When his pursuers entered the house to make a search, she showered them with abuse, which kept them from examining the bed very closely. Very wealthy people may have had much finer bedding. In chapter 51 of Eyrbyggja saga , rgunna's bedding included fine English sheets, a silken quilt, and pillows. Some of the stories refer to sleeping quarters in the loft of the longhouse. However, the upper levels of a longhouse must have been foul with smoke from the open fires, making it unlikely that anyone would sleep there.
Stories refer to tables being set up for meals, then taken down for other activities.
It's not clear what form those tables might have taken. The other likely pieces of furniture in a longhouse were wooden chests for storage and a vertical loom for weaving cloth. The loom and one of the tables at St ng is shown to the right. Despite the cozy picture I've painted above, the longhouse was scarcely the place for privacy. Everyone must surely have known what everyone else was doing.