Gudvangen Viking Market 2015, Norway
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Looks great bet you had fun going back to Flam and got caught up with old friends, and I hope you didn't loose Fionn for to long with the animals
haha cheers Pete, aye she was gone as soon as there were any animals (which was a lot more than you would expect at a viking market)
Amazing. What a place.
What do they know about the historical context of the area, I mean, a thousand years ago, was there a real viking village in that spot? Or what? Was it a port....Did they organise their raids from there? Would it have been forested? etc etc
Its just such a beautiful location.
Your new website looks really good btw. Hamish.
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Hi Fellas, thanks 
Dave, I think Gudvangen was definitely a norse settlement. I don't know about being a settlement for raids, but there was certainly a viking-age community there. Due to the landscape, it would have mostly resembled much of how it still does today I reckon.
Just found this picture somebody took of me at the market haha, I think I had just smelt/seen the chicken broth being unveiled!
Hamish Half-Goat Odinson by Hamish Odinson, on Flickr
Dave, I think Gudvangen was definitely a norse settlement. I don't know about being a settlement for raids, but there was certainly a viking-age community there. Due to the landscape, it would have mostly resembled much of how it still does today I reckon.
Just found this picture somebody took of me at the market haha, I think I had just smelt/seen the chicken broth being unveiled!
Hamish Half-Goat Odinson by Hamish Odinson, on Flickr
Hi Fellas, thanks
Dave, I think Gudvangen was definitely a norse settlement. I don't know about being a settlement for raids, but there was certainly a viking-age community there. Due to the landscape, it would have mostly resembled much of how it still does today I reckon.
Just found this picture somebody took of me at the market haha, I think I had just smelt/seen the chicken broth being unveiled!
Only spoilt by the time travelling Dr Who and his white dinner jacket.
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Somebody, somewhere is having a Toffeecrisp/Babycham!
Good picture.
Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.
hahahah that's the sum of it!
Every time
Can't wait to go back next year!
more so when up in the mountains around the area which are unchanged for thousands of years, unlike the more habitable areas that go through many changes. It's a really fascinating place to be just on a day to day basis.
What a wonderful thread! I really enjoyed all the lovely pictures
I remember the archer on the horse from a small show we did many years ago. I was on the medieval side so I had nothing to do with his part, but he was actually the one that inspired me to buy my own horse bow.
I was at the vikingmarket at Tingvatn this year, but the scenery can´t compare to Gudvangen.
I remember the archer on the horse from a small show we did many years ago. I was on the medieval side so I had nothing to do with his part, but he was actually the one that inspired me to buy my own horse bow.
I was at the vikingmarket at Tingvatn this year, but the scenery can´t compare to Gudvangen.
Amazing. What a place.
What do they know about the historical context of the area, I mean, a thousand years ago, was there a real viking village in that spot? Or what? Was it a port....Did they organise their raids from there? Would it have been forested? etc etc
Its just such a beautiful location.
Your new website looks really good btw. Hamish.
I had a conversation with Georg about the site a few years ago.
If I recall correctly, he said the bit they use for the Viking festival is reclaimed land produced using rubble from the construction of a local tunnel.
There may well have been a local settlement in the area though, we didn't discuss that.
What a wonderful thread! I really enjoyed all the lovely pictures
I remember the archer on the horse from a small show we did many years ago. I was on the medieval side so I had nothing to do with his part, but he was actually the one that inspired me to buy my own horse bow.
I was at the vikingmarket at Tingvatn this year, but the scenery can´t compare to Gudvangen.
fantastic, I hope to do more markets there in the future, there is just no place else like it
Aye right you are Wayland, it's the same with the qai (sp?) in Flam I think. It is the sort of place you might find a settlement though, being easily accessible by sognefjord which is a major gateway, and having good land for sheep/goats with the mountain pastures.
They have definitely got Viking age graves in the area and the name of the place looks like it means "Place of the God's" or something like that.
Having driven through there in the past I can see why it might get that name. It's an awe inspiring place.
Having driven through there in the past I can see why it might get that name. It's an awe inspiring place.
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