The 'Norse Encampment' is the collective name given to a series of living history programs, starting in the early 1990's, which illustrate daily life in the Viking Age. Historic interpreters, employing replica objects, bring the past to life through typical activities of the Norse. These interpreters speak as voices from the past, portraying historic styled characters. Throughout the series exceptional care was taken to ensure everything involved in a presentation was reflective of current archaeological research. One cornerstone of all the presentations was reference to the Vinland voyages by the Norse, circa 1000 AD.

The collected information within the Norse Encampment documentation has been grouped into a number of topic sections (as seen to the right). Individual articles may be included in more than one section. Your location in the series is indicated by a pale blue outline for the topic section.

Visitors to this series may find some disruption to some of the content until full revisions to this series are completed!

Please use the topic sections on the left to go on to individual articles.

This section will eventually contain a description of the evolution of the Norse Encampment series of programs, starting with the presenation at the Orangeville Medieval Festival in 1993 & 94.

More content under preparation!

Readers are also referred to: Hammered Out Bits This ongoing blog collection contains many shorter 'articles in progress' discussing aspects of both iron smelting and metalworking from the Viking Age, as well as topics of interest to historic re-enactors in general. A separate index is also available (updated quarterly).