Niiice,that's where I'm from😂 I've tared that roof as my first summer job(at 14). And later did the roof on the viking museum. Had my confirmation in the church right behind it.🎉
How great you can be a part of all of this as a local. I'd imagine it was big news when the farmer discovered remains in 1981. Or maybe that was just confirmation of what everyone already suspected based on the mounds there.
That is so cool! American guy here 27 from Georgia in the woods. Love history of all peoples and culture of theirs. Viking culture and lifestyle was so much more effort due to where they were located. Nonetheless they built some amazing wooden structures for their time. So cool!
Bro, honestly, you should make a channel about life up there just like your normal Vlogs or do whatever you want build stuff your job I would watch it and I think a lot of other people would because we’re intrigued
This is a wonderful documentary on the long house. So well stated with a lot of history. The tools were amazing. The Vikings were clever people in design, skill and, cunning. Thank you so much, Kirsten and team for making this video.
The Vikings were innovative with wood animal skins and wool..making everyday useful items that made life comfortable..thanks for taking us to this long house ..❤
This by far is one of my favorite stories that you've done. So educational and the cinematography of the landscapes was gorgeous. So hard to imagine traveling the oceans in those ships. Really great stuff you guys. I was riveted from start to finish.
I am obsessed with your channel ❤ I just can’t get enough of all these unique and beautiful and just different kind of houses u get to explore and share with us!!!! You have the BEST job ever!!!!❤
But you can visit the museum yourself and try a boat tour with a viking ship. Kroner er low, great exchange rates and the summers were awesome, very warm. BTW I visit Lofotr musuem several times already.
Another stunning video by the brilliant Kirsten Dirksen! Thank you so much for taking me on a visit to this beautiful part of Norway and for teaching me so much about its history. I am excited to share the video with my friend who lives in Norway.
Thank you for explaining the pre Viking culture and the different jobs necessary to make the community work. I truly enjoyed learning about the long house, the ships, the clothing, the food, all were wll explained and demonstrated in interesting ways.
Visited this museum many times when growing up in Lofoten. Very interesting place especially for those interested in history, archeology or architecture.
I have been to Oslo long ago and visited Norsk Folkemuseum. I learned a lot about their history and how they lived in early days. Much respect to their way of living back then.
I love that you have done so many videos in Norway, where my family ancestry is from. They moved from Bergen, Norway to the US, in Iowa, in 1863. So glad I have that knowledge and heritage. And so glad you have explored Norway. I plan to visit, if not potentially live. Thank you ❤️. It gives me an insight into the Norway unlike any other channel. The stories, the people, the lifestyle, and the atmosphere.
@@lhurst9550 Yeah, I can't imagine. They may not have even known, until arriving. They settled in the Iowa territory to farm, and there wasn't war activities in the area.
Great video, thank you! They talk about how all the rooms would have been filled with smoke, but I find it hard to believe that the Vikings would not have found a way to vent the smoke.
Really wonderful film. Thank you for featuring the many aspects of this terrific living history site. While I live in Southern California, I have both Danish and Norwegian ancestry, and love history. What I find significant is how peoples all over the world had the same crafts necessary for day to day life, but accomplished them using different materials depending on where they lived. I was struck by the tanning process (tannins, duh...how did I never make the connection?) and similarities with the way Native American women of the Plains peoples processed the hides of bison/buffalo using salt and a concoction made of the chopped up brains of the animals. Long houses were common in the northern part of the East Coast as well. I do like to imagine what a meeting of Vikings and Native Americans might have been like. Those Viking boats look like so much fun!
True, she did misspeak in the intro, but corrected in the rest of the video - no doubt it would have been exceptionally difficult to revisit the site and reshoot the intro once they were editing and noticed it. So, please don't be pedantic, rather accept that we are prone to making errors, and that is how we learn.
When she said it the second time, I had to come check the comments. I wouldn't call it pedantic since she did repeated the mistake, and as you say, there's a big difference.
That fish part at 17:00 was incredible. It keeps for 10 YEARS!!! unreal... when she said you have to rehydrate for 20 days in water was an eye opener for me big time.
