Want to "walk" through a real Viking village? The sequences below from the NOVA film "The Vikings" offer a fascinating and unprecedented look at Birka, a medieval Viking village that archeologists ...

but underneath the scavenge/harvest/build beginnings it quickly becomes obvious that you can't create much of anything without a village to back you up. No Viking Is As Strong As All Vikings ...

The village of Hadstock ... Viking Age edited by Graham-Campbell et al (Andromeda, 1994) Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings by John Haywood (Penguin, 1996). Detailed maps of Viking ...