Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Hobbit holes

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WebEcoist has photos of hobbit hole houses.

Steph points out that the Viking houses in Lanse Aux Meadows, (the Viking site in Newfoundland, Canada) were similarly made comfortable by their earthen protection.

Wikipedia has an article on putting sod on top of roofs in Scandinavia.

which might be why the German and Scandinavian settlers of the Dakotas knew how to make sod houses.

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