When I was in college, the archaeology club had t-shirts printed "Coprolitic analysis: it's a shitty job but someone has to do it" ... The Dean was not amused, but the professors loved them, and so did our fellow students when they asked what the shirts meant and we told them. You can learn so much from a person's poo.
I was just thinking about that person, whoever they were, and will probably make a silent toast to them on the next "remember your ancestors" day... I mean, imagine being remembered more than 1,000 years after your death, by probably your most uncomfortable and embarrassing moments (and thinking at the time: 'at least no one will ever know'). For their sake, I will remember them as a skilled craftsman who knew how to tell a good joke.
Reminds me of my favorite way to troll my students. I have them pass around some cut and polished dinosaur coprolites and ask them what type of fossil they think they are. Then I show them a full one. Some brave soul eventually says it looks like poop. My excuse is it drives home the process of mineralization transforming what was once there.
I remain astounded how much stuff remains, but also at the boundary setting that persisted through the centuries. Someone lays out the property boundaries, builds a house and living space, and gets on with life. Over time, people continue to build new buildings on top of what was there, but still "color within the lines" architecturally. "Yeah, this is an adequate amount of space to live and craft in. No need to adjust. Thanks people who came before me for setting the template!" Maybe people wanted to change it up, so they purchased the lots around them and expanded, but still kept to the predefined boundaries. People are fascinating.
Agreed! That is something I especially enjoy about the Time Team episodes too, how Stewart Ainsworth is able to deduce former abbey boundaries from where the oldest roads run, or how the names of fields in continuous use since pre-Roman times may reflect a religious pilgrimage route, or how the former presence of a mill or fishpond can be deduced from the lay of the land & where the streams run? It's very Sherlockian & so fascinating to watch!
I’m learning more and more about the study of landscape archaeology and how those markers of field and farm/tenement boundaries persist. I had no idea that they found such things in cities such as York and Dublin. I do have a question. There was much Roman trade in the Iron Age. We visited Caernavon and the legionnaire quarters and there were what seems like the same toilets arrangements as what you’re drawings showed in the Your Viking tenements. How much technology was traded to Germanic tribes in the Roman civitas trading hubs on the northern Danube that made it into Viking homes eventually?
@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 I agree completely. I live in the U.S., and I haven't seen any of the new 'Team's' episodes yet, but I love watching the Time Team's older episodes, with Tony, Phil, Mick, and the others. From Time Team, I've learned quite a bit about the processes and everything, that are involved in archaeology/anthropology digs and discoveries. I love learning about the rich history behind the artifacts/ruins that they find. It's all quite amazing, the things they've discovered. Their findings are an absolute treasure. 🙂🌱
@@Greye13 Last weekend the latest episode was released in 3 parts on RUclips, Anglo-Saxon Cemetery is the title. They set out to preserve a cemetery in danger of disappearing due to agriculture and they find.... something completely different - mostly thanks to Stewart's walking! Other than the ones that passed away, the only ones missing were Phil and Tony. Even Pottery Paul was back! And they had a Mick Aston doll on the table in the tent... This was by far the best of the newer episodes, although i found them all interesting - this one definately had that old Time Team vibe.
Turf houses were built by the first Ukrainians in the Canadian prairies in the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. I have visited them at the living museum near Edmonton. There was a hole dug and the turfs were kept to make the roof. They were remarkably cozy. I wonder if the long viking hearth was used for heat retention. All those stones when they got hot would continue to radiate heat for hours.
Ah, yes, like a forerunner of a Russian stove. Many vikings settled in the Kiev region of Ukraine because it was on their trade route to Constantinople.
Here in Kansas, many of the settlers started with "dugout" houses, partially (usually three sides) cut into the side of a hill and then turfed over with a sod roof. They are a very practical sort of house where there is a lack of large structural timber. The low profile is also wonderful in a land plagued by tornadoes. Unfortunately, most family groups replaced the 'soddies' with a frame built house as soon as financially possible. On my grandparent's farm, the original dugout was still there, converted to livestock housing, but it was still so nice to go in and cool off in the summer.
This is fascinating! Were the settlers copying the indigenous people? I'm sure many of them were using tipis, but I'm wondering if they left stockpiles in these sorts of structures
@@sarahwatts7152 The Native American tribes in this area were semi-nomadic, but their winter villages often were earth dome extended family houses. The settlers tended to more rectangle shaped houses and lived in them year round. Same materials, but different architecture.
@@pufthemajicdragon Compared to the mountains, yes. and I see the little emoji 😃 But you really only need about six feet of elevation, which you can find along streams even in the western part of the state, where it really IS flat.
@@sarahwatts7152 Most of the Native tribes in the area now known as Kansas, were semi nomadic. They used Earth lodges for winter wherever they had wind protection such as an area of woods. Of course, the land used for corporate farming at present so there's no way to see what they land looked like pre-colonization. The different tribes followed the Buffalo herds seasonally so I the summer they used semi permanent lodges that basically provided shelter from rain and sun but allowed air to freely circulate. They were mostly hunter gatherers.
When you were describing dirt houses, they sound exactly like a Devon cobb longhouse. Made entirely of mud and horse hair. They have rounded corners to the houses and this makes for a very soft appearance to the house but makes it difficult for furniture placement. These days they are often painted, and for,preference with lime wash as it allows the house to breathe where as you sometimes get sweaty interior walls if the outside is painted in a waterproof paint. If limewash is applied the whole house will be dry inside and out. The chimney is often stuck on the outside of the house. One for each room often. They look like round bumps on the outside of the house. Called longhouses as they are often one room front to back with a back connecting corridor. There are indeed second floors and a thatched roof though many are now tiled. Have lived in a couple in my life time. They are indeed very cozy with the walls being 3 to 4 foot think warm in winter and cool in summer. . Not wonderful for mobile reception, and you often have to stand in the window for any reception at all. Originally the had mud floors but now have all sorts, wood, tiles, carpets. . The one thing you learn very quickly is if there is anything like wall paper or tile stuck on the inside wall, never under any circumstances try to take them off just add to them tiling over or papering over. If you try to take a tile off you will often make huge holes in the interior walls , sometimes all the way through to the exterior. As I found out to my horror when I didn’t like the tiles over the bathroom sink and decided to remove them . A massive hole appeared all the way to the,outside and once the builder arrived , he tutted and said no never do that. The rooms just get smaller and walls thicker in cobb houses. 😀 Basically if you want to live in a Viking house , try a Devon cobb longhouse 😀
Architecture is always interesting to me because you can get such a good understanding of how daily life might have been by having a look at how they're built, where the cooking fire was settled, the materials, etc. Super hype about this vid!
