What we do is often called reenactment or living history. It’s a great way to bring history to life. Ways we bring the Viking Age to life are often through crafts and historical cooking. We make clothes and shoes, we make our own equipment and food in a historical way. In order to recreate or create interpretations of clothing and equipment they had in the Viking Age, we use archaeological and historical sources as aids. It is important for us to have as historically correct interpretations as possible, and this is important to be able to convey the period in a good, educational and interesting way.As part of our dissemination, we often travel around to other Viking markets throughout Europe. Sometimes we travel together as a team, other times individual members travel. When we are at a historic market, we leave everything modern behind, we cook over the fire and sleep in tents. In addition, we are engaged by external actors to convey history. In June, we organize our own brand in Trondheim. You can read more about it here.
Member activities
For our members, we also have monthly members’ evenings where we do crafts together, among otherthings. From time to time we also arrange pub evenings or cafe meetings to be able to socialize together.
Trondheim vikinglag consists of many people with a lot of knowledge and we try to hold courses in various crafts as often as we get the chance. We also have courses with external course instructors from near and far. Please let us know if you have a wish for a course or if you have any questions regarding our member evenings.
Do you want to become a member with us?
If you think what we are doing sounds exciting and interesting, you can of course become a member of Trondheim vikinglag. You become a member by sending us an email at blimeldem@trondheimvikinglag.no
We have no religious or political agenda, and we strongly distance ourselves from racism, discrimination, bullying and other unwanted behaviour!
Do you want to learn even more about us? Listen to a P3 Dokumentar about us and the Viking life here.
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