Live like a Viking

Make a journey one thousand years back in time! There you can meet the Vikings, take part in their everyday life and experience a real Viking fight. In Trelleborg you can do the time travel this summer. Here, Vikings from Europe will gather for a week in July to trade, make handicraft and test their strength in traditional warfare. Meet the successors of Harald Bluetooth, SvenTwo beard and other Vikings. Situated on the northern side of the Baltic Coast, Trelleborg is the southernmost city in Sweden. Twenty years ago archeologists made a unique find, the remaining of a Viking fortress dated back to 980 AD. This was the first fortress to be found in Scania, formerly East Denmark.

Today, a part of the ring shaped castle is rebuilt on its original site in centre of Trelleborg. Situated in a park, designed in Viking stile, with a Viking museum, it is the perfect place to give a try to the authentic Viking life-taste the food, prepared over open fire, try to make a typical handicraft and see what a Viking bed room looked like. You also find several other buildings, constructed in an ancient way where you can experience other aspects of the traditional Viking life. In the summer, modern Vikings from all over Europe travel across the continent to live the life their ancestors did one thousand years ago. Every year the Viking Market and the battle attract numerous visitors to Trelleborg and the Trelleborgen.

There are plenty other things to discover in Trelleborg, e.g. the southernmost point in Scandinavia, the Smygehuk, 32 kilometers of white, sandy beaches, small farm villages and be acquainted with the Scanian cuisine.