http://myrkur.tripod.com/longhouses.htm
(you too can build you orn longhouse)
http://www.bownet.org/cyberbus/Vikings/viking.htm
(I think this one may be ripped off from a children's educational
book).
These show doors both in the short and long axes. I suspect that the placement varied, with the long axis placement being more common when the byre was not a seperate building.
I always recommend:
How Would You Survive as a Viking?
by Jacqueline Morley 0531153029 becuase it ahs great cutaway pics of
Viking life. Children's books are always great for visual resources,
and end to concentrate on life as a member of the culture would have
seen it (daily life, the farming calendar) and not scholarly
arguments.
Ian
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