Photo shows Mads Dengso Jessen, Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark, with a piece of window glass fragment from the Viking Age, undated. New research has revealed that the Vikings had windows with glass panes. Note: Licensed photo (John Fhaer Engedal Nissen, The National Museum of Denmark/Newsflash)
Copyrights: Fhaer Engedal Nissen, The National Museum of Denmark/Newsflash
11 October 2023
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Viking kings and nobles were among the first in history to put glass into the windows of their timber-framed longhouses, archaeologists have discovered. Early glass windows are usually associated with medieval churches or European castles in later medieval times. But now experts say some of...