Vidars Horde

Monday, 11 March 2019

Wool combs in the Viking Age - the evidence

We write a lot about wool combs and at the markets, we explain and demonstrate how they were used. But what is the actual evidence for those tools?

Monday, 25 February 2019

Viking market in Hafnarfjörður Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Beworben

Monday, 10 June 2019 – Monday, 17 June 2019

Veranstalter-Webseite

Friday, 22 February 2019

Wikingermarkt im Sagnlandet Lejre Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Vorgeschlagen

Monday, 08 July 2019 – Friday, 12 July 2019

Thursday, 14 February 2019

The research continues!

The blog post might have gotten fewer during the last months, but that does not mean that we are hibernating in a corner like some bat, waiting for spring. On the contrary, we are working, researching and trying out stuff.

Monday, 11 February 2019

I Förfäders Spår Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Angemeldet

Tuesday, 02 July 2019 – Sunday, 07 July 2019

Veranstalter-Webseite

Tuesday, 15 January 2019

Kriegerwoche 2019 in Ribe Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Beworben

Monday, 29 July 2019 – Sunday, 04 August 2019

Trelleborg Vikingefestival 2019 Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Beworben

Sunday, 14 July 2019 – Monday, 22 July 2019

Thursday, 10 January 2019

National Museum Copenhagen 2018

When visiting Copenhagen at the end of 2018, we took the opportunity and went to the National Museum. We would like to share some impressions from that visit with you; but careful! The pictures show artifacts from Denmark's Bronze Age up the the Middle Ages, so the Viking stuff is somewhere in between.

Wikinger in Archeon Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Vorgeschlagen

Saturday, 08 June 2019 – Monday, 10 June 2019

Saturday, 22 December 2018

A small midwinter feast

This year we decided to really enjoy midwinter. The precious beeswax candles were lit and the troughs were filled with a delicious meal. We took inspiration for the food from the book "An Early Meal" by Daniel Serra and Hanna Tunberg, however, we had to slightly change some recipes...

Thursday, 06 December 2018

About us

Vidars Horde is an early medieval reenactment/living-history group from Velbert (Ruhr area, Germany). We represent a Life in Birka/Lake Mälaren (Sweden), around a.d. 900. Our primary fields of interest are wood-, and leatherworking as well as textile production and handicraft.

Wednesday, 05 December 2018

Ása Guðrúnsdóttir

No info about Asa yet-For Ása (almost) everything revolves around textiles, starting with the sheep and the different qualities of the fleece up to the finished piece. Depending on her status and place in the social hierarchy, different aspects of textile handicraft would have been in the focus of her own work.

Monday, 03 December 2018

Frühlingsmarkt Haithabu 2019 Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Angemeldet

Wednesday, 17 April 2019 – Monday, 22 April 2019

Zum Saisonbeginn nach Haithabu zu reisen ist für uns mittlerweile zur Tradition geworden, welcher wir auch dieses Mal wieder freudig entgegenschauen.

Sunday, 11 November 2018

HIKG 2018

Tuesday, 16 October 2018

Moesgaard Vikingetræf 2019 Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Beworben

Monday, 22 July 2019 – Monday, 29 July 2019

Herbstfest & Die 10. Große Schlacht (HIKG 2018) Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Hat stattgefunden

Wednesday, 10 October 2018 – Sunday, 14 October 2018

Wir werden uns dieses Jahr den Jungs und Mädels von Swafaborg anschließen und auf der Kämpferwiese lagern, denn auf das Adventon-Orga-Chaos und Lagern zwischen Fellwikis und Rittern aus dem 13. JH haben wir keine Lust mehr.

Tuesday, 02 October 2018

Ribe 2018

Monday, 01 October 2018

Building Big Man

Tuesday, 18 September 2018

A small harvest...

There are many signs in nature that Equinox is fast approaching and the summer season is coming to an end. One of these signs, of course, is the ripening of fruits, be it in the garden or outside of it. Last weekend we left our home to find some of the wild fruits...

Men's clothing: the cloak

It doesn't matter whether it is for protection against wind and rain or for displaying one's wealth and status: The cloak is one of the most important parts of a man's dress in early medieval Europe. Direct archaeological finds, however, are rare and usually quite small. The following article explores some of the archaeological evidence from the Viking Age. It is most certainly not comprehensive, but gives a rough overview over some of the most important finds.