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PLAN OF THE HOUSE OF ERIK THE RED IN HAUKADALE 



above the level of the floor. Other non-essential forms of fire- 

 place I need not describe here. A separate apartment was often 

 formed by erecting a thin partition across a room, as is shown 

 in this plan by the dotted line. Pavements, but more often 

 thresholds made of one or more long stone slabs, were some- 

 times in the doorways and also in the passages through the thick 

 walls between the apartments. The outhouse shown at the 



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