A few craftsman in Iceland still practice the technique of building with turf, a tradition believed to date to the ninth century settlement of Europe's most sparsely-populated country. With walls and ...
A land of vast open spaces, steaming blue lagoons, geysers, and powerful volcanoes, Iceland is beautifully raw and remote, but not exactly hospitable to humans. When the Norse and British settlers ...
RECONSTRUCTED MEDIEVAL FARM IN ÞJÓRSÁRDALUR AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ICELANDIC TURF HOUSE BY GUÐMUNDUR ÓLAFSSON AND HÖRÐUR ÁGÚSTSSON ENGLISH TRANSLATION ...