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Back home after a weekend at my first viking market of the year, feeling tired and happy. ^^ Just got out from a long shower, and finished unpacking all of the bits and bobs that are involved in viking reenactment. My livingroom is full of drying sheepskins and my kitchen is full of wooden plates, iron and ceramics, and I've got the smell of campfire in the whole apartment and moss on my pillows. Viking season is on. I love it! 
This weekends faire was Bjørgvin Viking & Medieval Market, with the local reenactment group of which I am a member (Bjørgvin is the old name of our town). The weather was shifting throughout the weekend with periods of boiling hot sun, wind (the kind that makes flatbread and money fly through the camp), heavy rain, you name it. But a certain German genious had put up a large round communal campfiretent with skins and rugs on the floor, which made us able to keep dry and stay partying all night around the fire, singing, laughing and sharing bottle upon bottle of mead and ale, while unfortunate peoples shoes got soaking wet and the grass turned into a mud pit outside. I came Thursday afternoon and stayed in the fighter-camp, where I rented a small Oseberg-tent. Nice and cozy. And waterproof! 
BTW, this is how one cuts vegetables in a fighter-camp: 
And how to lift a hot pot from the fire! 
Viking shopping! I didn't buy that much this year, but I did bring home a new wooden bucket made by Mirek, a bottle of red mead, a nice ceramic mug and, quite fittingly, a little valkyrie (replica from finding in Tune, Sweden) to hang in between my glass beads. :) 
So much beautiful scenery, many happy moments and nice people to photograph! 
And Saturday evening there was even a wedding, when Siren and Helge tied the knot! 
"You may now kiss the groom!" 
And the party went on into the night, and the sun went down and rose again before I found my way to my tent :) 
As of now, I'm sitting on the couch drinking tea from my new mug, planning next next weekends' adventures. I'll be travelling with friends to Hafrsfjord, to visit their market for the first time. But first, a few days in the modern society... Which reminds me; time to go to bed! 
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