Naust (boathouse)

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The Naust (also called Nausttuft, in Orkney Noust ) is a characteristic building type of the Scandinavian north and the parts of the British Isles inhabited by Vikings (six in Backiskaill , four on Faray and at least 3 near Cott on Papa Westray ). From the Iron Age to after the Viking Age , especially in winter, ships were stored and serviced in Naust . Traces of these boathouses can be found numerous on the coasts, where the banks are shallow to pull the relatively light ships ashore. In those days this was the usual form of landing wherever there were no harbors. Two "Nauster" are in Harrebjerg near Skive in Denmark.

Naust; Reconstruction in the Karmøy open-air museum

Replicas

Suitable accommodation was sought in Norway for the replica of a ship from the Vendel period , traces of which were found in one of the burial mounds in Valsgärde (Sweden) . Since one could fall back on a revealing excavation finding from the southern Norwegian Stend (near Bergen ), it was obvious to reconstruct a Naust. The work was carried out in 1989 by Tomas Johansson and Jan Bill from the Institute for Prehistoric Technology in Sveg in Härjedalen, Sweden . The ship was named after the Viking Arnljot Gelline, who died in 1030 AD . The Naust is now in Gällö in Jämtland .

  • Nausts

  • Restored Noust at Skipi Geo Orkney

  • Naust in Selje

  • Boathouse in Western Norway

  • Naust from Gloppen, Norway

  • Noust from South Aittit Orkney

The largest Naust discovered so far, with a length of 44 meters, is located in Holsneset near Leknes, the administrative seat of the municipality of Vestvågøy on the Norwegian Lofoten . A Swedish Naust (Swedish also Kas or Båtlänning) is located near Hovgarden on Adelsö in Mälaren . Some coastal communities have been named after Kas, for example Kåseberga and Abbekås.

See also

literature

  • Oliver Grimm: large boathouse - center and rule. Central square research in northern European archeology (1st – 15th centuries) 2006 ISBN 978-3-11-020284-7
  • Björn Myhre: Nausttuft from the Iron Age in Stend in Fana. (Viking 1976, pp. 29-78. Ill.) Oslo 1977. Oslo 1977.

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