Capturing the beagle in the entrance is a nice touch! Interesting composition, perhaps a bit too much color saturation in parts of the house and foreground for my tastes however, but the blues of the sky turned out quite nice! I like it.
urm - yeah - vikings had corugated iron and concrete... of course! Bit to tight of a crop considering the second part of your title - i see little if any ofthis land you speak of. Basically i think you were trying to hard with the title and it lost any significance. Nice colours and detail in the shot, but uninspired composition imo...