turf house

turf house, originally uploaded by lolla_sig.

this is part of the Glaumbær turf house located in Skagafjordur, north of Iceland. People lived in houses like this up until late 1800 and in some remote places even longer. It´s made of turf and rocks with wooden front and kept our ancestors warm in the long and cold winters we used to have here. This is now a museum

by lolla_sig