Viking Age

This international congress brings together agricultural and rural museum and heritage professionals from around the world to explore and share their work. It is a rare opportunity for agricultural museum professionals and others interested in farming heritage to discuss engagement, research, collections practice, and related activity.

Frustration. Uncertainty. Anger. Heartache. 2020 has given us much. We’ve also been harshly reminded that climate change is upon us, that politicians equivocate, that people have opinions, and that murder hornets are a thing. Our industry has been hit particularly hard. Many of us have been let go.

Autumn is here and soon winter is at the door. At VikingaTider you can learn more about what winter time - with its darkness and cold - meant to ancient man.

According to tradition, Yule lasts 13 nights, which are called the "Nights of the Spirits". These thirteen nights, from the first sunset to the last dawn, are a gap between two years, a sacred period during which there is neither the usual time nor the usual boundaries, when the lot of the gods is decided and the spindle of

The "Northern Campaign" in the Medieval town of Svargas is an event for boys of different ages and their parents, it will be especially interesting and informative to take on the role of trackers and hikers. Get useful skills for a successful campaign: how to light a fire, how to find landmarks in the area, how to cook a mar

Samhain is one of the main holidays of the Wheel of the Year, which was celebrated at the end of October. The traditional Samhain festival marked the end of the harvest, simultaneously ending one agricultural year and the beginning of a new one.

Autumn mood in Haithabu - the Vikings are preparing for the quiet season. They do small manual jobs around the open hearth. With great skill, the woodcarver Reinhard Erichsen creates smaller and larger objects for everyday use: knife handles, spoons, children's toys and wooden needles

Under expert guidance, the participants make a wooden round sign with a diameter of 80 cm step by step. After the surface of the shield has been sanded, the edges are covered with cowhide. Ash wood handles are attached to the back and a hand-f

The hunting weekend is a real highlight on the site near the Viking houses. The fact that the settlers from Haithabu also went hunting is proven by the slaughterhouse waste recovered by archaeologists from the port of Haithabu: Bones of red deer, wild boar and roe deer were found. In addition to meat, hides, antlers and sinews were coveted raw materials that were processed into numero