Viking life, living history, experimental archeology, reenactment, history, craft.
As we drove home from the mid winter blot and the viking winter games this year, we drove past a ruin that I have been wanting to stop by and have a closer look at for many years. This time we were finally able to. I always believed that this ruin used to be a …
Continue reading The ruins of Sunne church and defense tower, Orreviken, Sweden
Every year around mid winter, Trondheim vikinglag travels to Norderön to compete against our friends Österhus vänner in the annual Viking Winter games. We have the competition with lots of games and fun, followed by a very powerful and beautiful blot and then a feast and a party of course. Österhus vänner have built a …
Last summer me and Christofer traveled back to Lund and Uppåkra to revisit the amazing event called Vendeltidsdagarna at Uppåkra Arkeologiska Center outside Lund in Sweden. Uppåkra was a very important place during the Vendel period and a lot of archaeological artifacts have been found at the site.I hope these series of post from previous …
So, this is a bit of a throwback, but as I am going through a lot of my pictures these days, I realized I never posted pictures from Vendeltidsdagarna at Uppåkra, not from either of the years I've been there.I hope my series of post from previous markets and events can help you find some …
Trondheim viking market is and will always be very special to me. I was involved in the creation of Trondheim vikinglag and with it the festival as well. I have been active in arrange the festival every single year since we started (except this year).As I wrote yesterday in the post about Leikvin viking market, …
Today it would have been 54 days until the first event of the season. Sadly, this event and a lot of other events this year have already been canceled because of this pandemic we have over us. It is a bit sad to think about, but also we just have to accept it and move …
Tonje Rogersdatter - My historical life 