If you’ve been arguing with your pals over whether the structures we’ve seen so far are period accurate, then firstly I applaud you on finding friends with a common interest. Secondly, The Vikings are here to tell you: they’re not. “The Saxons of the 9th Century [the game is set in 873] weren’t great builders, keeping themselves mostly in small villages with buildings made of wooden thatch and clay walls over wattled wood. Alfred [who reigned from 886 – 899] was the first English king to start to fortify towns, however these still weren’t made of stone, and were mostly fortified wooden stockades with square towers of wood on either side of entrance gates leading in to the town. It wasn’t until after the Norman conquest in the 11th Century that we saw stone keeps being built.”

https://www.vg247.com/2020/05/20/asa...h-real-viking/