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Few periods in history stimulate the imagination as much as
the Viking era. Scandinavia, the British Isles, The Low Countries, France,
Russia, Spain, Italy, Greece, all the Mediterranean, the Black sea, Africa
and even America were normal destinations for Viking longships.
Sailors, pirates, colonizers, merchants, town and nation builders
the Vikings were all of these and more. Fröjel (Pronounced Fro-yel) is a
family based Viking Re-enactment society depicting the Vikings from Fröjel
harbor on Gotland, one of the richest Viking trading centers in the Viking
world.
The member's aims are to re-create the clothing, weapons,
tools, jewelry, games, foods and furniture of the period, to enjoy an
escape to a simpler more relaxed time while putting on displays for the
public and getting together with like minded people.
Of course battle re-enactment is a little more strenuous but
strict safety procedures are adhered to at all times by those who want to
test what they have made.
Interested? curious? come down and have a look or contact;
Sandy any afternoon on 03 59411887.
Welcome, we have put this data base together with the help of many people
in the hope that it will be of use to you by providing good quality
pictures of artifacts, accurate articles and a variety of links to other
sources and people so you will be able to get an accurate picture of the
Vikings. The purpose of this data base is to help you the student or re-enactor to do
what you do more accurately and to try to save you hours of research. It is
based specifically on the Gotland Vikings but as you will see Gotland was
the trading centre of the Viking world for hundreds of years and the
artifacts being found are from most of the known Viking world, with
artifacts which are Norwegian, Finn, Rus, Irish, Arabic and even an Indian
Budda Gotland touched many people in the so called dark ages. Many of you
will find items on these pages and refer to them as Sutten Hoo or Danish or
Irish but all were found on Gotland. For those fortunate enough to have
either Volume 1 or 2 of Lena Thunmark-Nylen's books of photographs of
Gotlandic artifact this is no surprise for they show by Parish and group
where the items were excavated on Gotland, for those who doubt this
statement I suggest that the purchase of these books is a great investment
because they have many items which probably pertain to your area and
period. The photo quality is excellent and they contain thousands of
artifacts from finds all over Gotland. The scale is nearly allways 1 to 1
so you get an accurate idea of each item. We have allready made a number of
replicas of the more commen household items. Jewellry, bowls and tools.
While some of the replica jewellery is hand made many of the items have
actually been moulded from the original artifact and as such are very
accurate copies and show what the original looked like when it was actually
made, there is no guess work just accuracy. For those of you trying to make
copies we have included side and sometimes even back views in order that
you may see the whole item.
This page will probably never be finished because we shall be adding to it
all the time and as new finds come to hand we shall be adding the picture
for you. For this reason please come back again whenever you have not
visited for a while because there will be more here to look at. For those
wishing to add links to their home page or club please feel free to email
it to me
Thank you and I hope you enjoy your visit to our humble little page.
Sandy Sempel, Fröjel Gotlandica Viking Re-enactment Society.
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