Sometimes provides some intrresting clues or confirmations of their metaphysical beliefs too, in terms of aligning entrances with certain cardinal directions/the sunrise, burying apotropaic fetishes under thresholds, indications of veneration of the communal hearth etc...? I'm a big fan of material archaeology as a way of learning more about the past, not relying solely on written records, which can be scant, missing or severely biased? Any items found generally still require a fair degree of interpretation, but their orientation in the landscape & proximity to certain centres of activity etc can really tell one so much!
“Vernacular architecture” is what you’re talking about. It’s such a fascinating rabbit hole to go down, and it makes you realize how un-suited our modern western style houses are to most of the environments we build them in.
I like to see how small the doors were in ancient buildings, as it hints at the size of our ancestors; unless they were built small to keep the heat in.
@@euansmith3699 That's something I noted on visiting the oldest house in Scotland (Traquair) as its front door, which you would expect to be grand in the home of a Stuart family, was about the height of mine (made in 1975). It only made sense after seeing upstairs. The people had to have been much shorter to have got through doorways with hats or bonnets on.
My brother and I were talking about how Viking characters are often dressed as modern bikers in movies. He said that he wanted to open a shop called the Biking Viking.
Hello Jimmy! In Canada turf houses were built when people were "settling" the prairie provinces. They were called soddies because they were built from the sod.
In my Alternate-Universe daydreams (if I had the opportunity to take a different path at a different fork in the proverbial road), my dream home would be pit house: protected from hurricanes, a constant temperature of ~13 C/55 F year-round, before adding any additional heating, And as a wheelchair user, I could have a spiral ramp going around the outside walls, that could be a lot of fun. ...Also, I could play a TARDIS-like trick on folks ;-)
As a Scandinavian, I'd suspect that any house where the owners could afford it would have had at least a half floor loft for storage if not a full second floor.
One of my favourite weird archaeology facts is that only an archaeologist will be excited about finding a Stone Age rubbish dump (a midden, in other words). You can learn a lot from a person from their rubbish, so what they valued and what they threw away, what they ate, etc. When I was a kid and didn’t clean my room, my mum would say “go clean your room, it looks like a midden!”
14:10 I got a bit of a shiver when you talked about the crafting materials left behind. Just makes the people come alive as real individuals. There was a real person who could have said, "Yeah, one of my neighbors carves amber and the lady two doors down does plant dyeing." I just love those personal details that remain in the archaeology.
Textile tools and equipment are highly portable. Even a full sized vertical loom is pretty easily moved about, even when dressed. Yes, it would probably take two or three people to lug it out into a yard or light exterior sheltered space. The basic activities of fibre prep, combing, spinning and even the use of a vertical loom could have been accomplished either outside or near a door because decent lighting is really important. However, it’s only natural to always find the items in the remains in an interior location, because that’s where it was probably stored when not in use. As a spinner, I much prefer to work with the best lighting I can get, but when I’m not working, everything is tucked away. My loom is by a window. Of course in the winter months, I work indoors, but decent lighting is always a premium part of textile work, because you really need to see what you’re doing.
I think turf houses and pit houses are due for a comeback; they seem like they'd be really great for natural insulation, which would be a good way of adapting to climate change. Higher temperatures are gonna require more air conditioning, which will lead to more power consumption, which leads to more carbon emissions, so why not build a house that doesn't NEED aircon? Plus, they'd look nice, who doesn't want to live in a real-life Hobbit house? Cozy af
Pit houses in particular have a fairly large number of people trying to get them to be used, except they have a few issues. Ventilation tends to be poor, they have little natural light, and they tend to be very damp. Now, all of these are issues you can address, but a house above ground it easier, cheaper, and safer. I personally have always wanted a Hobbit hole.
a very interesting example of the evolution of our perspective towards early iron age homes are the reconstructed iron age farms in Norway Stavanger (which are totally worth checking out) part of the reconstructed houses are still from the 1980s while some of them have had a makeover. the newer houses are higher and the interior walls have been whitewashed, creating a much more humane and more livable environment compared to the much lower darker almost cave like reconstructions of the 1980s. they even experimented with some paint on the white walls and have lots of woven blankets and other decorative things hanging from the wall. thanks to this makeover the farms went from cold dark and damp holes in the ground to comfortable warm and cozy farmsteads.
Thank you, I have been wondering about this! People in rural Norway could be found living in what were literally called smoke parlors ("røykstuer", with a sort of enclosed oven whose thick walls retained and radiated heat) or hearth parlors ("årestuer", with simply an open hearth) heated in this manner and vented through a hole in the roof well into the 19th century. I believe the absence of a chimney precludes an upper story as this would be entirely smoke-filled.
@@knutanderswik7562 I bet that was the origin of smoked food: hanging it up where the smoke kept insects away, and eventually realising that food that had been smoked kept longer even after it was taken down, and that the flavour could actually be rather nice.
Salish longhouses in North America were designed to use the rafters to smoke their fish supply for the winter, makes sense to have a similar idea for a similar set of natural resources!
For other americans like myself.....UK town houses dont nessesity include shared party wall, unlike american town houses.....i got super excited by the idea of multifamily structures from the title but nope its just excedingly cool close packed simgle family houses..... on the other hand, having a bunch of houses with shared walls probably increaded the risk of large fires so it makes more sence this way. Really cool video though
I remember being shown the Lloyd's Bank Coprolite when we went on a school trip to York as a kid. Strangely enough, the Viking Poo was the highlight of the day for most 10-year-olds, irrespective of its archaeological significance
I'm surprised to hear you speak of half a dozen people living in a longhouse. To me 6 people sounds like parents with children, not an extended family with grand-parents, their kids and their grand-kids.
@@TheWelshViking I never said it was inaccurate - you certainly know more than I do about the topic - just that I'm surprised. I honestly know nothing about the sizes of families at the time, and I have a hard time imagining how many people lived in an average village, small town or large city at the time. Is a typical village a dozen houses with an average of 6 people in each? Or is it like 50 houses? Just looking to learn.