What an awesome place. "Longhouses" are in a lot of places. Here in the US, a lot got destroyed in the 1800's. It's beautiful! To call our ancestors "Primative" is so wrong. They were smart, advanced, and resourceful. Why people try to hide these things or destroy them before people could see them was wrong too. We "Found" (Founded) so many historical sites and claimed that they built the ancient buildings is not true history. Taking credit for structures that were already built happened across the world. I'm glad to see this reconstruction. Thank You for sharing with us. 😊
This is one of my very favorite videos you both have done! It was amazing and the area is stunning. I want to live there. What a beautiful place to live. Not The Longhouse, but, just the area. I’m very interested in the basket making and the weaving. Wonderfully done. So much appreciated information. The people are very kind as well. Thank you so much for another treat for us.
Shoutout to Jan for being a great guide, a multitalented guy, and showing you his boat! ^_^ It would have been nice with some footage from the forge, where the nails (and the tools meant for them) can be made! ;) -Even/Thryrik
@@TorchwoodPandP Not really true. they extrapolated from other viking settlements all over Scandinavia. So they have a much better idea than just some holes
@@TorchwoodPandP most ruins today that look nice are almost always rebuilt, ww1 and ww2 destroyed most of what ruins had been uncovered and was in good shape so most structures that are ancient and standing are not fully originals
Having followed your channel for years, when I found this episode, I already knew it would be my favourite so far from just the title and picture :) I have seen/ experienced a smaller but also impressive example in Ribe Denmark. When watching, memories of the smell of the fireplace came back. My family tree goes back to Scandinavia and i feel much like some ancestors have been in such houses. The acoustics, the wood, the haptic of the natural things, the food, the high roof, the artworks, the dimmed light, the colours, the nature, weather and seasons around, crafting, sailing and how everything is arranged around this fireplace - everything together speaks to me in a special, familiar way. Seen much more architechture that had a kind of soul, but in these viking halls I feel at home the most. People just should start building houses like this again.
This is a really well made documentary. Also, the guides are excellent. I passed this museum last year, but didn't have time to stop - there's so much to see on Lofoten's incredible islands, one of the planet's most beautiful regions. This has filled in a lot of information for me so... thanks! (Lofoten isn't further north than Alaska, by the way - even Nordkapp isn't as far north as Point Barrow.)
@8:24 would you look at that Viking with his earpods, instead of weapons?! Amazing!! 😂 Such _stunningly beautiful_ craftsmanship on everything they've recreated here. Makes you want to rethink our modern building practices of today. We could be doing better for ourselves & nature IF we simply looked to the past & upgraded & little bit along the way. Add in some solar panels, skylights at one end for a green house effect & poof! Year round food production on a very small personal sized scale. Thanks for sharing all this wonderful long form content. Not once have you been "skimpy" with the length. We can sit, with a cup of coffee (or tea, or water) & just enjoy learning about such uniquely different homes halfway around the world (for some of us).😊 Too many other channels _try_ & fail to cram all of this wondrous adventure, about _our_ human history, into an 8 to10 minute video. They suck the life & soul out of the entire experience. Nope *not* you, not here!😂 YOU have given us what we need, with this refreshing taken on educating us with your channel. Way to go team! Love what you're doing here, New sub! ❤❤❤❤❤
Wow, this was fascinating - so much so, that the end of the video snuck up on me! What a fantastic place to visit, so much to see and learn about. I'm just in awe... By the way, Kirsten, your shirt was truly beautiful, it really caught my eye - it looked great on you. What an experience you and Nicholas must have had; I'm sure there was much more to your visit to the area that the two of you were able to see and enjoy, too. I know you both work hard, but you also get to see some amazing areas and places. Thanks for sharing this wonderful reconstruction and the talented folks who learn and share the old ways. 😊
Why do you write museum with an apostrophe? The Lofotr Viking Museum is actually a museum. In addition to reconstructing the longhouse whose remains were found on the site, there is a collection of objects excavated on the site and in nearby areas. Reconstructed objects are based on archaeological finds elsewhere in the country, and with their help they have recreated an authentic environment that is much more educational than just a collection of objects.
@@pappelg2639 When you use an apostrophe, you indicate that you are using a word that is not quite correct. In this case, the word museum is completely correct.
