Sweden
Sweden has the largest single Viking market in Scandinavia at Foteviken and a cluster of events around Stockholm and Lake Mälaren, including Birka, the original Viking town.
Ale Viking Market opens the Swedish season on the first weekend of May at Ale Vikingagård, a reconstructed Viking farm in Nödinge, twenty-five minutes north of Gothenburg. Traders and reenactors from across Europe use it as the first stop of the year.
The Vetlanda Viking Market is held over the last weekend of May in Kvarndammsparken, a park in the centre of Vetlanda in the Småland highlands, about two and a half hours from Gothenburg. Run by the Emådalen Vikings, it is a small early-season market with crafts, combat and music.
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.
Foteviken Viking Market is held in late June at Foteviken Viking Village 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 over the market weekend.
Årsunda Viking is a reconstructed ninth-century Viking farm beside a lake in Gästrikland, two and a half hours north of Stockholm, run by the volunteer association Fafner. For two weeks in July it is staffed by people in costume with daily demonstrations of storytelling, fire making, games and dress, and archery to try.
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.
Fröja Thing is a Viking market held over the last weekend of July at VikingaTider, an archaeological open-air museum on the Lödde river in Löddeköpinge, Skåne, fifteen minutes from Lund and under an hour from Copenhagen. It is a small, family-priced market on the site of a real Viking Age trading place.
The Stallarholmen Viking Festival is held over the first weekend of July on the shore of Lake Mälaren at Stallarholmen, near Strängnäs, about an hour west of Stockholm. It is a mid-sized market and camp with a strong children's program, run by the local Viking association since 2013.
Storholmen Viking Summer runs for most of July at the Storholmen Viking Museum, an open-air village by Lake Erken outside Norrtälje, about an hour north of Stockholm. It is a living-history season rather than a weekend market, with reenactors in residence, guided tours and hands-on crafts.
The Battle of Trelleborgen is a Viking market and festival held over the first weekend of July at Trelleborgen, a partly reconstructed ring fortress in the town of Trelleborg on Sweden's south coast, half an hour from Malmö. It is the weekend after Foteviken and 25 minutes east of it.
Hornbore Ting is a three-day Viking market held over the first weekend of August at Hoge Slott, just south of Hamburgsund on the Bohuslän coast, an hour and forty minutes north of Gothenburg. It has traders from across Europe, Viking boats on the water and a single ticket that covers all three days.
The Viking Age Autumn Market at Gunnes gård is held on the first weekend of September at a reconstructed Viking farm in Upplands Väsby, twenty minutes north of Stockholm by commuter train. Admission is free, around 6,000 people come over the two days, and it is the easiest Viking market to reach from central Stockholm.
The Gudahagen Viking Market closes the Swedish season on the third weekend of September at Gudahagen, an Iron Age settlement site in Näsum, north-east Skåne, half an hour from Kristianstad. It is a well-established market with craftspeople from across Sweden and Europe and a staged battle.