• Language
    • Svenska
    • Suomeksi
    • English
    • Deutsch
    • Русский
  • Press & Media
  • Sustainability
  • Cruise
  • Åland Convention Bureau
  • Tourist information

Visit Åland Visit Åland

  • Events
  • Travel
    • Information about coronavirus
    • Book your journey to Åland
    • Travelling around Åland
    • Make your travels as eco-friendly as possible
    • By private boat to Åland
    • Travel agencies
    • Passports and visas
    • Maps of Åland
  • Stay
    • Cottages
    • Hotel, B&B, apartment, camping
    • Eco-friendly accommodation close to nature
  • Eating out
    • Culinary Åland
    • Eat well and sustainably
    • Restaurants
    • Cafés & lunch restaurants
    • Pizzerias & takeaways
    • Pubs, bars & nightclubs
    • Farm shops
    • Grocery stores
    • The oldest champagne found at the bottom of the sea
    • The world’s oldest beer has been recreated
  • Do
    • To do and see in Åland
    • Events calendar
    • Ten sustainable activities
    • Active holiday in Åland – exercise and compete
    • Hiking and nature trails
    • Lookout towers
    • Boat excursions & taxi boats
    • Biking and motorcycling
    • Golf
    • Kayaking
    • Sport fishing
    • Sailing and boating
    • Children’s favourites in Åland
    • School trip to Åland
    • Bathing
    • Museums & Attractions
    • Design & Handicraft
    • Shopping
    • Sports
    • Wellness
    • Entertainment & nightlife
    • Archipelago weddings and fabulous parties
    • Experience autumn in Åland
    • Discover winter in Åland
    • Midsummer in Åland
  • Facts
    • Brochures
    • Service
    • The environment is important to Ålanders
    • Åland Nature and the Right of Public Access
    • Åland History
    • Good to know
    • Lemström Canal
    • Mariehamn
    • Health care and defibrillators
    • Emergency numbers
    • Boating and sea rescue
  • Accessible Åland
    • Accessible Åland
    • Inventory of facilities’ accessibility
    • Getting there
    • Travelling around Åland
    • Travel agencies
    • Free entry for assistants
  • Conference
    • Åland Convention Bureau
    • Conference organisers
    • The conference and group tour leads to Åland
    • Conference and group activities from A to Z
  • Map
  • Accommodation
  • Activites
  • Ferries

Experience a Viking market on traditional soil

The Viking market in Saltvik Kvarnbo on the last weekend in July will propel you right into the world of the Vikings. In the crowds you will meet bearded Vikings and bejewelled women in beautiful costumes. It takes 25 minutes by car from Mariehamn and 25 from Eckerö. Buses go there every day.

Old Viking location

Saltvik is among the parts of Åland that were first to come out of the sea and have been inhabited the longest. In the Kvarnbo area there are several ancient remains and graves especially from the late Iron Age and Viking times from 800 to 1000 AD.

New archaeological finds of bronze adornments to costumes dating back to between the 500s AD and the end of Viking times have established that the Kvarnbo area includes a fixed ancient monument containing a large-scale building about 12×40 metres in size, a would-be hall.

There are parallels in the Mälaren area in Sweden but not in the eastern parts of the Baltic Sea region. It strengthens the hypotheses that the area had a particular significance during the late Iron Age and was a trade and commerce hub.

Displays of arts and craftsvikingmarknad-one

The Viking market gets about 10,000 visitors and has become a hugely popular event that is one of the largest of its kind in Scandinavia. You can meet modern Vikings from Swedish, Finnish, British, German and Polish Viking associations. Viking-style songs and music alternate with weapon games and training in the art of combat.

It all starts with a magnificent entrance by Vikings and banners and several different medieval music groups will be appearing during the days. The Fornföreningen Fibula association’s own battle group Holmgers Hird, together with Huskarlarna from Sweden and other warriors from different countries, will demonstrate fighting techniques and Viking combat.

You will also find craftspeople at the market: leather tanners, blacksmiths, jewellers and silversmiths who make beautiful articles for everyday use as well as objects d’art using ancient methods, and of course a large number of sellers of other arts and crafts, textiles and home-baked bread.

Banquets and parties – and a Viking ship

The food is typically in the style of the Vikings and there are plenty of excellent dishes to choose from. The Café Knarren is located inside the Viking village. It sells light meals and drinks such as coffee, beer and wine. The Knarren is open during the Viking market. If it gets hot wearing a Viking tunic, it’s good to know that it’s just a 500-metre walk from the Viking village to the beach.

Masses of children’s activities make the Viking market a proper family event. Jesters and a children’s performance with fables and a fire show are usually popular. Check the up-to-date times on the events calendar and the detailed programme on Fibula’s website.

Fibula also organises summer camps for children, banquets and parties, and courses. In addition they have built a Viking ship, Borge Swyn. Building the Viking ship has been a long process and one of the association’s biggest projects, but now she has been taken down to Saltvik, rigged with square sails and is ready to set off on shorter or longer voyages.

Tickets

The tickets can be purchased in advance in Mariehamn at the shop Tyger & Sånt on Torggatan 4, as well as in Godby at Mattssons on Von Knorringsvägen 2. You can also buy the tickets via our online booking on visitaland.com. 

The tickets can be bought also at the entrance and you can pay with card or cash.


Welcome to the Viking Market!

Tags

  • Viking Fair

Come and meet modern Vikings from Swedish, Finnish, British, German and Polish Viking associations. Viking-style songs and music alternate with weapon games and training in the art of combat.

Related links

Viking market 23−25 July 2020Homepage

Buses to the marketTimetable 2019

Experience a Viking market on traditional soil

Welcome to the Viking market in Saltvik Kvarnbo that will propel you right into the world of the Vikings where Viking-style songs and music alternate with weapon games and training in the art of combat. Come and meet modern Vikings from several countries and Viking associations.

Tags

  • Viking Fair

Read more


Our Partners

New luxurious experiences

Let us pamper you. Enjoy the holiday atmosphere on a Silja Line ship to the Åland Islands, while enjoying spending time with friends or family, feasting on delicious food, making great, affordable finds in our shop and letting our top entertainers carry you away. After a couple of twirls on the dance floor you’re there.
 
 
 
  • Read more and book on www.tallinksilja.com

To Åland in two hours

In just two hours you will travel to Åland with Eckerö Linjen and only one click from here we give you many reasons to book the rest of your holiday with us.

  • Accommodation in cottage, guest house or hotel
  • Travel packages including boat trip, accommodation and activities
  • Group travel and conferences

You can call it a wide range of options. We call it complete travel packages!

  • www.eckerolinjen.se

Take the red ships to Åland

It is easy to travel to Åland with Viking Line. Our ships call at Åland several times per day from both Finland and Sweden and the fun starts on board. Viking Line will help you book the travel package.

  • Individual travel with ferry, accommodation and events ashore
  • Group travel and conference
  • Sports- and school trips

Accommodation at hotel or cottage

  • For more information visit our website

  • Terms of Use & Privacy
  • Subscribe to newsletter
  • © Visit Åland +358-18-24000, [email protected]
  • Back to top