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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]

[165]

Besides the example reproduced in fig. 276 above, see Gudmund
Hatt's review of the Danish material (Hatt, 1937) as well as the results of
his excavation of the Early Iron Age village of Nørre Fjand (Hatt, 1957).

[166]

For Márten Stenberger's review of the Öland material, see Stenberger,
1933.

[167]

The Norwegian material excavated prior to 1942 is summarized by
Sigurd Grieg, in Grieg, 1942.

[168]

For Iceland, see the account of the excavations conducted in 1939
by a combined team of Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and
Finnish anthropologists, edited by Márten Stenberger, in Stenberger,
1943.

[169]

For Greenland, see Aage Roussel's account, in Roussel, 1941.