I enjoyed the video, Jimmy. This is a great topic of discussion. I always love the places you choose to record your videos. They're really quite lovely. Best wishes.🌱
They have started recreating a pithouse in Eiríksstaðir, Iceland. The people behind it did a deep dive into pithouses in Iceland an believe that they were often focused on textile manufacturing and the recreation is gonna focus on that 😊
I've heard that association, the idea being that apparently the higher humidity of an earth-sheltered workspace keeps the fibers of the yarns more flexible and elastic for easier spinning and weaving.
I am always impressed by the resourcefulness & efficienct use of resources of ancient/iron age peoples. A central indoor hearth makes perfect sense for heating as well as cooking. In the evening it would be a source of light as well. (Not sure I would want walls made from manure since I'm sure the smell was quite pungent whenever it was damp)
Just found your channel. Very nice content. Great use of reference materials. Excellent job making history understandable. Keep up the super work. Binging your catalog as we speak.
Properly made "open fire" house isn't _that_ smokey, I'd say. The smoke kinda gets pulled out through the opening up in the roof (when it works properly). You do smell like smoke after staying in a building like this, but it's not like you can't breathe or like there's really even visible smoke. Also this is why you use dry wood. If ever in Finland get in contact with a group called Sommelo, and they might show you a few recreations of iron age (viking age) type buildings typical to Finland and surrounding areas. These are located in the capital, Helsinki. They are a group of non-profit volunteers and history enthusiasts, so if they give you a private tour, give them a small donation to help with keeping the place in shape. If you get very lucky you might get to see them building a new roof, making iron age pottery, cooking authentic dinners "viking" style etc. or participate and learn this stuff yourself. *Oi, Jimmy! If you visit Finland sometime I can set this up!* 😀 There's also a recreation of a viking long house and a "Viking center" in a place called Rosala near Turku.
My husband and I were walking those York wall tops a couple months ago on a trip across the Pond to visit his mum - and I recognized your filming location immediately! And a couple years back, we were in Dublin - but Dublinia wasn’t open yet. The Jorvik Viking Centre Museum has been in my bucket list since it was first built; incredibly well done, down to “smell-a-vision” (and yes, we saw The Poo!). My only fuss about the whole trip, was the near total lack of ANYTHING with the white rose badge. For goodness sakes, you’d expect to find those all over the place for American tourists to take back home…..
Lovely video, made me smile several times! 😀 It was interesting to hear you mention trelleborgs, in Sweden we have a town called Trelleborg and there they built a quarter of the trelleborg that was excavated and it is open for visitors.The Valheim-picture was also nice to see! 😍
This video made me really wish I could visit a living history museum that focuses on this historical time period. I live in southern New England, and our closest one portrays rural life from the 1790s to the 1830s. It's absolutely fascinating! This past October we took a tour of the village herb garden, then ended up having a wonderful hour and a half long conversation with the interpreter who gave it. I would absolutely LOVE to check out a viking age version!
I'd imagine that part of the point of such a large hearth (on top from all the "doing different things in different areas" that Jimmy mentioned) was simply as a sort of radiator: earth (or clay), on top of being insulating, stores a lot of heat & then releases it pretty slowly & steadily.
I just came back from a great ringing weekend in York - I'm fairly sure you cycled past me turning right in front of the Minster late Saturday afternoon. You had headphones on or I would have accosted you to say thank you for your channel in person.
Oh this was super interesting, hadn't heard about those small town houses before. The daily life of those who lived before us, to me, is always much more intriguing than war etc. I do feel like I really have to visit York one day. :)
Brilliant video, thank you. I think it's time I revisited the museum in Dublin again, apparently the Dublin tenements you mention are now under concrete with the DCU headquarters on top. Next time I pass by I'll imagine the tenements that used to be there.
The houses sound a bit like old time Finnish cellars: you dig a downward sliding hole. Then you line the walls with rocks, and use rocks to build steps down. Make a roof from rocks and wood, and put the ground you dug up, back on top of the roof. They look like small mound of rocks, with grass and moss growing on top.
ok, now i legit want a pithouse cottage complete with the floor drain and oak walls. Those look so cozy and nice! People of the past sure knew how to do things effectively even with limited sources. Who cares about glass windows
"In a hole in the ground there lived a Viking. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Viking-hole, and that means comfort."
I knew when I saw a picture of my favorite Skyrim mod I was going to be in for a ride :D This was absolutely fascinating! And now I want to make a pit house in Valheim lol
I remember one of the Laura Ingalls books mentioning that the Norwegian builder of their sod house had whitewashed the interior. It wasn't paneled inside, he'd appearantly just whitewashed the sods themselves. I've always wondered how that worked
I Spent many happy days livingin a pit style house not far from york at the museum of farming. cozy and a lot less cow poo required for the walls. the stone base of the firepit acts like a giant storage heater, we found it impossible to sleep on the loft in the roof due to the Smoke.
I went to the Jorvik Viking Museum last September and saw the giant poo! I'm going to Dublin in December. I plan on taking a walking tour of Viking Dublin. Definitely checking out the archeology museum because it's free.
I'm doing a cross country trip this autumn to Prince Edward Island. One of the places I plan to visit is L’Anse aux Meadows where they found like just one Turfhouse lol
Another great video. Completely unrelated but wondering if you know anything about the battle of Bryn Glas/Pilleth and the Glyndŵr uprising, I drove past the site a few weeks ago and looked it up knowing nothing of it. Everyone knows about William Wallace and the Scottish uprising but I'd imagine no-one knows about the Welsh one, I'd love a video in your informative style
I subbed your channel without watching a single video. By your name alone I knew your content would interest me. And it does -- but I had no idea you'd also be adorable.😅Even when you make that farty noise. I'll be drawing viking tenement houses all this rainy afternoon thanks to you, and for me there isn't a better way to spend such a day. Thanks for the fascinating lesson and inspiration. I may binge you. Don't be nervous.😉
In English medieval halls that were heated by a central fire, there were high, open windows that created an air flow to vent the smoke. When tended by an expert, a fire will give off less smoke and create more heat. Thatch will let smoke out while keeping rain out as well. You hang the pork in the rafters to smoke for preservation. Thus, what we would consider a problem, they saw as an asset.
Jimmy, please explain what you mean by a 'metalled' walkway with cobbles. I have never seen a cobbled walkway dissected nor have I read about the process, but it sounds like you have and you know a secret or two about it. Could you please be so kind as to elucidate? My curiosity is gnawing me to a nub here.