I am half Māori from New Zealand and the carving looks very much like that of our traditional Māori meeting houses called "marae". Particularly the entrance way. Was there some influence there? I'm curious as my father is Māori but my mother is Scandinavian and it's so fascinating seeing this 😍
@cleopaehua9337 I've been studying and reading alot and I know that some people won't agree but it's true. Very ancient European, Middle Eastern, Indians, Polynesian have forefathers thats been all over the world interbreeding with different people and its highly likely genetics change over thousands of years migrating and changes
Excellent destination. My grandfather grew up on the Lofoten island of Skrova in the 1920s-30s. Pretty sure he was there also during the German occupation from 1940-1945. He used to tell stories about a rough life, times were difficult, fishermen routinely getting lost at sea, etc. But what a place!!
Any living structure placed 18" below the ground level will remain a constant temperature of 75°, no matter how cold or hot it is outside! Our Dad always did this! We never had to use electric air conditioners or heaters. We had fireplaces but only for asthetics! We suggest next time you build a house or barn, place it 18" below ground level! Your electric bill will be minimal!
Always found it interesting that Viking era peoples lived such short lives (where 40 was considered old and they were all dead before 50) and yet they achieved so much in their short time
I remember once a long time ago, I was part of such a Clan. In the Clan, I was expected to go with the men to raid and we sailed south toward Germania and West toward Scotland. We were gone for months and we would take part in raids and take people, animals, tools and weapons and any gold but gold was too rare. Only large Castles had gold and we were one ship with 40 men. After my 30th year, I decided to stop raiding, but the Clan decided that I was weak and to punish me to show an example, I was put in a mine for coal. But I told them that I would gladly stay in the mine and break the rock and bring up the coal if it means I don't have to carry a spear or an axe anymore. Then after 10 years in the mine, a missionary came to our camp, really the Chief was taken by his folklore and myths and talk of a single God. In the days he was amongst the Clan, he asked about others in the town and he found me by chance talking to some children about the old man in the mine. He came to me one day and I explained that I was tired of the life of a raider and taking people's valuables and burning their homes and running off their men and taking girls as slaves. And he asked how much longer I was to be made to work in the coal mine and I explained that I had already been in the mine eight years longer than my banishment by choice, giving up my place in the Clan and wife and property and share of the wealth and the land. He marveled at me, asking if I didn't miss them, my wife my clan and my village? And I said of course, it would pain me most at night as I slept so poorly because of the feeling of desolation, of being empty and alone and cold and dead in this poorly lit and damp mine. But I also said that I had to decide to become something stronger than just another blind raider partaking in the bounty of capture and the hard life at sea with a broken back and thick skin on my hands and face from the oar and the wind and the sun when it shone and from the cold and the rain that often hid the sun. But I felt a kind of peace down here in the mine, a place of solace and sanctum, close to the Earth and to the bed that I will take when I am gone. For it's better to live a lonely and hard life without the love of my Clan and family because I have stopped the raiding and the plunder and the suffering I have caused and taken part in. I would rather my old hands be dark with coal that red with blood. I would rather hear the sound of water dripping in the mine than the howl of the wind in the sheet or the cries of those we set upon. He left me saying that I was special among my Clan for forsaking the destruction of others and taking no part in the destruction and suffering of those people's beyond my home shores. On my 52 year, I left the mine and went back to the village and sate upon a wood stump and felt the Spring sun upon my face and asked if I could have some broth from the kettle. And the young girl that served me, was my own grandchild that I never knew I had.
And the rules also meant that the chieftain decided wether af newborn child should live or not, if he meant there was enough food for the child etc. If not it was killed or places out in the wild to die. We are lucky to have contraception nowadays. Imagine being the mother and have to let your child die!
Fascinating! I have to visit that longhouse. I imagine how busy they were inside there during the winter; making clothing, sails, cooking. What a huge operation. I wonder what they did with people who got out of control. Maybe they had a "time out" room 😂
If they got too much out of control they were declared outlaws and were as such “legal game” for everyone. Most outlaws chose to sail to Iceland or Greenland and live there.
Touristy, but very educational, accurate, and well-communicated interpretatioon. I only wish the boat were a more accurate full-scale reconstruction. And that the fire pit in the longhouse ran the entire length of the building, as original.
I actually don't think it was so smoky since 1. theres an hole in the roof right above the fire where the smoke can escape and 2. the ceiling is so high that the smoke would go up and gather there. And you can see that in reconstructions of other viking buildings that they are not at smoky as you might expect.
