May is really a special month at Lofotr because the memorial celebrates the annual Viking event, which extends to 5 fun-filled days. During this time period, booths, activities and markets will soon be set up. The memorial will even organize events, workshops, fight demonstrates and various activities! In the event that you don't feel just like having a huge food, you can always grab a mild snack and a drink at the seaside Skjeltersjåen café ;.You may organize your own transportation to Lofotr Viking Museum. You can also opt to take the public bus line that runs between Leknes and Slovlvaer. 

The Vikings were a fantastic persons, but living was very hard for them. Annually, several Vikings died from influenza, or starved to demise as a result of food spoilage or inadequate food stores to last throughout the extended, severe winters. The Vikings adapted their life style to these winters. The "longhouse" was "long" since it had been better to slice down a complete pine and pull it right into a long, central fire pit, than to process it into logs. Makes sense, doesn't it Viking axe .

Residents of the longhouse had "asleep cupboards" and extended start benches across the sides of the longhouse. In winter, couples closed themselves up inside their asleep cupboards - a loft form area with gates that closed - to achieve warmth from another's human body heat. There clearly was little solitude needless to say, but physical closeness was regarded a schedule part of everyday life.

In your kitchen of a Viking longhouse, meals such as for example yogurt, feed, and dry fish were saved in drums hidden in to the bottom and covered with wooden tops which were floor-level. The coldness of the bottom served to preserve the foodstuff, and being in the ground, significantly place was conserved in the kitchen. A problem several early people had was getting food to last over the winter. What does one do with a large mammoth, for instance? It can't be enjoyed all at once.