August is really a specific month at Lofotr whilst the museum remembers the annual Viking event, which extends to 5 fun-filled days. During this time, booths, games and markets is likely to be collection up. The memorial will even coordinate shows, workshops, struggle demonstrates and various actions! If you don't feel like having a huge food, you are able to always seize a gentle treat and a glass or two at the seaside Skjeltersjådurante café ;.You might arrange your own transport to Lofotr Viking Museum. You can even choose to get the public coach line that operates between Leknes and Slovlvaer. 

The Vikings were an incredible people, but life was very difficult for them. Every year, many Vikings died from influenza, or starved to demise as a result of food spoilage or insufficient food stores to last through the extended, hard winters. The Vikings used their life style to these winters. The "longhouse" was "long" since it had been more straightforward to chop down a whole pine and pull it right into a extended, key fireplace pit, than to process it in to logs. Is practical, doesn't it?

Residents of the longhouse had "asleep cupboards" and long open benches over the sides of the longhouse. In cold temperatures, couples shut themselves up inside their sleeping cupboards - a loft form region with opportunities that shut - to achieve warmth from another's human body heat. There was little solitude of course, but bodily closeness was regarded a routine aspect of everyday life.

In the kitchen of a Viking longhouse, ingredients such as yogurt, grain, and dried fish were located in barrels hidden in to the floor and protected with wooden covers that were floor-level. The coldness of the bottom helped to protect the food, and being in the floor, much place was conserved in the kitchen. An issue many early people had was finding food to last over the winter. What does one do with a big mammoth, as an example? It can't be eaten all at once.