Vidars Horde

Friday, 20 March 2020

Trelleborg Vikingefestival 2020 [DK] Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Angemeldet

Monday, 13 July 2020 – Sunday, 19 July 2020

Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Frühjahrsmarkt in Haithabu 2020 Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Abgesagt

Wednesday, 08 April 2020 – Monday, 13 April 2020

Wurde wegen allgemeiner Coronavirus-Panik-Überreaktion abgesagt. Na danke auch.

Tuesday, 10 March 2020

I Förfäders Spår 2020 [SE] Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Abgesagt

Tuesday, 23 June 2020 – Sunday, 28 June 2020

Leider soll IFS 2020 nicht stattfinden. Schade, wir hätten uns sehr darauf gefreut.

Thursday, 05 March 2020

Sommermarkt Haithabu 2020 Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Angemeldet

Monday, 06 July 2020 – Sunday, 12 July 2020

Wednesday, 26 February 2020

Moesgaard Vikingetræf 2020 [DK] Marktbesuch (privat) Vorgeschlagen

Saturday, 25 July 2020 – Sunday, 26 July 2020

Wir werden nur für eine Nacht als Besucher da sein.

Kriegerwoche 2020 in Ribe [DK] Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Beworben

Sunday, 26 July 2020 – Sunday, 02 August 2020

Sunday, 05 January 2020

Nothing's going on here anymore?

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?

Saturday, 04 January 2020

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?

Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Besuch der Herbstmesse Haithabu 2019 Marktbesuch (privat) Hat stattgefunden

Sunday, 03 November 2019 – Sunday, 03 November 2019

Wir werden incognito als Besucher anzutreffen sein.

Tuesday, 29 October 2019

HIKG 2019

Beautiful weather, nice people and more fighters than ever before at this year's HIKG.

Wednesday, 23 October 2019

HIKG 2019 Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Hat stattgefunden

Wednesday, 09 October 2019 – Sunday, 13 October 2019

Dieses Jahr werden wir zusammen mit den Jungs und Mädels von Haukstaldir lagern.

Ribe Warrior Week 2019

... Ribe. If Lejre was taking a deep breath before the bigger markets, Ribe was like exhaling again, relaxing a little.

Moesgaard Viking Moot 2019

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.

Trelleborg 2019

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.

Tuesday, 01 October 2019

21. Burgmannen-Tage Lager/Markt (öffentlich) Hat stattgefunden

Friday, 27 September 2019 – Sunday, 29 September 2019

Monday, 19 August 2019

I Förfäders Spår 2019

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...

Sagnlandet Lejre 2019

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.

Wednesday, 14 August 2019

OMG! The Vikings smoked pot in Canada! (or did they...?)

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...

Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Hafnarfjörður 2019

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.

Archeon 2019

We started this year's summer tour during Pentecost in the Netherlands at the multi-period park Archeon. A very quiet and atmospheric start. Unfortunately, the park lacked a pair of nice wool combs for demonstrating this part of textile work, but we were able to change that :-) - It was the first time we were at the Archeon (Vil being there once as a child doesn't really count...) and we liked that place, but could not help noticing that everything is quite crowded. That's because the park could not expand area-wise as much as they once wanted to, so they had to put too many periods in too little space. It's still worth the visit, though.