Moesgaard Viking Moot

Moesgaard Viking Moot began in 1977 as an expanded week-long version of Moesgaard Museum's Viking lectures and crafts, and has grown into the largest Viking Age reenactment gathering in Scandinavia. Held on the beaches near the museum each last weekend of July, it combines a major crafts market, working blacksmiths and open-fire kitchens with jousting tournaments, single combat and mock battles involving up to 1,000 participants and an Icelandic horse cavalry unit.

A weekend of lectures and children's crafts at Moesgaard Museum expanded into a full week-long event in 1977, and that original expansion became Moesgaard Viking Moot, now the largest Viking Age reenactment gathering in Denmark and, by some measures, in Scandinavia as a whole.