Dr. Asta Mønsted

Then you have an entry tunnels, an entrance tunnel, and it's around, it can be one and a half meter all the way up to six meters.

And the entrance tunnel is going to work as a sort of cold trap.

So because it is dug into the ground, all that cold air is going to stay in that entryway.

And then you...

climb up you crawl through that long entrance it's crawling is it it is crawling to get in it really is you need to crawl and then you come up into the raised floor area and from from that floor area you can go to a raised sleeping platform so because it is those layers the cold trap works really well and the warmest space inside the house is on the sleeping platform where

the kids are running around probably naked.

So it's really well structured for that extreme environment.

To begin with, for example, at Ruin Island, we see fires inside in a small

sort of kitchen niche.

And then at some point they figure out, oh, this land that we have just moved to, wood is not abundant.

So we need to figure out another way of doing things.

So they start cutting into stone, soapstone, for example, and they make these soapstone lamps.

And in the soapstone land, you can put some seal blubber, whale blubber, whatever blubber you have.

And then you put some dried mosses that you sort of roll into small sausages along the side.

And there you have a huge candle.

And this candle, so to say, is going to give you some lights, but it also provides the house with much needed warmth.

So you can also cook above that lamp.

So it's also your sort of cooking area.

And then even raised over your cooking pot, you could have a drying rack to dry your skins and your mittens and all of that from being outside.

So it was really well structured.