Really enjoy the format you are using. The walking about & asking about this or that... very relaxed & natural. Friendly. (And you have very interesting voice. IMHO.)
Interesting, With a building that large you would assume there would be other foundations near by. The amount of work to construct that in ancient times would be nearly impossible for a small group of people to achieve especially in the short amount of time they had in-between brutally cold weather. Got to remember every single log had to be chopped and hand honed and transported to the location. Digging the foundation alone would have been a monumental task as well with just picks and shovels.
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Niiice,that's where I'm from😂 I've tared that roof as my first summer job(at 14). And later did the roof on the viking museum. Had my confirmation in the church right behind it.🎉
How great you can be a part of all of this as a local. I'd imagine it was big news when the farmer discovered remains in 1981. Or maybe that was just confirmation of what everyone already suspected based on the mounds there.
That is so cool! American guy here 27 from Georgia in the woods. Love history of all peoples and culture of theirs. Viking culture and lifestyle was so much more effort due to where they were located. Nonetheless they built some amazing wooden structures for their time. So cool!
Bro, honestly, you should make a channel about life up there just like your normal Vlogs or do whatever you want build stuff your job I would watch it and I think a lot of other people would because we’re intrigued
I already subbed I expect weekly videos 😂
@bengtriise6504 what a fantastic story. Thank you for sharing.
This is a wonderful documentary on the long house. So well stated with a lot of history. The tools were amazing. The Vikings were clever people in design, skill and, cunning. Thank you so much, Kirsten and team for making this video.
The Vikings were innovative with wood animal skins and wool..making everyday useful items that made life comfortable..thanks for taking us to this long house ..❤
The longhouse is stunning. Homesteaders should consider the design for a large warm cozy living space.
My school class went there in the 7th grade! It was a amazing experience. The viking age looks pretty neat.
This by far is one of my favorite stories that you've done. So educational and the cinematography of the landscapes was gorgeous. So hard to imagine traveling the oceans in those ships. Really great stuff you guys. I was riveted from start to finish.
This is my favorite episode! What an amazing living museum.
I am obsessed with your channel ❤ I just can’t get enough of all these unique and beautiful and just different kind of houses u get to explore and share with us!!!! You have the BEST job ever!!!!❤
@@retro.x 100%
Because she made her own job, that is the ultimate self-realization
But you can visit the museum yourself and try a boat tour with a viking ship. Kroner er low, great exchange rates and the summers were awesome, very warm. BTW I visit Lofotr musuem several times already.
Another stunning video by the brilliant Kirsten Dirksen! Thank you so much for taking me on a visit to this beautiful part of Norway and for teaching me so much about its history. I am excited to share the video with my friend who lives in Norway.
Thank you for explaining the pre Viking culture and the different jobs necessary to make the community work. I truly enjoyed learning about the long house, the ships, the clothing, the food, all were wll explained and demonstrated in interesting ways.
@@kilipaki87oritahiti It was not, viking was back in the day used as a verb, to go viking meant to travel far/abroad, to go on a journey
I was there many years ago. One of the best places I've been. Felt raw and real and connected to so much beauty. I could live and work there.
Visited this museum many times when growing up in Lofoten. Very interesting place especially for those interested in history, archeology or architecture.
Excellent documentary! I watched from beginning to end! The cinematography is also beautiful. Such natural beauty in Norway!
I have been to Oslo long ago and visited Norsk Folkemuseum. I learned a lot about their history and how they lived in early days. Much respect to their way of living back then.
Very interesting video. So crazy that they could make fabric back then that was 60 threads per cm! The bellows were very neat as well 👍
I know right?? The treating of the leather was fascinating.
This was one of your best presentations! I love the cultural history.
love seeing some old timey interlacing techniques!
I love that you have done so many videos in Norway, where my family ancestry is from. They moved from Bergen, Norway to the US, in Iowa, in 1863. So glad I have that knowledge and heritage. And so glad you have explored Norway. I plan to visit, if not potentially live. Thank you ❤️. It gives me an insight into the Norway unlike any other channel. The stories, the people, the lifestyle, and the atmosphere.
Hell of a time to move to a country, in the middle of a war.
@@lhurst9550 Yeah, I can't imagine. They may not have even known, until arriving. They settled in the Iowa territory to farm, and there wasn't war activities in the area.
