Norstead

Just down the road from L'Anse aux Meadow you will find a second viking village called Norstead. Here is a private facility which was built to further educate and entertain visitors. I think of it as the Hollywood version of the real thing. It is also very interesting. 

In the visitor's centre, a "viking" came in to get a bandaid. I teased him by jeering, "C'mon, You're a viking."

He replied, "Yes I am, but I'm not as tough as the vikings we are playing."

The very first building is called the boathouse, and it actually does contain a viking ship.

The ship does not entirely fit in the boathouse. It pokes out the other end.

In a strange coincidence, I was reading a coffee-table book just last night at Tuckamore Lodge. I believe it was called "A Viking Voyage". It told the tale of a modern day adventurer who was fascinated with the history of the vikings. This adventurer build his ship from the ground up using original materials and original methods. His ship fit into his boathouse in Greenland, but he did have to enlarge the door in order to get it out. He then gathered a crew of 12 and sailed from Greenland to L'Anse aux Meadows.

This ship in this boathouse is the actual ship that he created.

Worsted is not real, but it is "real".

Here the metalworker works with iron. It might take two hours with a dual bellows to make the iron hot enough to work.

This bed belonged to the leader. It was the only one with a curtain.

This is the leader's wife. She "controlled" the women of the longhouse. The men were her husband's responsibility.

Others just found an open space on the floor.

There was a women's workroom where sewing and weaving took place

This was the only place where Deb could find a snowbank which she could climb on.