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Viking festival

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9 Jul 2027—16 Jul 2027

The world of the Vikings and present-day merge at Trelleborg. Look forward to nine days where you step into history with bonfires, swords, and the great Battle of Trelleborg.

At the Viking Festival in Trelleborg, the year 980 will be recreated with tent camps, crafts, and everyday life. You can watch the blacksmith at work, see glass beads being formed over an open fire, shop at the stalls, listen to Viking music played on historical instruments, and, of course, experience the Battle of Trelleborg.

Look forward to 2027, when we’ll once again host the Viking Festival in Trelleborg.

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Denmark's largest Viking market

Come and meet Denmark's largest collection of reenactors with the widest variety of skills and crafts. Here, you will find blacksmiths, glass bead makers, leatherworkers, weavers, woodcarvers, and coopers working with authentic Viking Age methods. At the market square, you can trade with Vikings selling everything from homespun clothing and forged weapons to mead, jewelry, and leatherwork.
Viking-dressed people dancing in a circle in front of the reconstructed longhouse at Trelleborg during the Viking festival in the evening sun.

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Viking warriors shouting victory cries with raised axes during Trelleborg's Viking festival, while spectators watch.

The Battle of Trelleborg

The last four days of the festival culminate in the Battle of Trelleborg, where 250 heavily armed warriors fight at the Viking fortress. Battle songs are shouted across the square, swords clash against shields, and horns sound throughout the UNESCO World Heritage Site at 1 p.m. every day from Thursday, July 16, to Sunday, July 19. Arrive no later than 11 a.m. to experience the warriors' preparations and the atmosphere that builds up to the start of the battle.
Viking warriors shouting victory cries with raised axes during Trelleborg's Viking festival, while spectators watch.

In the heat of the battle

Viking warriors with decorated shields and spears face off during the Battle of Trelleborg, while spectators watch from the ramparts.
Viking warriors with decorated shields and spears face off during the Battle of Trelleborg, while spectators watch from the ramparts.
Viking warriors in chainmail with shields in close combat during the Battle of Trelleborg at the Viking festival.
Viking warriors in chainmail with shields in close combat during the Battle of Trelleborg at the Viking festival.
A group of Vikings with shields, swords, and spears
A group of Vikings with shields, swords, and spears
Two Viking warriors crossing swords during a combat demonstration at Trelleborg's Viking festival.
Two Viking warriors crossing swords during a combat demonstration at Trelleborg's Viking festival.

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Discover four sides of the Viking worlds

The Viking Age was more than just raids. Discover other aspects of the period, such as the traders at the stalls, the craftsmen in the workshops, and family life in the tent camp. At the festival, trade, crafts, combat, and everyday life merge into a living Viking community, where every corner of the site tells its own story.
Three people in Viking clothing around a campfire

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Aerial photo of Trelleborg, The Viking Fortress

Danish history and world heritage

During the Viking Festival, Trelleborg comes to life when hundreds of Vikings set up camp in the exact spot where their ancestors lived over a thousand years ago. Trelleborg is one of Denmark's five Viking fortresses and has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a monument to Harald Bluetooth's powerful kingdom in the 10th century.
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Aerial photo of Trelleborg, The Viking Fortress