin, East Anglia, and Normandy territories. Last updated on January 27th, 2023 at 07:29 pmĮvery schoolchild is familiar with tales of the ferocious Vikings who terrorized Europe for over two centuries from their first raids on Britain in the final years of the eighth century. ![]()
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