How to make VIKING TENT. Part 1 - Frame.

This is our attempt to make a Viking tent found on a ship from Oseberg - an essential element of historical reenactment equipment, especially if you and have children and want to participate in historical events with them.
This Oseberg Viking tent is more of an interpretation than an exact reconstruction - we didn't build it using actual historical methods, nor did we use perfectly historically accurate materials - we used spruce and beech instead of ash/ pine/ oak, and flax canvas instead of wool. However whole structure was made of wood, based on plans from Foteviken Viking Museum: https://www.fotevikensmuseum.se/d/en/... , preserved at the end with tar, and the canvas were made of thick, impregnated linen (flax).
Our tent has slightly different proportions - it is a bit wider and shorter (we don't have to fit it on the boat, but we have to be able to fit it in the trailer ;) )

This video shows:
preparing the boards forming front and back triangles of the tent
drilling in construction beams and embedding wooden shafts in them
connecting together (almost) all elements of the tent frame

00:00 Introduction
00:42 Preparing the boards
02:41 Wooden shafts in construction beams
07:08 Connecting together elements
10:23 Erecting the tent frame
12:10 Tent in the open-air museum
13:24 Wood tarring

I plan more videos on this subject. Next will show canvas sewing process, - another - the elements that we omitted during filming this videos due to the rush. Our tent also has an elevating wall, the making and construction of which is not covered in this video, however, I give below the dimensions and quantities of materials needed.

Materials used (all dimensions in millimeters):
spruce beams:
1pc x 3200x70x40 mm
1pc x 3160x70x40 mm
1pc x 3120x70x40 mm
*elevating wall: 1pc x2960x40x40 mm

spruce boards:
6pcs x 3600x90x20 mm
*elevating wall: 2 pcs x 2800x90x20 mm

beech shafts 30 mm diameter:
6pcs x 250 mm
2pcs x 140 mm

wooden dowels 10 mm diameter:
6pcs x 70 mm
2pcs x 40 mm

yew wedges
wood glue

If you are interested in more technical and historical information please turn on the subtitles.

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MUSIC (all music is from https://artlist.io/ )
"Axe & Shield" by Jakub Pietras
"Mist over Lapland" by Jakub Pietras
"Once Upon a Time" by Belsitzman & Matan Ephrat
"The Day Before" by Belsitzman & Matan Ephrat
"Ants Life" by Jakub Pietras
"Killing Monsters" by Jakub Pietras