https://vikingseason.com/ The calendar of Viking festivals and Viking markets in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Finland. Dates, tickets, how to get there, and whether each one is worth the trip. en-us https://vikingseason.com/events/lofotr-viking-festival/ https://vikingseason.com/events/lofotr-viking-festival/#2026 The Lofotr Viking Festival is held in August at the Lofotr Viking Museum in Borg, in the Lofoten Islands above the Arctic Circle in Norway. The museum is built around the largest Viking Age longhouse ever found, and the festival is the most remote major Viking event in the Nordics. https://vikingseason.com/events/ribe-viking-market/ https://vikingseason.com/events/ribe-viking-market/#2027 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. https://vikingseason.com/events/avaldsnes-viking-festival/ https://vikingseason.com/events/avaldsnes-viking-festival/#2027 The Avaldsnes Viking Festival is held in early June at the Viking farm on Bukkøy, Karmøy, twenty minutes from Haugesund Airport on Norway's west coast. Avaldsnes was the seat of Harald Fairhair, Norway's first king, and the festival is the largest of its kind in western Norway, with more than 200 Vikings camping on the island. https://vikingseason.com/events/foteviken-viking-market/ https://vikingseason.com/events/foteviken-viking-market/#2027 Foteviken Viking Market is held in late June at the Foteviken Museum in Höllviken, Sweden, about 50 minutes from Copenhagen Airport across the Øresund Bridge. It is the largest Viking market in Scandinavia, with several hundred reenactors camping on site for four days. https://vikingseason.com/events/gamla-uppsala-viking-festival/ https://vikingseason.com/events/gamla-uppsala-viking-festival/#2027 The Gamla Uppsala Viking Festival is held in mid-June at the royal burial mounds outside Uppsala, 45 minutes north of Stockholm by train. It is Sweden's largest Viking Age festival, with reenactors from several countries camping beside the mounds and around 3,000 visitors over the weekend. https://vikingseason.com/events/hafnarfjordur-viking-festival/ https://vikingseason.com/events/hafnarfjordur-viking-festival/#2027 The Hafnarfjörður Viking Festival runs for four to six days around mid-June in Víðistaðatún park, fifteen minutes from downtown Reykjavík. It is Iceland's oldest and largest Viking festival, it is free to enter, and it is the easiest Viking festival in the Nordics to fit into an existing trip. https://vikingseason.com/events/birka-viking-weeks/ https://vikingseason.com/events/birka-viking-weeks/#2027 Birka Viking Weeks run for most of July on Björkö island in Lake Mälaren, two hours by boat from central Stockholm. Birka was Sweden's first town and a major Viking Age trading port, and the weeks fill the reconstructed village with reenactors and craftspeople. https://vikingseason.com/events/moesgaard-viking-days/ https://vikingseason.com/events/moesgaard-viking-days/#2027 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. https://vikingseason.com/events/trelleborg-viking-festival-denmark/ https://vikingseason.com/events/trelleborg-viking-festival-denmark/#2027 The Trelleborg Viking Festival is held over nine days in mid-July at the Trelleborg ring fortress near Slagelse, an hour west of Copenhagen. It is Denmark's largest Viking festival, with more than a thousand Vikings in some 350 tents and a craft market of over 60 stalls, at a fortress that has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2023. https://vikingseason.com/events/lofotr-viking-festival/ https://vikingseason.com/events/lofotr-viking-festival/#2027 The Lofotr Viking Festival is held in August at the Lofotr Viking Museum in Borg, in the Lofoten Islands above the Arctic Circle in Norway. The museum is built around the largest Viking Age longhouse ever found, and the festival is the most remote major Viking event in the Nordics. https://vikingseason.com/events/midgardsblot/ https://vikingseason.com/events/midgardsblot/#2027 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.