Daily Life & Culture The Viking Longhouse: Life Under One Roof
The Viking longhouse was home, barn, and workshop all at once. How it was built, who lived inside, and what excavations in Iceland, Denmark, and Norway reveal.
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Iceland
4 articles in the Nordweg archive deal with Iceland. Collected here so you can follow the thread instead of searching for it.
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Daily Life & Culture 
Recipes How to Make Skyr: A Recipe from the Viking Age
How to make skyr at home: an easy recipe with just 3 ingredients, plus the real story of the Viking dairy that sailed to Iceland and survived 1,000 years.
Daily Life & Culture The Thing: The People's Assembly of the Vikings
Fact-checking the Viking Thing: was the assembly really an early democracy, could women speak, and is Iceland's Althing truly the world's oldest parliament?
Runes & Symbols Vegvísir: The Runic Compass of the Vikings
The Vegvísir is marketed as a Viking compass, but the symbol first appears in 19th-century Iceland. Here is the real story behind this famous rune-like sign.
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