Near Aarhus
Aarhus has the Moesgaard Viking Moot on the beach below the museum every July, and Jelling is an hour south.
The Winter Solstice Market at Fyrkat is a one-day Viking market in December at the reconstructed Viking farm beside Harald Bluetooth's ring fortress outside Hobro, in North Jutland. Vikings from the area have gathered for it since 1996, selling handmade goods in the farm's houses and ending the afternoon with a torch procession at dusk.
The Ribe International Viking Market runs for a full week at the turn of April and May at Ribe VikingeCenter outside Ribe, Denmark's oldest town, about an hour from Billund Airport. With several hundred Vikings from across Europe it is one of the largest Viking markets on the continent, and it opens the Nordic season each year.
The Als Viking Market is held in mid-June at Kær Vestermark in Sønderborg, on the island of Als in southern Denmark, close to the German border. Around 300 Vikings recreate camp life, crafts, combat and storytelling in what the organizers call Denmark's largest non-commercial Viking market.
Moesgaard Viking Days, the Viking Moot, is held over four days in late July on the beach below Moesgaard Museum, twenty minutes south of Aarhus, Denmark. Running since 1977 and drawing more than a thousand Vikings, it is one of the oldest and largest Viking gatherings in the Nordics and known for its mounted and foot battles.
The Aggersborg Viking Craft Meet is held over the last weekend of August at Aggersborg, the largest of Denmark's ring fortresses, on the Limfjord at Aggersund an hour from Aalborg. It is a craft-focused gathering of around a hundred Vikings with live workshops and guided tours of the UNESCO-listed fortress.
Nordfyn Viking Market is a family-oriented two-day market on the first weekend of September in Glavendruplunden, the grove around the Glavendrup rune stone on the island of Funen, twenty-five minutes north of Odense. Around 200 reenactors camp, trade, fight and demonstrate crafts beside Denmark's longest runic inscription.
Vølvens Verden, The Völva's World, is a one-evening Viking event in Hobro, North Jutland, in late September, a lantern-lit walk of about four kilometers from the harbor to Fyrkat ring fortress with Viking ships, a Viking camp and market along the way and a staged völva's prophecy at the longhouse. It is built around a woman buried at Fyrkat whom archaeologists believe was a völva, a Norse seeress.
The Winter Solstice Market at Fyrkat is a one-day Viking market in December at the reconstructed Viking farm beside Harald Bluetooth's ring fortress outside Hobro, in North Jutland. Vikings from the area have gathered for it since 1996, selling handmade goods in the farm's houses and ending the afternoon with a torch procession at dusk.
| Event | Time | By |
|---|---|---|
| Aggersborg Viking Craft Meet | 2 h | Car |
| Als Viking Market | 2 h | Car |
| Fyrkat Winter Solstice Market | 1 h 15 min | Car on the E45 north |
| Moesgaard Viking Days | 20 min | Bus 18 or car |
| Nordfyn Viking Market | n/a | travel time not yet added |
| Ribe International Viking Market | 2 h | Car |
| Vølvens Verden | 1 h 15 min | Car on the E45 north |