Viking Tents

During the ninth and tenth centuries, a Viking camp for a long stay on shore included items such as wooden tubs, various tools and implements, a cauldron and other portable cooking equipment, plates, trays, and oil lamps. The Vikings also erected elaborate tents. I have constructed two A-frame style pavilions over the years and have adopted a study, creatively anachronistic, resemblance to the Viking tent for use in the SCA. Since many have asked me how this pavilion is constructed, I will try here to explain and illustrate as best I can my adaptation.

Viking A-frame tents and Saxon getelds.

Discusses different sorts of dwellings and their construction, furniture, heating & lighting, and tents.