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Viire Pajuste and her Viking Age experiment receives good coverage in the Estonian media. Photo: Anna Kolossova

Viking age experiment

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A slideshow demonstrating the process of constructing an Iron Age loghouse in Rõuge, Estonia.

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

Photo: Anna Kolossova

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Transporting logs the Iron Age way.

Photo: Anna Kolossova

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Lifting and placing logs requires teamwork.

Photo: Anna Kolossova

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A reinvented measurement tool with a level.

Photo: Anna Kolossova

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Someone else should be helping up there too.

Photo: Anna Kolossova

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Drawing wisdom from books and experts.

Photo: Anna Kolossova

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Birch bark is used to insulate the house.

Photo: Anna Kolossova

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

Photo: Viire Pajuste

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Pretty close to the Iron Age look.

Photo: Viire Pajuste

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Building a ladder from branches to climb the walls.

Photo: Viire Pajuste

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

Photo: Viire Pajuste

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

Photo: Anna Kolossova