For my final idea I have decided to make a Viking village located in Iceland. This village is not a traditional village but a replica of one. It was built for a film set based around Viking life. The village is 5 km East from Höfn. So it’s a little bit of a walk to get there, but the journey introduces you to the habitats that the Vikings lived in back then. Vikings built their villages beneath a mountain, often in its shadow. Vikings discovered Iceland in the ninth century and when they did it was still inhabited this means that the village is supposed to represent one that was built shortly after they visited Iceland. The buildings in the village mimic the architecture of the period perfectly and the interior of the buildings looks indistinguishable from real Viking architecture. This is a good source to study as it shows what life was like back then but on the other hand it’s a replica so it is not completely perfect and wasn’t built by the Vikings so it was built with a different mind-set and moral. When Vikings visited Iceland they had to have women on the ship too just so they can start developing and establishing a civilization.
Unit 10 