You know you live in Sweden
When you’re not totally surprised to see Viking warriors
Camped outside a tent.
Viking heritage is celebrated around the country
In different events.
This two-day festival took place near my home
And the guest of honour was this beautiful
100-year-old replica of a Viking boat.
Families often dress up
And attend these Viking festivals
Using clothes and equipment that reflect how life was back then —
Even sleeping out
In these comfy-looking tents.
Talk about making history come alive!
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Lady Fi 
Very interesting photos and event. The boat is beautiful. Have a wonderful week!
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Looks really fun. Beautiful pictures
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Beautiful pictures! 🙂
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What a wonderful series, nothing that I would see here. Thanks
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What very authentic costuming and look back at history. If I didn’t know better I would say they stepped out of a time machine from the past.
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Aha! That looks seriously cool!
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great !!!
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How cool! Excellent shots too!
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The detail is superb, thanks Fi.
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This is great. getting chance to be a part of bygone era is awesome. must be fun?
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How interesting and I just love that beautiful Viking boat!
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I see national pride in the the faces, polished beauty in the boats, and celebration everywhere. Nice change of pace, Fiona.
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most interesting photos, Viking lore has always been fascinating to me!
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What fun! I’m sure I have Viking ancestry. I could do with one of those helmets for my bad hair days. Love the gorgeous boat:)
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Hi Fiona,
many years I was selling silver jewellry on medival markets in Germany and also Europe.
I love this special atmosphere on the market places and the costume variations.
Wonderful impressions of the Viking event here !
Best regards, Synnöve
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That’s so cool to have in your backyard. They have civil war camps here in VA. My great grandfather was from Sweden.
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The boat is beautiful and what a fun way to learn history. I’ve been watching the TV show Vikings on the History Channel and enjoying it. Here in the South where I live, we have Civil War re-enactments where everyone dresses in period outfits and they re-enact battles of the Civil War. While war is sad, the re-enactments are a great way to see history come alive.
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That boat is fascinating and so are the tents’ Here in the USA we have re-enactors of the mountain men, the Civil War and other historic people.
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How fun….and entertaining and educational!! What a great series of images, and lovin’ the share Fi!!
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Interesting and great photos!
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Charming medieval festival
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Reminds me of some parties I went to in my youth…… Fun shots!
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What a wonderful sight and that viking boat replica looks superb! 🙂
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so cool. those men look the part. 🙂
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LOVE that boat. Hooray for bringing history to life. And hooray for not having to live without running hot water.
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What a wonderful festival. I would love to attend one of them. Love that ship. You captured so much detail. genie
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That looks like fun – I’d love to see replicas like those.
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Oh, how WONDERFUL! That would be so cool to experience!!!…:)JP
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Interesting topic and fantastic photos, which set fire on my imagination of the bygone days of faraway region.
Yoko
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I love the blue eye peeking of the little viking. Sweet! I love the outfit.
Fun, thank you for sharing,
Carla
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This is very cool – I’d love to attend an enactment like this!
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Fiona, as one of your readers (Christina) shared, Viking lore has always been fascinating to me too! Sweden, as well, has always held an interest for me. I have a feeling that I would love Sweden!
Gorgeous photographs! The craftsmanship and detail in that Viking boat are AMAZING!
Grrrreat post, my friend! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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A memorable slice of history!
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Nice shots. Great way to celebrate an heritage.
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How wonderful. I am interested to learn more about the Vikings.
http://calrat.blogspot.com
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Interesting photos and event, how nice to see the Vikings !
The first photo is my preferred !
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Interesting topic and fabulous pictures.
Viking boat replica looks super.
Bets regards, Irma
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What wonderful shots. And they put so much care into reproducing the techniques of the time!
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Hello Fiona,
This is fantastic!! Great to see all in these legendary clothes from the past. Very impressive!!
It gives you very nice and special shots!! Great!!
Kind regards,
Marco
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Great show of things long forgotten. Very nice.
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that is cool 🙂
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Stunning captures… the show sounds magnificent with historical touch… 🙂
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Fint foto och toppen motiv.. Kram Nicki
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Always nice to have an insight into the past that made the present. 🙂
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An interesting and festive way to keep traditions alive!
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Great serie. I think that festival is great.
hugs
· LMA · & · CR ·
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That would have been something for me ! My husband (Italian) always calls me Vikinga, lol !
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Great post! 🙂
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That looks like fun!
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Very interesting photos.
He admired the boats Vikings in Oslo.
Greetings.
Lucja
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Wonderful choice of the Vikings for V!
Wil, ABCWTeam
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What a great Visit.
I like the Vikings…..
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this would be very cool to attend.
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We have many living history events in Virginia but not Vikings, so far.
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O d’em Vikings.
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Great shots and so interesting! I love the ship. Maybe one of my forebears sailed in one of those.
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Interesting event described with great pictures!
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Beautiful pics
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Fantastic photos! The woodworking on that boat is amazing and beautiful!
Some time in the recent past, Blogger saw fit to remove about 50 blogs from my reading list. They gave me a reason, but it didn’t make any sense to me. Anyway, your blog appears to have been one of them. It’s taken me awhile to find which blogs it was (I’m still not done yet). I’m adding you back in as soon as I finish this comment.
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Glad we’ve found each other again!
Lady Fi wrote: > >
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Beautiful series, very nice and interesting photos
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I like that, specially the clothing.
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COOL! I have actually never seen them 🙂
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Wonderful series of photo’s.
I haven’t got a favourite I loved every one of them.
All the best Jan
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Thank you so much. Do you have a blog I can visit?
Lady Fi wrote: > >
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That’s so cool!!! My husband and I would love to see all that. We love watching a TV series here in the US called Vikings. I am going to show my husband your site.
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Wow, that was really a surprise (at least to me! 🙂 ) Thanks.
Greetings from London.
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Amazing. What a sight that would be. You don’t see it every day around here. 🙂
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this is so great!
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Looks like a wonderful festival tracing back the history though these vintage collections
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That’s a beautiful way to celebrate life (and history)!
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Absolutely fabulous photos. Looks like you have travelled back in time
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Wonderful to see.
Real Vikings. Very nice photographed!
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oh this looks like it was a great fun ‘event’ .. sort of like our Civil War reenactments … but with better photo ops
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those details are so fascinating! Love the boat and the helmet 🙂
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What fun for you! 🙂
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What a fabulous event! I went to a medieval festival recently too and my post of scheduled to come out soon. I would have therefore loved this event! Great photos Fi.
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How wonderful. I’d love to see that for real,
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