As a history enthusiast, I love your videos. German here, and may I correct you: it's "Grubenhaus", plural Grubenhäuser, from Grube: pit. Umlaute are tempting;) Some ppl do have "Grübchen" though, these are dimples :D
Textile work happening indoors makes perfect sense to me, because yeah, you don't have natural light, or at least not as much of it, but you also don't have the wind tangling up your work and it's cleaner indoors
Has anyone advanced or tested the Hypothesis that the Viking A-Frame tents may have been made to mimic Pit houses? Obviously you wouldn’t dig a pit if you were just stopping overnight, but if you are overwintering, I imagine throwing digging a rectilinear pit and throwing an A-frame tent over it would be like a home away from home.
I mean, there’s nothing stopping you from doing so! I’ll see if I cam get permission at an event. I think one of the main theories is that the base allowed it to be pitched on a ship, which seems less likely tbh
As you so carefully described, a Trelleborg is an earthen embankment in a circular formation lined with a wooden palisade. The name probably comes from "trällor" wooden logs and not to be confused with "träl" which is the old norse word for slave.
FYI, current-day modern city dwelling people have worms too. It would be more unusual for a person today to NOT have some parasites in our digestive tracts than to have some. What's of note here is the AMOUNT of parasites in someone's poop. A heavy worm burden indicates poor health since 'parasites' population will explode if the host's homeostasis and immune system is out of whack from malnutrition, overwork, poor diet, etc and unable to keep the parasite population in check. But normally, like other microbes part of our microbiome, we have evolved to, and continue to live in balance with them. I guess you could say even worms are nuanced lol.
Thank you so much for this video! I'm planning on teaching my elementary school class about medieval houses, and having them build their own wattle and daub house with sticks and clay, and I'm trying to make it as historically accurate as possible. This video was super helpful! Do you happen to know how wattle and daub houses were affixed to the ground? Were the walls build on a stone layer, or were the posts just stuck into the ground then the wattle woven around them, or something else?
There’s a couple of links that show some nice post holes that held posts that supported wattle walls in many cases. Should be an easy way for the kids to make theirs! :)
@@TheWelshViking Thank you!!! Your links are amazing. Some of the terminology went a bit over my head (like "pile-cluster"), but the pictures and descriptions are super helpful (and really cool to see)!
The way historical peoples have used architectural engineering & social cohesion to manage things like heating & insulation in a low-tech era never ceases to impress me... Honestly, these largely subterranean or turf-cut collective residences would do a far better job than my current flat in terms of heating efficiency! Makes sense at a time when cutting firewood or turves entailed a lot of time & effort away from vital things like food production, and the climate was much cooler as well.
I noticed that old houses in the UK had a much lower ratio of window to wall area than modern houses. From the 1930's to 1980's windows enlarged to almost the whole height and width of the wall, along with "brutalist" architecture. That resulted in flats that were hot in summer and cold in winter, and expensive to heat. No air-con, of course. New houses have smaller windows, so it seems lessons have been learned by the architects.
I really wish we had these kinds of sites closer than a 20 hour drive from where I live. I’d love to get the chance to go take a look in a medieval long house or a Viking age city
Didn't people probably bring their tools home/in at night when they were done working and that's why tools etc were found in the house even though they probably worked outside in the sunlight..?
So for many years Jimmy, I thought that a really good type of living quarters would be an earth house. Much like the structures you're talking about. The temp inside is rather stable because you're underground, The only problem is to keep the moisture level stable. Lighting can be accomplished with vertical ports to the top or roof. Anyhow, I thought that building it in a hill facing South. The Southern wall could be made of glass. So Jimmy are you single? You're very attractive BTW.
Okay but I'm a full time Viking and my wife is a weaver and part time social influencer so which type of house can provide us with benches, a loo, and a short walk to the beach all for less than I pay on my monthly eyeliner supplies?
Oh auto-subs, he said "terraced housing", not "terrorist housing". It's a shame they can't let users suggest corrections to auto-subs, you could use AI to compare the suggested corrections to the rest of the transcript, and trained transcripts for additional context, to incrementally improve both the subs on individual videos, but also improve the generated subs on future videos.
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Imagine the only archaeological evidence of your life being the largest human coprolite ever found.
It took so much self control not to scream laugh at this.
incredible
Imagine that by using toilets and waste treatment systems, we'll never have a chance to beat that record. 😂
Literally known for the shit you left behind.
The only archeological evidence that will be left of us if we keep going will be all the trash
When I was in college, the archaeology club had t-shirts printed "Coprolitic analysis: it's a shitty job but someone has to do it" ... The Dean was not amused, but the professors loved them, and so did our fellow students when they asked what the shirts meant and we told them. You can learn so much from a person's poo.
I was just thinking about that person, whoever they were, and will probably make a silent toast to them on the next "remember your ancestors" day... I mean, imagine being remembered more than 1,000 years after your death, by probably your most uncomfortable and embarrassing moments (and thinking at the time: 'at least no one will ever know'). For their sake, I will remember them as a skilled craftsman who knew how to tell a good joke.
Reminds me of my favorite way to troll my students. I have them pass around some cut and polished dinosaur coprolites and ask them what type of fossil they think they are. Then I show them a full one. Some brave soul eventually says it looks like poop. My excuse is it drives home the process of mineralization transforming what was once there.
Coprolite: why yes, you can polish a turd.
What do you do with a constipated Mathematician?
Give them a pencil and let them work it out themself.
Speech Therapist T Shirt : SLPs do it orally.
I remain astounded how much stuff remains, but also at the boundary setting that persisted through the centuries. Someone lays out the property boundaries, builds a house and living space, and gets on with life. Over time, people continue to build new buildings on top of what was there, but still "color within the lines" architecturally. "Yeah, this is an adequate amount of space to live and craft in. No need to adjust. Thanks people who came before me for setting the template!" Maybe people wanted to change it up, so they purchased the lots around them and expanded, but still kept to the predefined boundaries. People are fascinating.
Agreed! That is something I especially enjoy about the Time Team episodes too, how Stewart Ainsworth is able to deduce former abbey boundaries from where the oldest roads run, or how the names of fields in continuous use since pre-Roman times may reflect a religious pilgrimage route, or how the former presence of a mill or fishpond can be deduced from the lay of the land & where the streams run? It's very Sherlockian & so fascinating to watch!
I’m learning more and more about the study of landscape archaeology and how those markers of field and farm/tenement boundaries persist. I had no idea that they found such things in cities such as York and Dublin.
