Hurstwic's video: Hurstwic: Burning Longhouse Preliminary Report

Ever wonder what it was like being on the inside when Vikings set a house ablaze? Wonder no longer. At our Fire Festival at Eiríksstaðir, Hurstwic used experimental archaeology to research the Viking-age battle tactic of attacking a man by setting fire to his longhouse. This video is a preliminary report on what we discovered. While more experiments and data analysis are ongoing, these experiments at the festival clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of the tactic. This report shows never-before-captured footage of the fire from inside the house, making clear the horror of the tactic in an extremely visual way. Hurstwic has previously released a number of other videos on this research that may be of interest. A discussion of the Viking-age battle tactic of burning the longhouse: https://youtu.be/H-hUxbpFjqM The importance of the door in the attack on the house: https://youtu.be/bQ-TmFmoeSw A summary of our 4th preliminary experiment, burning a door and passageway in the laboratory of the Fire Protection Engineering department of WPI: https://youtu.be/LDUsSX_1lC8 A comparison of test burns of a scale model vs a full-size structure: https://youtu.be/diVzoMb1SPo A montage of images from the Fire Festival: https://youtu.be/HdqRj0F57nw Videos about the Fire Festival research on other channels: Viking-Age Battle Tactics - Fire Festival at Eiríksstaðir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKz6twf5Bqc Today's Burning at Eiríksstaðir (in English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh6Pz1m0XIg Bruninn á Eiríksstöðum í dag (â íslensku) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX_N_6EDmMI More information about the Fire Festival: https://www.hurstwic.com/fire/