The texborg

[Nordic]

Your skills are seeminly developing and am happy to notice you have wide range of talents ranging from human characters to narratives and archeological buildings. Well done!

From Finland has been found the Iron Age bronze decorative plate shown below (from book Ella Kivikoski, Die Eisenzeit Finnlands, 1973). Some people wonder, including I, if it actually depicts a Greek style temple from frontal viewpoint. Now I see that it could also depict the likes of Trelleborg houses. If not yet familiar with old Nordic (Scandinavian, Finnish, Russian) wooden churches, please take a look at them as it is believed that preceding pagan temples were more or less similar in architecture.

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[Kraftr]

Thank you! Yes I look at these building styles, but I never could translate it into a tower etc You seem to me more knowledgable than me, I always feel like everybody here rolls their eyes, ‘o he doesn’t even know Trelleborg’ so feels good you are learning too. I don’t see this post on my thread by the way, but by ome other route

[Kraftr]

well in my drawing of ‘longhouse greek style’ I thought of the triangle shape of greek temples called the timpaan, How would this look on a longhouse?
On the temples the stonelevel under the timpaan is a stone replication of a wooden construct, early greek temples were wood and not preserved -sidenote;,the early style was called Dorian from the Dorian tribe, made me wonder if this was imported from Dorestad-
but I thought the columned walkway called "stoa" (Root of the word stoicism, but is this from old dutch 'sta'(place)?) on the side would probably continue in the front, the door would be there on the long end like greek temples, instead of the side as in other scandinavian longhouses I drew inspiration from, and the seat of the mother would maybe be at the end like the gods often sit in greek temples. Then I saw the Trelleborg, looked good but then I remember seeing this roofshape in some farmhouses too, So I searched and found this.
They are called owlboards. Always these owls and swans...
I'll be drawing them like this next.