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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.
After the market in Hafnarfjörður, we faced 36°C and high humidity in Germany. Hardly being able to exist in this weather, we packed everything we thought we would need for 5.5 weeks, drove north to Copenhagen (thanks to Simon for letting us stay for a night) and then to Sweden. We took a few days to enjoy the Swedish landscape (oh, how I missed that!) and check out Birka, Sigtuna and Gamla Uppsala. Finally, we went to Nynäshamn and participated in the lovely event "I Förfäders Spår", one of the best events we've been to so far. We've made new friends, learned a lot during the workshops and just had an overall good time. Unfortunately, this too came to an end. But we, we still had the Danish markets before us...
Another market we visited for the first time was the Viking Week at the Land of Legends in Lejre. The Land of Legends has what the Archeon doesn't: A lot of space.
After we came back from our summer tour, I happened to read about stoned Vikings at L'anse aux Meadows. Can this be true? Let's go and fact-check...
Having returned from Archeon we flew off to Iceland. We left most of our stuff at home, borrowed a tent for during the day (which we shared with Max (kvalitativt krigsbyte) and Maxi) and totally confused our internal clocks because around that time Night simple does not exist up there.
Wonderful Wool Workster.
Prefers Axes to Seaxes.