This was all fascinating! Thank you for patiently filming these processes; much appreciated.
Norway is probably the most physically beautiful country I have ever seen. Stunning.
@@JohnW-ey2xu After Italy.
*Kirsten Dirksen* Bravo well done, thanks for taking the time to bring us along. GOD Bless.
Which one?
Great video, thank you!
They talk about how all the rooms would have been filled with smoke, but I find it hard to believe that the Vikings would not have found a way to vent the smoke.
I'm sure they did. They weren't stupid.
@@wms72 I agree. I find it annoying when people underestimate our ancestors like they were somehow not as smart as us.
This was brilliant! Thank you all for sharing this wonderful living museum with us!
i love seeing how my ancestors may have lived, so inentive and creative with a solution for every issue they may encounter
Oh! This is so great to be taken on a tour and have things explained so well! The reenactment is wonderful! You really did a great job with this one!
I was a volunteer in the museum in May 2011 (Smithy). NIce to see the people I know, amongst which the long-time guide walking past, Laura.
Thank you Kirsten! Very interesting! Lots of great ideas for survival in a place with extremes of light and dark and long winters of bitter cold!
Really wonderful film. Thank you for featuring the many aspects of this terrific living history site. While I live in Southern California, I have both Danish and Norwegian ancestry, and love history. What I find significant is how peoples all over the world had the same crafts necessary for day to day life, but accomplished them using different materials depending on where they lived. I was struck by the tanning process (tannins, duh...how did I never make the connection?) and similarities with the way Native American women of the Plains peoples processed the hides of bison/buffalo using salt and a concoction made of the chopped up brains of the animals. Long houses were common in the northern part of the East Coast as well. I do like to imagine what a meeting of Vikings and Native Americans might have been like. Those Viking boats look like so much fun!
I hate being pedantic but a longhouse isn't a roundhouse, the clue is in the shape, great vid 👍
True, she did misspeak in the intro, but corrected in the rest of the video - no doubt it would have been exceptionally difficult to revisit the site and reshoot the intro once they were editing and noticed it.
So, please don't be pedantic, rather accept that we are prone to making errors, and that is how we learn.
how long needs a house be to be named a longhouse? how long is a rope, and if not, is it round?
@@Rimrock300 your parents have failed you
Thank you! I was doubting myself
When she said it the second time, I had to come check the comments.
I wouldn't call it pedantic since she did repeated the mistake, and as you say, there's a big difference.
That fish part at 17:00 was incredible. It keeps for 10 YEARS!!! unreal... when she said you have to rehydrate for 20 days in water was an eye opener for me big time.
What an awesome place. "Longhouses" are in a lot of places. Here in the US, a lot got destroyed in the 1800's. It's beautiful! To call our ancestors "Primative" is so wrong. They were smart, advanced, and resourceful. Why people try to hide these things or destroy them before people could see them was wrong too. We "Found" (Founded) so many historical sites and claimed that they built the ancient buildings is not true history. Taking credit for structures that were already built happened across the world. I'm glad to see this reconstruction. Thank You for sharing with us. 😊
This was such a treat to watch! Being a Viking was a full time job! Thank you so much.
That was one of the best videos you’ve made I love your wide range of living alternatives ❤❤❤I’m hooked lol
This is one of my very favorite videos you both have done! It was amazing and the area is stunning. I want to live there. What a beautiful place to live. Not The Longhouse, but, just the area. I’m very interested in the basket making and the weaving. Wonderfully done. So much appreciated information. The people are very kind as well. Thank you so much for another treat for us.
FASCINATING.....THANK YOU!!!
We visited this long house during our Hurtigruten journey in February this year. Beautiful
Best Viking Documentary I have seen. Nice work!
I drop everything when you drop a new video. Always inspiring and interesting.
What an absolutely beautiful place to live! ❤
Shoutout to Jan for being a great guide, a multitalented guy, and showing you his boat! ^_^
It would have been nice with some footage from the forge, where the nails (and the tools meant for them) can be made! ;)
-Even/Thryrik
They all were amazing! Very good and clear explanations. And also Kirsten cinematography
Nice! Ever since we watched Vikings on Netflix, I’m IN LOVE with Viking architecture 🥰
Be warned: all that has ever been found are the pole-holes! So, all you do see is a reconstruction of what might have been.
