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As I archive old posts, but have been getting quite a few new readers lately, there are some things that call for reblogging. You see, a few years ago, Danish photographer Thomas Lekfeldt (working for the newspaper Berlingske), visited a few viking markets, including some of the fighter-meetings in Denmark and us at Gudvangen by the Nærøyfjord in Western-Norway. He captured some of the atmosphere of the meetings, where viking reenactors from all over the world gather to live together for a week or so at a time, escaping the modern "clamor of the wagons" to spend time in nature and sleep under summer skies. This resulted in a media-production with photography and sound recordings, combined with beautiful Icelandic music by Sigur Rós. Click here to read the article and here to watch the video, or see the embedded video file below (property of Berlingske.dk). I could even spot myself there, wearing a brown linen dress in a few of the photos from Gudvangen, and the photographer kindly sent them to me, allowing them to be shared on my blog. 
It should be mentioned that the viking reenactment society involves so much more than what can be captured by a camera. Not only in terms of the arts of historical craftwork, foods, music, sports etc. that were not covered in this production, but mainly in terms of the feeling of meeting fellow history-nerds and good friends (after what is usually a year apart), the joy of new friendships made, and new things learned. # Comments |
 
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