I do have a question. There was much Roman trade in the Iron Age. We visited Caernavon and the legionnaire quarters and there were what seems like the same toilets arrangements as what you’re drawings showed in the Your Viking tenements. How much technology was traded to Germanic tribes in the Roman civitas trading hubs on the northern Danube that made it into Viking homes eventually?
@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 I agree completely. I live in the U.S., and I haven't seen any of the new 'Team's' episodes yet, but I love watching the Time Team's older episodes, with Tony, Phil, Mick, and the others. From Time Team, I've learned quite a bit about the processes and everything, that are involved in archaeology/anthropology digs and discoveries. I love learning about the rich history behind the artifacts/ruins that they find. It's all quite amazing, the things they've discovered. Their findings are an absolute treasure. 🙂🌱
@@mayanscaper the toilets would have been still in use in most of Europe. People still needed to poop when the Romans dispersed.
@@Greye13 Last weekend the latest episode was released in 3 parts on RUclips, Anglo-Saxon Cemetery is the title. They set out to preserve a cemetery in danger of disappearing due to agriculture and they find.... something completely different - mostly thanks to Stewart's walking! Other than the ones that passed away, the only ones missing were Phil and Tony. Even Pottery Paul was back! And they had a Mick Aston doll on the table in the tent... This was by far the best of the newer episodes, although i found them all interesting - this one definately had that old Time Team vibe.
Turf houses were built by the first Ukrainians in the Canadian prairies in the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. I have visited them at the living museum near Edmonton. There was a hole dug and the turfs were kept to make the roof. They were remarkably cozy.
I wonder if the long viking hearth was used for heat retention. All those stones when they got hot would continue to radiate heat for hours.
Ah, yes, like a forerunner of a Russian stove. Many vikings settled in the Kiev region of Ukraine because it was on their trade route to Constantinople.
Here in Kansas, many of the settlers started with "dugout" houses, partially (usually three sides) cut into the side of a hill and then turfed over with a sod roof. They are a very practical sort of house where there is a lack of large structural timber. The low profile is also wonderful in a land plagued by tornadoes. Unfortunately, most family groups replaced the 'soddies' with a frame built house as soon as financially possible. On my grandparent's farm, the original dugout was still there, converted to livestock housing, but it was still so nice to go in and cool off in the summer.
This is fascinating! Were the settlers copying the indigenous people? I'm sure many of them were using tipis, but I'm wondering if they left stockpiles in these sorts of structures
@@sarahwatts7152 The Native American tribes in this area were semi-nomadic, but their winter villages often were earth dome extended family houses. The settlers tended to more rectangle shaped houses and lived in them year round. Same materials, but different architecture.
I've been to Kansas, there are no hills! :P
@@pufthemajicdragon Compared to the mountains, yes. and I see the little emoji 😃 But you really only need about six feet of elevation, which you can find along streams even in the western part of the state, where it really IS flat.
@@sarahwatts7152 Most of the Native tribes in the area now known as Kansas, were semi nomadic. They used Earth lodges for winter wherever they had wind protection such as an area of woods. Of course, the land used for corporate farming at present so there's no way to see what they land looked like pre-colonization. The different tribes followed the Buffalo herds seasonally so I the summer they used semi permanent lodges that basically provided shelter from rain and sun but allowed air to freely circulate. They were mostly hunter gatherers.
You have such a relaxing, comfortable sounding voice. Your story-telling history lessons are excellent! Thank you for being you!
Jimmy narrates an audio book, when???
When you were describing dirt houses, they sound exactly like a Devon cobb longhouse.
Made entirely of mud and horse hair. They have rounded corners to the houses and this makes for a very soft appearance to the house but makes it difficult for furniture placement. These days they are often painted, and for,preference with lime wash as it allows the house to breathe where as you sometimes get sweaty interior walls if the outside is painted in a waterproof paint. If limewash is applied the whole house will be dry inside and out. The chimney is often stuck on the outside of the house. One for each room often. They look like round bumps on the outside of the house. Called longhouses as they are often one room front to back with a back connecting corridor. There are indeed second floors and a thatched roof though many are now tiled. Have lived in a couple in my life time.
They are indeed very cozy with the walls being 3 to 4 foot think warm in winter and cool in summer. . Not wonderful for mobile reception, and you often have to stand in the window for any reception at all. Originally the had mud floors but now have all sorts, wood, tiles, carpets. .
The one thing you learn very quickly is if there is anything like wall paper or tile stuck on the inside wall, never under any circumstances try to take them off just add to them tiling over or papering over.
If you try to take a tile off you will often make huge holes in the interior walls , sometimes all the way through to the exterior. As I found out to my horror when I didn’t like the tiles over the bathroom sink and decided to remove them . A massive hole appeared all the way to the,outside and once the builder arrived , he tutted and said no never do that. The rooms just get smaller and walls thicker in cobb houses. 😀
Basically if you want to live in a Viking house , try a Devon cobb longhouse 😀
Architecture is always interesting to me because you can get such a good understanding of how daily life might have been by having a look at how they're built, where the cooking fire was settled, the materials, etc. Super hype about this vid!
Sometimes provides some intrresting clues or confirmations of their metaphysical beliefs too, in terms of aligning entrances with certain cardinal directions/the sunrise, burying apotropaic fetishes under thresholds, indications of veneration of the communal hearth etc...?
I'm a big fan of material archaeology as a way of learning more about the past, not relying solely on written records, which can be scant, missing or severely biased? Any items found generally still require a fair degree of interpretation, but their orientation in the landscape & proximity to certain centres of activity etc can really tell one so much!
“Vernacular architecture” is what you’re talking about. It’s such a fascinating rabbit hole to go down, and it makes you realize how un-suited our modern western style houses are to most of the environments we build them in.
I really want to build a Viking age settlement in Minecraft now.
I like to see how small the doors were in ancient buildings, as it hints at the size of our ancestors; unless they were built small to keep the heat in.
@@euansmith3699 That's something I noted on visiting the oldest house in Scotland (Traquair) as its front door, which you would expect to be grand in the home of a Stuart family, was about the height of mine (made in 1975). It only made sense after seeing upstairs. The people had to have been much shorter to have got through doorways with hats or bonnets on.
My brother and I were talking about how Viking characters are often dressed as modern bikers in movies. He said that he wanted to open a shop called the Biking Viking.
Hello Jimmy! In Canada turf houses were built when people were "settling" the prairie provinces. They were called soddies because they were built from the sod.
