Hi Jim,

This is an excellent link and provides a good insight into Western Scandinavian building tradition plus also provides selected coverage of the Orkneys, Shetlands and Faroe Islands. It mentions "trestle" type frames which is a new timber framing terminology or at least one not in general use by the English. This technique might well be even older than the Norman techniques that were adopted and developed in England following the Norman invasion in 1066 and so this research might possibly reflect a precedant to same. There is a well known timber building in the Faroes that has been in domestic occupation now for over one thousand years.

Regards

Ken Hume