Smedetræf - Ribe VikingeCenter

August 16-17, 2025

The blacksmiths are sweating in their workshops giving the red-hot iron one heavy blow after the other. To the best of their ability and without modern equipment they try hard to carry on the tradition of the old Danes. Find out how their work is progressing. And bring all your questions along; the blacksmiths are more than happy to show and explain their craft.

The blacksmith was one of the most important craftsmen in the Viking Age society. The job was hot, dirty and hard with an endless order for knives, axes, scissors, rivets, nails, fittings, locks, fire steels, cauldrons and many other indispensable things for the home, farming, boat building and the battlefield.

August 16-17, 2025

10:00-16:00

Visit the blacksmith workshops in the marketplace

10:00-16:15

Hands-on: coin making, whittling and archery (DKK 30 each or buy the activity card DKK 60)

10:00-16:30

Hands-on: make wooden nails, challenge each other to a Viking game, try out the warrior exercises, visit the Viking playground