@@TorchwoodPandP some paintings and stories give some more descriptions but ya, they built with natural resources and they decomposed
@@TorchwoodPandP Not really true. they extrapolated from other viking settlements all over Scandinavia. So they have a much better idea than just some holes
@@Staroy okay. Thanks for the correction. I have yet to watch the show. Must admit I am highly sceptic.
@@TorchwoodPandP most ruins today that look nice are almost always rebuilt, ww1 and ww2 destroyed most of what ruins had been uncovered and was in good shape so most structures that are ancient and standing are not fully originals
Having followed your channel for years, when I found this episode, I already knew it would be my favourite so far from just the title and picture :)
I have seen/ experienced a smaller but also impressive example in Ribe Denmark. When watching, memories of the smell of the fireplace came back. My family tree goes back to Scandinavia and i feel much like some ancestors have been in such houses. The acoustics, the wood, the haptic of the natural things, the food, the high roof, the artworks, the dimmed light, the colours, the nature, weather and seasons around, crafting, sailing and how everything is arranged around this fireplace - everything together speaks to me in a special, familiar way. Seen much more architechture that had a kind of soul, but in these viking halls I feel at home the most. People just should start building houses like this again.
Oh! That's why they call it "tannin!" It makes sense. ❤
Indeed, now we know why it's called tanning!
I learned so much from this excellent video!
These folks come up with the most ingeneous things...food is great...and sailing...and swords...doesnt get any better...lovely folks.
Thank You, loved this … so interesting. I’ve watched your channel for years and very much appreciate all your family’s works and creativity 🩵
This is a really well made documentary. Also, the guides are excellent.
I passed this museum last year, but didn't have time to stop - there's so much to see on Lofoten's incredible islands, one of the planet's most beautiful regions. This has filled in a lot of information for me so... thanks!
(Lofoten isn't further north than Alaska, by the way - even Nordkapp isn't as far north as Point Barrow.)
@8:24 would you look at that Viking with his earpods, instead of weapons?! Amazing!! 😂 Such _stunningly beautiful_ craftsmanship on everything they've recreated here. Makes you want to rethink our modern building practices of today. We could be doing better for ourselves & nature IF we simply looked to the past & upgraded & little bit along the way. Add in some solar panels, skylights at one end for a green house effect & poof! Year round food production on a very small personal sized scale.
Thanks for sharing all this wonderful long form content. Not once have you been "skimpy" with the length. We can sit, with a cup of coffee (or tea, or water) & just enjoy learning about such uniquely different homes halfway around the world (for some of us).😊 Too many other channels _try_ & fail to cram all of this wondrous adventure, about _our_ human history, into an 8 to10 minute video. They suck the life & soul out of the entire experience. Nope *not* you, not here!😂 YOU have given us what we need, with this refreshing taken on educating us with your channel. Way to go team! Love what you're doing here, New sub! ❤❤❤❤❤
And the people showing demosyrating are also so didactic and patient. A first rate experience !
Wow, this was fascinating - so much so, that the end of the video snuck up on me! What a fantastic place to visit, so much to see and learn about. I'm just in awe... By the way, Kirsten, your shirt was truly beautiful, it really caught my eye - it looked great on you. What an experience you and Nicholas must have had; I'm sure there was much more to your visit to the area that the two of you were able to see and enjoy, too. I know you both work hard, but you also get to see some amazing areas and places. Thanks for sharing this wonderful reconstruction and the talented folks who learn and share the old ways. 😊
Best episode ever! I love all of the history you documented here. Very cool!
This is my most favorite subject for video that you have ever presented. Thank you!
Very very interesting and excellently filmed!! Thank you! 💖
Very interesting video. Informative about Vikings.
Some of my earliest ancestors were from Scandinavia. Mostly Swedish. Always I would like to visit Sweden. 👍
Wow what an incredible place! Breathtaking!
Thank you for this video, it's very informative, and you can feel the love and passion everyone has for the subject!
AMAZING....absolutely glued to the screen and story line!! Know I can't possibly add to the other comments.
Great seeing my ancestors dwelling and living conditions again ! ☺
I was there just a few days ago and it was really marvellous! If you are in the area, you should definetely visit!
Interesting architecture. very interesting on how a people lived
We live in such an amazing world, thank you for sharing
Great video and lovely lively "museum". Interesting to see the creative way the archeologists work.