In my Alternate-Universe daydreams (if I had the opportunity to take a different path at a different fork in the proverbial road), my dream home would be pit house: protected from hurricanes, a constant temperature of ~13 C/55 F year-round, before adding any additional heating, And as a wheelchair user, I could have a spiral ramp going around the outside walls, that could be a lot of fun. ...Also, I could play a TARDIS-like trick on folks ;-)
As a Scandinavian, I'd suspect that any house where the owners could afford it would have had at least a half floor loft for storage if not a full second floor.
That does neatly solve the "where did they put stuff?" question and its a good use for roof space.
One of my favourite weird archaeology facts is that only an archaeologist will be excited about finding a Stone Age rubbish dump (a midden, in other words). You can learn a lot from a person from their rubbish, so what they valued and what they threw away, what they ate, etc. When I was a kid and didn’t clean my room, my mum would say “go clean your room, it looks like a midden!”
14:10 I got a bit of a shiver when you talked about the crafting materials left behind. Just makes the people come alive as real individuals. There was a real person who could have said, "Yeah, one of my neighbors carves amber and the lady two doors down does plant dyeing." I just love those personal details that remain in the archaeology.
I wonder why those materials were left there? Surely they would have been valuable and salvaged?
Textile tools and equipment are highly portable. Even a full sized vertical loom is pretty easily moved about, even when dressed. Yes, it would probably take two or three people to lug it out into a yard or light exterior sheltered space. The basic activities of fibre prep, combing, spinning and even the use of a vertical loom could have been accomplished either outside or near a door because decent lighting is really important. However, it’s only natural to always find the items in the remains in an interior location, because that’s where it was probably stored when not in use. As a spinner, I much prefer to work with the best lighting I can get, but when I’m not working, everything is tucked away. My loom is by a window. Of course in the winter months, I work indoors, but decent lighting is always a premium part of textile work, because you really need to see what you’re doing.
I think turf houses and pit houses are due for a comeback; they seem like they'd be really great for natural insulation, which would be a good way of adapting to climate change. Higher temperatures are gonna require more air conditioning, which will lead to more power consumption, which leads to more carbon emissions, so why not build a house that doesn't NEED aircon? Plus, they'd look nice, who doesn't want to live in a real-life Hobbit house? Cozy af
Pit houses in particular have a fairly large number of people trying to get them to be used, except they have a few issues. Ventilation tends to be poor, they have little natural light, and they tend to be very damp. Now, all of these are issues you can address, but a house above ground it easier, cheaper, and safer.
I personally have always wanted a Hobbit hole.
Damp, and also prone to flooding I would imagine.
a very interesting example of the evolution of our perspective towards early iron age homes are the reconstructed iron age farms in Norway Stavanger (which are totally worth checking out) part of the reconstructed houses are still from the 1980s while some of them have had a makeover. the newer houses are higher and the interior walls have been whitewashed, creating a much more humane and more livable environment compared to the much lower darker almost cave like reconstructions of the 1980s. they even experimented with some paint on the white walls and have lots of woven blankets and other decorative things hanging from the wall. thanks to this makeover the farms went from cold dark and damp holes in the ground to comfortable warm and cozy farmsteads.
Thank you, I have been wondering about this! People in rural Norway could be found living in what were literally called smoke parlors ("røykstuer", with a sort of enclosed oven whose thick walls retained and radiated heat) or hearth parlors ("årestuer", with simply an open hearth) heated in this manner and vented through a hole in the roof well into the 19th century. I believe the absence of a chimney precludes an upper story as this would be entirely smoke-filled.
I DO wonder if the smoke kept flies & similar pests out, though ?! Especially if you were living very close to your Livestock & toilets !?
@@m.maclellan7147 Oh certainly, to say nothing of hanging dried or cured meat and flatbread up there for similar reasons.
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I bet that was the origin of smoked food: hanging it up where the smoke kept insects away, and eventually realising that food that had been smoked kept longer even after it was taken down, and that the flavour could actually be rather nice.
Salish longhouses in North America were designed to use the rafters to smoke their fish supply for the winter, makes sense to have a similar idea for a similar set of natural resources!
For other americans like myself.....UK town houses dont nessesity include shared party wall, unlike american town houses.....i got super excited by the idea of multifamily structures from the title but nope its just excedingly cool close packed simgle family houses..... on the other hand, having a bunch of houses with shared walls probably increaded the risk of large fires so it makes more sence this way.
Really cool video though
The temptation to build a longhouse in the woods in my area is unbearable.
I remember being shown the Lloyd's Bank Coprolite when we went on a school trip to York as a kid. Strangely enough, the Viking Poo was the highlight of the day for most 10-year-olds, irrespective of its archaeological significance
I'm surprised to hear you speak of half a dozen people living in a longhouse. To me 6 people sounds like parents with children, not an extended family with grand-parents, their kids and their grand-kids.
Ok. More then. 37 people.
@@TheWelshViking I never said it was inaccurate - you certainly know more than I do about the topic - just that I'm surprised. I honestly know nothing about the sizes of families at the time, and I have a hard time imagining how many people lived in an average village, small town or large city at the time. Is a typical village a dozen houses with an average of 6 people in each? Or is it like 50 houses? Just looking to learn.
Yes, I was surprised by that. I was expecting 10-15.
I enjoyed the video, Jimmy. This is a great topic of discussion. I always love the places you choose to record your videos. They're really quite lovely. Best wishes.🌱
Thanks it’s always nice to learn something cool during coffee break!
Those turf houses are giving me flashbacks to my time living in Iceland. Never lived in one, but I've been inside one or two. 😀
They have started recreating a pithouse in Eiríksstaðir, Iceland. The people behind it did a deep dive into pithouses in Iceland an believe that they were often focused on textile manufacturing and the recreation is gonna focus on that 😊
I've heard that association, the idea being that apparently the higher humidity of an earth-sheltered workspace keeps the fibers of the yarns more flexible and elastic for easier spinning and weaving.
I am always impressed by the resourcefulness & efficienct use of resources of ancient/iron age peoples. A central indoor hearth makes perfect sense for heating as well as cooking. In the evening it would be a source of light as well. (Not sure I would want walls made from manure since I'm sure the smell was quite pungent whenever it was damp)
After a few days it dry's out an stops smelling.
But you have to keep it dry so the straw an wood doesn't rot.
Awesome video! I'd love to see you do a series on the York excavations and the different finds!
