Dr. Asta Mønsted

And they are more elongated and sort of rectangular in shape, but you still have that entrance tunnel that you need to crawl through.

And then you enter a space that it's more rectangular.

And instead of having small niches for your families, they all have one long sleeping platform.

And then you have sort of curtains dividing the different family compartments.

So there you could then, then you didn't have to go outside to the assembly house.

You could just simply meet inside there to tell your stories.

But, but, uh, the, uh,

The shaman of the settlement could also do his seances right there.

Yeah, they have survived better.

I mean, we register summer tents as well, which they only leave remains in the landscape as sort of rings of stone.

But the winter houses, because you dug into the turf area and they are much sturdier, they need to be built to last a whole winter.

And sometimes the winter house was probably even not fortified, sort of made stronger.

What would be the right word for that?

Yeah, or you at least maintain the house, even if it has sort of fallen a bit down.

Okay, so you repair it.

For example, if a wall is almost sliding in, you, of course, need to repair it.

But the idea in Greenland was also that once you have built a house,

There you're going to stay during that winter.

But once you leave the house, it's not yours.

So whoever reaches that house in the next autumn to occupy during that winter, it's their rights.