Midgardsblot 2027: dates, tickets and how to get there
Midgardsblot is a metal and folk music festival held in August at the Borre burial mounds in Horten, Norway, an hour and a half south of Oslo. It is not a Viking market, but it has a Viking camp, a market and talks alongside the stages, and it draws the largest international crowd of any Viking-themed event in the Nordics.
Quick facts
To be announced- Dates
- August 2027, dates not announced
- Hours
- Not confirmed
- Where
- Midgard Viking Centre and Borre Park, Horten, Norway
- Nearest airport
- Sandefjord Torp (TRF), about 30 min
- From Oslo
- 1 h 30 min by train to Skoppum or car on the E18
- Organizer
- Midgardsblot
- Admission
- Ticketed festival. Day and full passes sold online, usually sells out.
- Payment
- Cards only.
- Kids
- Not the main audience. Check the organizer for age limits.
- Dogs
- Not confirmed
- Camping
- Festival camping on site, at the Utgard camp. Reviewers describe it as calm and friendly.
- Accessibility
- Not confirmed
- Language
- English is the working language of the festival.
What is it, honestly
Midgardsblot is a music festival first: black metal, folk and Nordic neo-folk on stages set among the largest collection of monumental Viking Age burial mounds in Scandinavia. Around the music there is a Viking camp with reenactors, a market, lectures from the Midgard Viking Centre and a reconstructed great hall, the Gildehall, that doubles as a venue. If you want a Viking market, this is not it. If you want Wardruna at dusk between thousand-year-old mounds, nothing else compares.
What visitors say
Festival reviewers, from metal zines to travel blogs, land on the same word: atmosphere. The crowd is small by festival standards, a few thousand rather than tens of thousands, and reviewers describe it as warm, international and unusually respectful of the site. The Gildehall as a concert venue, the burial mounds within sight of the stages, the forest and the fjord all come up. The closing torchlight procession down to a bonfire, with the crowd drumming on anything to hand, is the moment most reviews end on.
The daytime program gets credit too: talks and tours from the Midgard Viking Centre, archery, axe throwing, a market with serious traders. The Utgard camp is described as peaceful and well run. Criticism is scarce and mostly about tickets selling out and about the queues for food when the weather is good.
Our take
Midgardsblot is the one event on this site where the music is the reason and the Vikings are the setting, and it is the best of both if that combination appeals to you. Buy tickets when they go on sale, book the camp, and plan a day at the Midgard Viking Centre and the mounds before the first band.
If you have no interest in metal or dark folk, go to the Borre Viking Market on the same site in July instead. Same mounds, same centre, no amplifiers.
Our take is based on visitor reviews, reenactor forums and the organizer’s own program, not on a visit. We say so because we think you should know.
Getting there
Sandefjord Torp Airport is half an hour away with flights from across Europe. From Oslo, trains run to Skoppum with a festival shuttle, or drive the E18 south. Horten has ferries to Moss across the fjord.
Combine with
Borre Viking Market in early July on the same site, and the Museum of the Viking Age in Oslo when it reopens.
Sources
Festival reviews at Metal-Exposure, Chaoszine and Hell on Earth, the official camping page, and Visit Vestfold.
Past editions
- August 12–15, 2026 · Dates from Visit Vestfold and festival listings; not yet checked against midgardsblot.no.
Last checked 2026-09-05 against the organizer's website: Midgardsblot. Dates can change; confirm before you travel. Back to Norway, near Oslo or the full calendar.