Just found your channel. Very nice content. Great use of reference materials. Excellent job making history understandable.
Keep up the super work. Binging your catalog as we speak.
Properly made "open fire" house isn't _that_ smokey, I'd say. The smoke kinda gets pulled out through the opening up in the roof (when it works properly). You do smell like smoke after staying in a building like this, but it's not like you can't breathe or like there's really even visible smoke. Also this is why you use dry wood.
If ever in Finland get in contact with a group called Sommelo, and they might show you a few recreations of iron age (viking age) type buildings typical to Finland and surrounding areas. These are located in the capital, Helsinki. They are a group of non-profit volunteers and history enthusiasts, so if they give you a private tour, give them a small donation to help with keeping the place in shape. If you get very lucky you might get to see them building a new roof, making iron age pottery, cooking authentic dinners "viking" style etc. or participate and learn this stuff yourself.
*Oi, Jimmy! If you visit Finland sometime I can set this up!* 😀
There's also a recreation of a viking long house and a "Viking center" in a place called Rosala near Turku.
My husband and I were walking those York wall tops a couple months ago on a trip across the Pond to visit his mum - and I recognized your filming location immediately! And a couple years back, we were in Dublin - but Dublinia wasn’t open yet. The Jorvik Viking Centre Museum has been in my bucket list since it was first built; incredibly well done, down to “smell-a-vision” (and yes, we saw The Poo!). My only fuss about the whole trip, was the near total lack of ANYTHING with the white rose badge. For goodness sakes, you’d expect to find those all over the place for American tourists to take back home…..
Lovely video, made me smile several times! 😀
It was interesting to hear you mention trelleborgs, in Sweden we have a town called Trelleborg and there they built a quarter of the trelleborg that was excavated and it is open for visitors.The Valheim-picture was also nice to see! 😍
awesome video!! had a great conversation about this with some of the folk from my house hold in the SCA here :D
Lloyds Bank and coprolite is the perfect pairing of words
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This video made me really wish I could visit a living history museum that focuses on this historical time period. I live in southern New England, and our closest one portrays rural life from the 1790s to the 1830s. It's absolutely fascinating! This past October we took a tour of the village herb garden, then ended up having a wonderful hour and a half long conversation with the interpreter who gave it. I would absolutely LOVE to check out a viking age version!
I'd imagine that part of the point of such a large hearth (on top from all the "doing different things in different areas" that Jimmy mentioned) was simply as a sort of radiator: earth (or clay), on top of being insulating, stores a lot of heat & then releases it pretty slowly & steadily.
I just came back from a great ringing weekend in York - I'm fairly sure you cycled past me turning right in front of the Minster late Saturday afternoon. You had headphones on or I would have accosted you to say thank you for your channel in person.
Oh this was super interesting, hadn't heard about those small town houses before. The daily life of those who lived before us, to me, is always much more intriguing than war etc.
I do feel like I really have to visit York one day. :)
Love your stories, Jimmy!
Cool. Something I haven't thought much about.
Brilliant video, thank you. I think it's time I revisited the museum in Dublin again, apparently the Dublin tenements you mention are now under concrete with the DCU headquarters on top. Next time I pass by I'll imagine the tenements that used to be there.
A wonderful overview; thank you.
The houses sound a bit like old time Finnish cellars: you dig a downward sliding hole. Then you line the walls with rocks, and use rocks to build steps down. Make a roof from rocks and wood, and put the ground you dug up, back on top of the roof. They look like small mound of rocks, with grass and moss growing on top.
ok, now i legit want a pithouse cottage complete with the floor drain and oak walls. Those look so cozy and nice! People of the past sure knew how to do things effectively even with limited sources. Who cares about glass windows
"In a hole in the ground there lived a Viking. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Viking-hole, and that means comfort."
I knew when I saw a picture of my favorite Skyrim mod I was going to be in for a ride :D This was absolutely fascinating! And now I want to make a pit house in Valheim lol
Great video; thank you for sharing!
I remember one of the Laura Ingalls books mentioning that the Norwegian builder of their sod house had whitewashed the interior. It wasn't paneled inside, he'd appearantly just whitewashed the sods themselves. I've always wondered how that worked
Thank you for the super interesting video, and the links!
I Spent many happy days livingin a pit style house not far from york at the museum of farming. cozy and a lot less cow poo required for the walls. the stone base of the firepit acts like a giant storage heater, we found it impossible to sleep on the loft in the roof due to the Smoke.
I went to the Jorvik Viking Museum last September and saw the giant poo! I'm going to Dublin in December. I plan on taking a walking tour of Viking Dublin. Definitely checking out the archeology museum because it's free.
In Wisconsin, the first settlers often took their cues from the badgers. Some of the first houses in the state were very much like the pit houses.
I'm doing a cross country trip this autumn to Prince Edward Island. One of the places I plan to visit is L’Anse aux Meadows where they found like just one Turfhouse lol
Another great video. Completely unrelated but wondering if you know anything about the battle of Bryn Glas/Pilleth and the Glyndŵr uprising, I drove past the site a few weeks ago and looked it up knowing nothing of it. Everyone knows about William Wallace and the Scottish uprising but I'd imagine no-one knows about the Welsh one, I'd love a video in your informative style
I subbed your channel without watching a single video. By your name alone I knew your content would interest me. And it does -- but I had no idea you'd also be adorable.😅Even when you make that farty noise. I'll be drawing viking tenement houses all this rainy afternoon thanks to you, and for me there isn't a better way to spend such a day. Thanks for the fascinating lesson and inspiration.
I may binge you. Don't be nervous.😉
Hungarians also had these pit houses. They were used in the winter. In the summer they lived in yurts.
Talking of "yep, smokey house" do we have any idea what smoke management might have been like in a two-storey house ?
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Upper storey may have been mostly (or even entirely) for storage, perhaps?
@@ragnkja Which would give more insulation?
In English medieval halls that were heated by a central fire, there were high, open windows that created an air flow to vent the smoke. When tended by an expert, a fire will give off less smoke and create more heat. Thatch will let smoke out while keeping rain out as well. You hang the pork in the rafters to smoke for preservation. Thus, what we would consider a problem, they saw as an asset.
@@kathyjohnson2043 Interesting--thank you.
I had no idea Viking town houses pooped. Learn something new every day.
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You had me at “poop”
Great content! 🎉
Thanks
Sospan bach is one of my favourites!