Why do you write museum with an apostrophe? The Lofotr Viking Museum is actually a museum. In addition to reconstructing the longhouse whose remains were found on the site, there is a collection of objects excavated on the site and in nearby areas. Reconstructed objects are based on archaeological finds elsewhere in the country, and with their help they have recreated an authentic environment that is much more educational than just a collection of objects.
@@ahkkariq7406 Why do you assume I meant something negative? It is just different than any museum I have ever been too.
@@pappelg2639
When you use an apostrophe, you indicate that you are using a word that is not quite correct. In this case, the word museum is completely correct.
@@ahkkariq7406 Oh my god. Get a life man. A traditional museum is far more confined.
@@pappelg2639 Maybe you are the one who needs to get a life. At least you need to expand your horizon.
Fantastic look at an amazing place! Well done again
Wonderful episode! So interesting! Thank you!
I am half Māori from New Zealand and the carving looks very much like that of our traditional Māori meeting houses called "marae". Particularly the entrance way. Was there some influence there? I'm curious as my father is Māori but my mother is Scandinavian and it's so fascinating seeing this 😍
Cool, thanks for sharing.
I'm curious now too
@cleopaehua9337 I've been studying and reading alot and I know that some people won't agree but it's true. Very ancient European, Middle Eastern, Indians, Polynesian have forefathers thats been all over the world interbreeding with different people and its highly likely genetics change over thousands of years migrating and changes
Fascinating! Love these shows!😊
We have a similar dwelling in Newfoundland. The Vikings discovered North America before Columbus.
Yep, Leif “The Happy” about 1024 years ago.
Exactly
@@larrymcknight1933 How did they discover something that was already inhabited by people?
@@tamaracain6980 are you asking about Europeans discovering North America??
@@larrymcknight1933 They never discovered it. Black people was already living here.
I would love to live in a house like this. It’s so beautiful and unique!
It's crazy how similar the patterns and framing on the entrances is to a māori marae!
Wow! Great job. What a fantastic topic. Educational documentary for sure.
Excellent destination. My grandfather grew up on the Lofoten island of Skrova in the 1920s-30s. Pretty sure he was there also during the German occupation from 1940-1945. He used to tell stories about a rough life, times were difficult, fishermen routinely getting lost at sea, etc. But what a place!!
Wonderful; reminders of so much effort but beautiful, delicious and useful results; great to see recreated methods; lucky climate niche.
I live close to Lofoten, but I've never been at this site. Thank you Kirsten.
Any living structure placed 18" below the ground level will remain a constant temperature of 75°, no matter how cold or hot it is outside! Our Dad always did this! We never had to use electric air conditioners or heaters. We had fireplaces but only for asthetics!
We suggest next time you build a house or barn, place it 18" below ground level! Your electric bill will be minimal!
Oh my. Thank you so very much for showing us this wonderful space. Love your channel. Such great content
Always found it interesting that Viking era peoples lived such short lives (where 40 was considered old and they were all dead before 50) and yet they achieved so much in their short time
Children USA, grandparents came
This is a far cry from the marauding,berserker, Viking we are taught .This was outstanding Kirsten.I bet your blood drew you to this trip.
Wow! I really enjoyed this one! Gosh I love your videos! Thanks!
I remember once a long time ago, I was part of such a Clan. In the Clan, I was expected to go with the men to raid and we sailed south toward Germania and West toward Scotland. We were gone for months and we would take part in raids and take people, animals, tools and weapons and any gold but gold was too rare. Only large Castles had gold and we were one ship with 40 men.
After my 30th year, I decided to stop raiding, but the Clan decided that I was weak and to punish me to show an example, I was put in a mine for coal. But I told them that I would gladly stay in the mine and break the rock and bring up the coal if it means I don't have to carry a spear or an axe anymore.
Then after 10 years in the mine, a missionary came to our camp, really the Chief was taken by his folklore and myths and talk of a single God. In the days he was amongst the Clan, he asked about others in the town and he found me by chance talking to some children about the old man in the mine.
He came to me one day and I explained that I was tired of the life of a raider and taking people's valuables and burning their homes and running off their men and taking girls as slaves. And he asked how much longer I was to be made to work in the coal mine and I explained that I had already been in the mine eight years longer than my banishment by choice, giving up my place in the Clan and wife and property and share of the wealth and the land.
