Viking Fortress
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 | Viking Fortress |
| Designer | unknown |
| Location | Sjaelland, Denmark |
| Date | 1000 |
| Building Type | fortress |
| Climate | cold temperate |
| Context | rural |
| Architectural Style | Early Nordic Vernacular |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | "Trelleborg". Long-houses, forming perhaps more an encampment than a fortress. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Viking_Fortress.html |
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See also the [1], with later but related form and construction.
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Holger Arbman. Ancient Peoples and Places, The Vikings. London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. aerial photo of Trelleborg military encampment, plate24.
Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. four-square diagram, p189.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com
Eric Graf Oxenstierna. The World of the Norsemen. New York: The World Publishing Company, 1967. photo of reconstruction of barracks at Trelleborg, plate 63a, between p138-139.
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