A CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE
Broadside accessibility is as old as the type itself, and, in
fact, one of the very earliest of the aisled Iron Age houses
so far known, that of Jemgum (fig. 314), is entered through
two porches that face each other in opposite pairs in the
middle of the two long walls. Broadside accessibility is a
characteristic feature not only of many of the smaller
Ezinge houses (figs. 293-297), it is a standard form of the
houses, both small and long, of Fochteloo (fig. 304) and
Feddersen-Wierde (figs. 315-316). It is the standard form
of most of the Iron Age houses of Denmark,[165]
a common
occurrence among the Migration Time houses of Öland[166]
and Norway[167]
as well as among the Saga period houses of
Iceland[168]
and Greenland.[169]