Vidars Horde is an early medieval reenactment/living-history couple living in the middle of Schleswig-Holstein, 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.
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Wir werden sehr spontan für ein Paar Tage zusammen mit Ylgja und Gisli in Ribe das Gästehaus beleben.
Approximately 30km away from Sweden's capital Stockholm, in lake Mälaren, lies Björkö - a small island with great history. For Björkö is covered in Viking Age burials1 , some visible as grave mounds, others hidden beneath the soil. At the western border of the then-shoreline (which changed due to Scandinavia's post-glacial land rebounce) lies a former fortification surrounded by a rampart ("Borg"). North of this fortification is an area which, because of the dark colour of the soil, got the name "Svarta Jorden" - "the Black Earth"2 . Beneath this area rests a Viking Age town. Probably the first town to be founded in Sweden: Birka.
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Da auch das Wikinger-Museum für den Rest des Jahres 2020 geschlossen bleibt, wurde auch der Sommermarkt abgesagt. So haben wir halt Zeit für andere Dinge...
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Wurde wegen allgemeiner Coronavirus-Panik-Überreaktion abgesagt. Na danke auch.
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Leider soll IFS 2020 nicht stattfinden. Schade, wir hätten uns sehr darauf gefreut.
We have been unusually inactive on this website in the last couple of months - apart from some gallery-uploads and article-updates. What's wrong?
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?
Beautiful weather, nice people and more fighters than ever before at this year's HIKG.
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Dieses Jahr werden wir zusammen mit den Jungs und Mädels von Haukstaldir lagern.
... Ribe. If Lejre was taking a deep breath before the bigger markets, Ribe was like exhaling again, relaxing a little.
After Trelleborg came Moesgaard, of course. Moesgaard was as mixed an experience as always. Due to limited space, it can't grow in size, so it's really, really crowded.
This year we spent around ten days at Trelleborg. We also re-united with our friends Dany and Micha, with whom we spent the market at Archeon and who would from then on travel with us until Ribe, where they could only stay for a few days.
Wonderful Wool Workster.
Prefers Axes to Seaxes.
