Click on the image to see image of how a Viking farm might have looked.

A Viking farm had a lot of different sections to it. On one side of the farm there are the fields. In these field the Vikings grew flax for making clothes, barley, green vegetables such as beans and cabbage (these were grown in the vegetable garden), turnips, wheat, rye, etc. The Vikings ploughed their fields by using horses and wooden ploughs. Close to the field is a house for storing food, and the blacksmith house where the smith lives.

On the other side of the farm is the animal house. Animals such as horses, cows, sheep and pigs were kept in here, but dead animals which were ready to eat, were also kept in here. The Vikings hunted whales, deer, moose, seals, rabbits and hares, walrus, polar bear, wild boar, goose, and even seagulls. Along side the animal house was the slave hut. All the slaves shared one room.

Click on the graphic to see how a longhouse might have looked inside.

The biggest house on the Viking farm was the longhouse. The longhouse was mainly for women. There were women weaving, making clothes, ironing cloths with a piece of hot glass, cooking the bread and porridge, making cheese, etc. But also in the longhouse were the beds for sleeping in. Inside the longhouse it was dark and smelly. There were no windows and no hole in the roof for letting out the smoke that came from the fire. It was a house with only one room in it. This helped to keep it warm. The roof is made of wooden planks with straw laid over it.

Read about Daily Life in Viking times

Read about Viking Pets & Domesticated Animals

Read about What Vikings Ate

Read more about aspects of everyday life (click here).

Click here to play a game set in a Viking age farmhouse. Click on the items which do not belong. (Requires Flash plug-in.).