Get ready for Viking Festival in Midgard 2023!
The textile fragments from the Oseberg tomb (834 AD) in Norway are considered the world's largest and most important textile finds from the Viking Age. Among the textiles, 48 tablet-woven bands were identified and roughly divided into five categories by Margareta Nockert: I) Brocade, II) Tabby, III) Mixed I and II, IV) Ready threaded and V) Three or more colours without brocade (Nockert, 2006, pp. 147-155).
We invite you to a leather course with Hans Gunnar Pedersen on Sunday 8 May at 11-17.
Experience of rhythm and synchronization to an external pulse is fundamental in human biology and culture, and a prerequisite for music and dance. To coordinate rhythm and movement, people have always sung, clapped, trampled and hit stones or other objects against each other. But what does archeology say about spe
I'm an experimental archaeologist with a PhD from Exeter Uni (2016) and a music composer.
The Norwegian forum for experimental archeology will be held at Tingvatn and organized by the Vest-Agder museums.
Midgard Viking Centre / The Vestfold museums are co-hosting the forum.
More info to follow.
Peace and conflict are the theme of this year's research days.
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