A Viking House in Trelleborg

A reconstructed Viking house at Trelleborg, Denmark

Typical, I kill the autofeed because it’s overwhelming my own posts and say that I’ll pick just one photo a day. Then the glut of images going into Flickr comes to an abrupt halt. I’ve added the one above. I’m not very happy with it – it’s a video capture rather than a digital photo. I was experimenting at the time with different methods of recording images.

It’s a reconstruction of a Viking long house at the Trelleborg Museum in Denmark. It’s a slightly dated reconstruction as I recall. The wooden pillars around the outside of the house are probably wrong, if I remember correctly, but it’s broadly right.

The museum was exactly the sort of museum I like. Small. I get artefact fatigue after a while so I like small amounts of information with walks between them. There’s also a nice fort at the site and some earlier 1st millennium houses too, which may make an appearance if nothing better turns up on Flickr.

The museum probably has a website at: http://www.vikingeborg.dk/. I say probably as it’s down at the moment. However there is an article with one of the best titles ever written by the curator of the museum available in English: A Brief Note on the Educational Aspects of Killing People