Viking Age

Summer Market in Haithabu

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Germany

Life in Haithabu pulsates on the longest days of the year. Traders from almost all of the world known at the time hurried through the narrow streets between the thatched and straw-roofed houses, exchanged ideas with craftsmen and met on the jetties at the port. Goods are examined and haggled here until late in the evening.

Spring Market in Haithabu

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Germany

Over the Easter days, the popular spring market will take place again at the Viking houses in Haithabu. Traders, craftsmen and market participants from Germany and the neighboring countries present their goods, allow you to look over their shoulders at their craft and give visitors a lively insight into the hustle and bustle in Haithabu 1,000 years ago.

Living like the Vikings

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Germany

"Living like the Vikings" - some invest a lot of energy, time and money into this. Once a year, Living History performers, dealers and guests meet in Oerlinghausen - for one of the largest and most traditional events of this kind in Europe. On September 10th and 11th More than 70 Viking actors from Germany, the Net

St Fagans' Craft Weekend

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United Kingdom

Craft and making is at the heart of St Fagans and its collections. Our new galleries are filled with handmade objects - some over 200,000 years old. From the humblest bowl to the finest textiles – the urge to shape, make, mend and decorate and has always been with us.

Join us as we celebrate craft and creativity across the Museum this weekend.

Ancient Sambia (RU)

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"Ancient Sambia" is an archaeological open-air museum about the Viking on the territory of current Lithuania, Poland and Kaliningrad region neighbouring with the Curonian and Vistula lagoons. The local population in those days were Balts (Prussians and Curonians) and Scandinavians.

Visitors can get familiar with the traditional culture and way of life, with the costumes of the Baltic nations in the Viking Age, but also immerse themselves in the Old Norse atmosphere. on the territory of current Lithuania, Poland and Kaliningrad region neighboring with Curonian and Vistula lagoons. The Vikings and their fighting friends tell their secrets, teach rites of initiation into warriorship and visitors can try their hand in amber processing, the manufacture of weapons and shooting bow and arrow.

Slavic Village X Century (RU)

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The city Lyubytino is one of the oldest centers of the Novgorod region. It has numerous historical and architectural monuments. The area is quite rugged with unique natural landscapes, karst lakes, rapids and waterfalls on the rivers White and Priksha.

Among the vast forests in the lake region, between the rivers and waterfalls one thousand years ago, Slavs built their settlements and built relationships with local Finno-Ugric tribes.

Geirsstaðakirkja Turf Church (IS)

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No

In the summer of 1997 archaeological excavations were done in the Hróarstunga area. They found ruins of a large farm from the Viking Era. This included a long house, a small church and two smaller buildingssurounded by a turf wall. The church was built originally in the Commonwealth (930-1262).

The church was probably the home-church of Hróar, son of Uni the Dane, one of East-Iceland's settlers. The church served one farm family only. The building style was common here as well as in Norway.