There is a great picture of the interior of a house if you click on the
picture in the lower right
http://www.gagarin.is/index.php/id/127

I gather the built-in bench on the left is the dias that the women sit on
(and also that people would sleep on), but where would the benches and table
be set up and which are the innermost seats that seem to be places of
honour? Are the innermost seats at the center of the long axis of the
house nearest the fire?
Grace
Fred and Grace Hatton
Hawley Pa