Program for Lofotr Vikingfestival 2022

The festival's theme is in 2022 trade and cultural exchange. The theme has been chosen on the basis that the Vikings had contacts across cultures and several of our objects in the exhibition refer precisely to this.

We want to highlight trade and cultural exchange during the festival. Do you have a stand, activity, a lecture, or another program that can fit our Viking Festival - please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

You can buy your ticket here.

Here are the program for the festival: 

10:00 The museum opens

11:00 The festival opens

11:00 Courses/workshops/demonstrations starts

11:00 Today´s food demonstration starts - every day except Sunday!

Wednesday: Leg of lamb in a cooking pit

Thursday: Beer brewing

Friday: Roast lamb

Saturday: The Vikings' cooking competition

12:00 Opening of festival with ceremony for guests and participants - WEDNESDAY ONLY

12:00 Concert with Gjaldulei
(Gjaldulei will present their lyrical music in the boathouse)

12:30 Viking fashion show - only Saturday

12:30-14:30 Smithing for children
(We will make sword pendants from nails beside the smithy)

12:30-14:30 Braiding workshop with Skjoldehamn braids

13:00 Fight show – Vedhrar
(Vedhrar will show off their fighting skills in the fight arena)

13:30 Teater Basun
(Teater Basun will tell interactive stories [NO])

14:00 Fight school for children in the fighting arena (limited number of places)
(OBS: limited number of participants)

14:00-16:00 Daily demonstration: flatbread baking outside the smithy
(spinning, runes writing, flatbread baking, grid weaving, archaeological box Saturday.)

14:30 Concert with Gjaldulei
(Gjaldulei will present their lyrical music in the boathouse)

15:00 The Chieftain Returns on the ship

15:00 Lecture – the use of the Lyre in Iron age and saga (in the boathouse)

15:00 The Chief's Homecoming - SUNDAY ONLY

15:30 Teater Basun
(Teater Basun will tell interactive stories [NO])

16:00 Concert with Gjaldulei
(Gjaldulei will present their lyrical music in the boathouse)

16:30 Fight show – Vedhrar (limited number of places)
(Vedhrar will show off their fighting skills in the fight arena)

17:00 Fight school for children in the fighting arena
(OBS: limited number of participants)

18:00 Lecture on the Skjoldeham costume in the cinema hall of the Lofotr Viking Museum, v. Åsa Elstad – Friday, Saturday, Sunday....

Museum opening hours:                                      10:00-19:00
Sales booths and food sale at the festival:        11:00-18:00
The viking ship sails/rows every 30 minutes:    12:00-18:00
Activities and viking games for everyone:          11:00-18:00