The Vikings were an incredible persons, but life was very hard for them. Every year, many Vikings died from influenza, or starved to death because of food spoilage or insufficient food stores to last through the long, severe winters. The Vikings used their life style to these winters. The "longhouse" was "long" since it absolutely was easier to slice down an entire tree and move it in to a long, main fireplace opening, than to chop it into logs. Makes sense, doesn't it?

Residents of the longhouse had "sleeping cupboards" and long start benches across the sides of the longhouse. In cold weather, couples closed themselves up inside their asleep cupboards - a loft type region with doors that shut - to gain warmth from another's human body heat. There clearly was small privacy of course, but bodily intimacy was considered a schedule aspect of daily life viking axe for sale .

In your kitchen of a Viking longhouse, foods such as yogurt, grain, and dried fish were saved in drums buried in to the ground and included with wooden lids that have been floor-level. The coldness of the floor helped to maintain the meals, and being in the ground, significantly room was conserved in the kitchen. A challenge many early persons had was finding food to last over the winter. What does one do with a big mammoth, for example? It can't be enjoyed all at once.

The Vikings had a silly solution: They drawn the mammoth into a lake or river, and measured it down such that it remained on the bottom of the lake. The water temperature and the ice over maintained the beef until spring, when it had been brought out and roasted for a massive celebration. The normal landscape of the Vikings - rugged lands, steep hills and fjords, and long winters - made agriculture a challenge.