Vikings of Bjornstad - Lofotr Museum

The Lofotr Viking Museum is located in the village of Borg, in Northern Norway. This an historical museum based on a reconstruction and the archaeological excavation of a Viking chieftain's village on the island of Vestvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway. In 1983, archaeologists uncovered the Chieftain House at Borg, a large Viking Era building believed to have been established on or before 500 AD. A Scandinavian research project was conducted at Borg from 1986 until 1989. Excavations revealed the largest building ever to be found from the Viking period in Norway. The foundation of the Chieftain House at Borg measured 83 metres (272 ft) long and 9.5 metres (31 ft) wide, and the reconstructed building is 9 metres (30 ft) high.[2][3] The seat at Borg is estimated to have been abandoned around AD 950. (Adapted from Wikipedia)

These photographs presented here through the kind permission of Lyonel Perabo.

The longhouse	Wax figures of the masters of the house
Glass, most likely looted or bought from Europe	Glass fragments, and whale bone plaques, whose use is still uncertain
Loom equipments, including a weaving sword made of whale bone	Stirrup equipment in bronze
Iron axe head and ceramic beads	Rare gold-foil glass fragments
Gullgubber gold foil	Piece of iron horse stirrup
Bronze brooches	Ceramic beads
Iron key fragments and whalebone weaving sword	Reconstructed shoes
Iron ring and sword hilt	Reconstructed baking equipment
Reconstructed pots and plates	The house and the surrounding landscape
The longhouse - and some horses	The outline of the original house, with wooden posts put where the original ones were