Viking age experiment

Viire Pajuste and her Viking Age experiment receives good coverage in the Estonian media.

Photo: Anna Kolossova

Transporting logs the Iron Age way.

Photo: Anna Kolossova

Lifting and placing logs requires teamwork.

Photo: Anna Kolossova

A reinvented measurement tool with a level.

Photo: Anna Kolossova

Someone else should be helping up there too.

Photo: Anna Kolossova

Drawing wisdom from books and experts.

Photo: Anna Kolossova

Birch bark is used to insulate the house.

Photo: Anna Kolossova

Most work is done using 9 axes, which are copies of the Iron Age ones.

Photo: Viire Pajuste

Pretty close to the Iron Age look.

Photo: Viire Pajuste

Building a ladder from branches to climb the walls.

Photo: Viire Pajuste

Osier is used to weave ropes for measuring the house’s diagonals.

Photo: Viire Pajuste

The floor of the house is made from earth and clay.

Photo: Anna Kolossova