Ooh, was the first pit house you showed, against the sea, at Foteviken Viking village in Southern Sweden?
One of my summer homes . . .
I went to Dublinia in 2016. Loved it. Look forward to going to York sometime.
nice one, our kid lives in York too
Love learning about how material culture teaches us how people lived. And bonus: the references to history in both Canada's east and west coasts!
Those turf houses are beautiful. I wish we could still live in them.
Pitthouse roofs are normal in the Alps nowadays, too. I think the steeper a roof is the longer is the durability.
Jimmy, please explain what you mean by a 'metalled' walkway with cobbles. I have never seen a cobbled walkway dissected nor have I read about the process, but it sounds like you have and you know a secret or two about it. Could you please be so kind as to elucidate? My curiosity is gnawing me to a nub here.
Several episodes of Time Team refer to grubenhauses.... Is that the pit house you were referring to?
Yup! Grübenhaus is the German word, I’m told
As a history enthusiast, I love your videos. German here, and may I correct you: it's "Grubenhaus", plural Grubenhäuser, from Grube: pit. Umlaute are tempting;) Some ppl do have "Grübchen" though, these are dimples :D
Ooops... "where did they poop" is giving me Blackadder II vibes... the "Money" episode :-) IKYK
You mean you crap out of a window?
Textile work happening indoors makes perfect sense to me, because yeah, you don't have natural light, or at least not as much of it, but you also don't have the wind tangling up your work and it's cleaner indoors
an its not raining.
Large windows are normal of weavers houses, lots of light.
Has anyone advanced or tested the Hypothesis that the Viking A-Frame tents may have been made to mimic Pit houses? Obviously you wouldn’t dig a pit if you were just stopping overnight, but if you are overwintering, I imagine throwing digging a rectilinear pit and throwing an A-frame tent over it would be like a home away from home.
I mean, there’s nothing stopping you from doing so! I’ll see if I cam get permission at an event.
I think one of the main theories is that the base allowed it to be pitched on a ship, which seems less likely tbh
As you so carefully described, a Trelleborg is an earthen embankment in a circular formation lined with a wooden palisade. The name probably comes from "trällor" wooden logs and not to be confused with "träl" which is the old norse word for slave.
Turf houses are the real life equivalent of Hobbit holes!
FYI, current-day modern city dwelling people have worms too. It would be more unusual for a person today to NOT have some parasites in our digestive tracts than to have some. What's of note here is the AMOUNT of parasites in someone's poop. A heavy worm burden indicates poor health since 'parasites' population will explode if the host's homeostasis and immune system is out of whack from malnutrition, overwork, poor diet, etc and unable to keep the parasite population in check. But normally, like other microbes part of our microbiome, we have evolved to, and continue to live in balance with them. I guess you could say even worms are nuanced lol.
Only half a dozen people living in a longhouse? I always imagined it was more like a couple of dozen. Not that I know much about this, at all.
Thank you so much for this video! I'm planning on teaching my elementary school class about medieval houses, and having them build their own wattle and daub house with sticks and clay, and I'm trying to make it as historically accurate as possible. This video was super helpful!
Do you happen to know how wattle and daub houses were affixed to the ground? Were the walls build on a stone layer, or were the posts just stuck into the ground then the wattle woven around them, or something else?
There’s a couple of links that show some nice post holes that held posts that supported wattle walls in many cases. Should be an easy way for the kids to make theirs! :)
@@TheWelshViking Thank you!!! Your links are amazing. Some of the terminology went a bit over my head (like "pile-cluster"), but the pictures and descriptions are super helpful (and really cool to see)!
My great grandmother was born in Nunnery Lane in York .. She married a Welshman
Thanks!
The way historical peoples have used architectural engineering & social cohesion to manage things like heating & insulation in a low-tech era never ceases to impress me... Honestly, these largely subterranean or turf-cut collective residences would do a far better job than my current flat in terms of heating efficiency! Makes sense at a time when cutting firewood or turves entailed a lot of time & effort away from vital things like food production, and the climate was much cooler as well.
I noticed that old houses in the UK had a much lower ratio of window to wall area than modern houses. From the 1930's to 1980's windows enlarged to almost the whole height and width of the wall, along with "brutalist" architecture. That resulted in flats that were hot in summer and cold in winter, and expensive to heat. No air-con, of course. New houses have smaller windows, so it seems lessons have been learned by the architects.
I really wish we had these kinds of sites closer than a 20 hour drive from where I live. I’d love to get the chance to go take a look in a medieval long house or a Viking age city
Didn't people probably bring their tools home/in at night when they were done working and that's why tools etc were found in the house even though they probably worked outside in the sunlight..?
The way you describe the tenament plots makes me think of modern suburbs in American movies 😂
3:47 And if you're sleeping when it happens, an easy made tomb...
brilliant!
Imagine how large our coprolite piles will be when they’re discovered.
I came here to get some inspiration and knowledge for my buildings in valheim 😅
Is there any idea when chimneys came in to use? Were they first adopted in towns or the countryside?
I want a turf house... or a more modern house and just turf the roof and turn my home into a small hillock.
You're speaking my language. My dream home is an earth-sheltered monolithic concrete dome with a turfed roof.
So for many years Jimmy, I thought that a really good type of living quarters would be an earth house. Much like the structures you're talking about. The temp inside is rather stable because you're underground, The only problem is to keep the moisture level stable. Lighting can be accomplished with vertical ports to the top or roof. Anyhow, I thought that building it in a hill facing South. The Southern wall could be made of glass. So Jimmy are you single? You're very attractive BTW.
Okay but I'm a full time Viking and my wife is a weaver and part time social influencer so which type of house can provide us with benches, a loo, and a short walk to the beach all for less than I pay on my monthly eyeliner supplies?
Tapadh leat!
I had my 5 seconds of stuipid. I thought: "Jimmys living on a wall?!"
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Soooo what I'm hearing is that we all live like Vikings!
Oh auto-subs, he said "terraced housing", not "terrorist housing". It's a shame they can't let users suggest corrections to auto-subs, you could use AI to compare the suggested corrections to the rest of the transcript, and trained transcripts for additional context, to incrementally improve both the subs on individual videos, but also improve the generated subs on future videos.
I'd be willing to bet they had turf wars,( I'm taking your land so I can build my house.)😂😂😂
I hope the townhouses didn't have an HOA.😂
How many societies down through history suffered from that problem?
Those people that walked by were ver tall