He marveled at me, asking if I didn't miss them, my wife my clan and my village? And I said of course, it would pain me most at night as I slept so poorly because of the feeling of desolation, of being empty and alone and cold and dead in this poorly lit and damp mine.
But I also said that I had to decide to become something stronger than just another blind raider partaking in the bounty of capture and the hard life at sea with a broken back and thick skin on my hands and face from the oar and the wind and the sun when it shone and from the cold and the rain that often hid the sun.
But I felt a kind of peace down here in the mine, a place of solace and sanctum, close to the Earth and to the bed that I will take when I am gone. For it's better to live a lonely and hard life without the love of my Clan and family because I have stopped the raiding and the plunder and the suffering I have caused and taken part in. I would rather my old hands be dark with coal that red with blood. I would rather hear the sound of water dripping in the mine than the howl of the wind in the sheet or the cries of those we set upon.
He left me saying that I was special among my Clan for forsaking the destruction of others and taking no part in the destruction and suffering of those people's beyond my home shores.
On my 52 year, I left the mine and went back to the village and sate upon a wood stump and felt the Spring sun upon my face and asked if I could have some broth from the kettle. And the young girl that served me, was my own grandchild that I never knew I had.
Cool story bro. Needs more dragons
I would absolutely love to live in a long house. All warm and snuggly by the fire with food, family and friends - idyllic lifestyle!!!
You're ignoring the constant smoke and darkness
...Idyllic if you want to abide by the chieftains rules and moods
And the rules also meant that the chieftain decided wether af newborn child should live or not, if he meant there was enough food for the child etc. If not it was killed or places out in the wild to die. We are lucky to have contraception nowadays. Imagine being the mother and have to let your child die!
Loving all the people in historic garb!
Incredible men to sail across the sea, super strong mentally physically spiritually to be capable
Thank you for the tour. Fascinating.
Fascinating! I have to visit that longhouse. I imagine how busy they were inside there during the winter; making clothing, sails, cooking. What a huge operation. I wonder what they did with people who got out of control. Maybe they had a "time out" room 😂
Yeah I can only imagine! Being cooped up in a house in an endless winter and darkness must drive even the sanest people crazy at some point
If they got too much out of control they were declared outlaws and were as such “legal game” for everyone. Most outlaws chose to sail to Iceland or Greenland and live there.
Touristy, but very educational, accurate, and well-communicated interpretatioon. I only wish the boat were a more accurate full-scale reconstruction. And that the fire pit in the longhouse ran the entire length of the building, as original.
Yes, I thought that they could at least have marked the long fireplace with a low stone setting
I actually don't think it was so smoky since 1. theres an hole in the roof right above the fire where the smoke can escape and 2. the ceiling is so high that the smoke would go up and gather there. And you can see that in reconstructions of other viking buildings that they are not at smoky as you might expect.
This is not a round-house, which is round and found in England and Ireland.
And scotland
That is why they said long house.
@diamond peridot - in the introduction she said roundhouse twice.
@@lapsedluddite3381 She sounds like an american. It could be the exclamation.
And the Navajo round house.😊
The ingeniousness seemed to know no bounds... like holy moly no wonder they took over England.
Really enjoy the format you are using. The walking about & asking about this or that... very relaxed & natural. Friendly. (And you have very interesting voice. IMHO.)
is tannin man single? Asking for a friend...
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He sounds French?
I really enjoyed this also, especially being of Norwegian heritage. Thank you.
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Hello from Ireland, very interesting crafts and artful labour,the scenery is amazing too.
Thank you for that ! I didn't read about this discovery anywhere !
Neat, it reminds me of the indigenous longhouse reproduction built in Ridgefield, Washington
Ah, the origins of veg-tanned leather. Nice work.
Great video. That guide dude has some awesome hair. I like Viking history.
Thank you for making these great videos!
Interesting, With a building that large you would assume there would be other foundations near by. The amount of work to construct that in ancient times would be nearly impossible for a small group of people to achieve especially in the short amount of time they had in-between brutally cold weather. Got to remember every single log had to be chopped and hand honed and transported to the location. Digging the foundation alone would have been a monumental task as well with just picks and shovels.
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I love this wool clothing!