Bryndís Zoëga

• Turf Building in Iceland – Past, Present, and Future

  Open Access•G Zoëga, Sigríður Sigurðardóttir et al.•ARTICLE•Open Archaeology•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 3

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  For a millennium, turf was the primary building material in Iceland. It was used for dwellings, outhouses, boundary walls, raised roads, and other man-made structures. Turf is known as an earthen building material in many countries, especially in northern latitudes, but the knowledge of how to build using it has mostly disappeared. As turf was used well into the twentieth century in Iceland, the skilled craft of locating, harvesting, and building…

• Turf Building in Iceland – Past, Present, and Future

  Open Access•G Zoëga, Sigríður Sigurðardóttir et al.•ARTICLE•Open Archaeology•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 3

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  For a millennium, turf was the primary building material in Iceland. It was used for dwellings, outhouses, boundary walls, raised roads, and other man-made structures. Turf is known as an earthen building material in many countries, especially in northern latitudes, but the knowledge of how to build using it has mostly disappeared. As turf was used well into the twentieth century in Iceland, the skilled craft of locating, harvesting, and building…

• Turf Building in Iceland – Past, Present, and Future

  Open Access•G Zoëga, Sigríður Sigurðardóttir et al.•ARTICLE•Open Archaeology•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 3

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  For a millennium, turf was the primary building material in Iceland. It was used for dwellings, outhouses, boundary walls, raised roads, and other man-made structures. Turf is known as an earthen building material in many countries, especially in northern latitudes, but the knowledge of how to build using it has mostly disappeared. As turf was used well into the twentieth century in Iceland, the skilled craft of locating, harvesting, and building…

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