Borg

This weekend my parents and brother Thomas returned from a 9000km fishing trip to North Cape and had some stories to share.

The image above shows the recreation of a long-house at a Viking Museum in a small village called Borg on the Lofoten Islands. It reveals interesting aspects of viking society. For instance in this case they didn't build several small houses for each family but created one big building (approximately 9m high and 83m long) where the horde shared living quarters, stables and a banquet hall.

If Borg sounds familiar to you in a different context, read on about how script writers of Star Trek were inspired by viking history.

Further information:

• Vikingmuseet pa Borg

Recommended Readings:

The Vikings, Else Roesdahl
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings, John Haywood
The Prose Edda translated with introduction by Jesse L. Byock, Snorri Sturluson
The Hávamál (Sayings of the High One - in Swedish, Icelandic, and English versions)
The Rigsthula (The Lay of Rig)
Njal's Saga
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

via http://depts.washington.edu/scand/vikings.html