Det var en god weekend!
Jeg var på Ribe vikingemarked. Jeg skulle egentlig bare have købt et par ting jeg manglede til sommeren, men som det jo sker, bliver man hængende, og det var SÅ hyggeligt. Hang ud sammen med Fjordboerne (hvor nogen har en 2. identitet som Odd’ere). Jeg fik købt et nålehus af læder, 3 glasperler og en pelshat.

(Er træerne ikke bare fantastisk flotte. Jeg elsker Danmark i maj).

Glæder mig til at se sommeraftenerne i møde Varmt klædt på. Ikke at det var nødvendigt med varmt tøj denne weekend: 20-25 grader, jeg fatter ikke at det pludselig er blevet så godt vejr. Der var meget varmt i solen og uldkjolerne røg af. At rende rundt i sin særk er vældig uautentisk, men hvad kan man ellers gøre, hvis man ikke vil have hedeslag.

Jeg havde min lillesøsters særk med, men fik ikke syet så meget på den som jeg havde regnet med. Til gengæld fik jeg smagt en masse god mjød, og noget mellemgod polsk (tysk?) mjød. Der var fest med band (folkemusik) i langhuset, men den megen varme i kombination med varmen i huset bedøvede vist folk, så festen foregik mest udenfor. Det var en god fest…
Fik lært et par nye vikinger at kende. Det er nu meget rart at kende dem man render ind i på markeder. De første to år var en uendelig strøm af nye mennesker og “hej, og hvem er så du” og jeg kan alligevel ikke huske så mange folks navne.
Næste markeder: Wunjos eget lille marked i starten af juni, og et par dage efter til Karmøy, Norge med Lokes Frimænd. Det ser jeg frem til.

In English:
That was a good weekend!

I visited Ribe Viking Market. I just ment to buy a few things for the summer (and Ribe is the place to get everything), but as it happens you hang on. It was so hyggeligt. I saw Fjordboerne (some of them has a secound identity as Odd’ere). I bought a needle case made of leather, 3 glass beads, and and a felted hat with fur trimming (picture (and isn’t the trees just beautiful. If you visit Denmark, come here in May!). I’m looking forward to meet the summer evenings warmly dressed.
Not that it was nessasary this weekend: 20-25 C (68-77 F). I can’t believe we suddenly have such warm weather. Both because its only the beginning of May and because it was so cold and snowy for such a long time, much more than usually. So I went around in my shift, so very unauthentic, but what can you do else, if you want to avoid heat stroke.

I had brought my little sisters shift, but I didn’t sewed so much on it as I thought I would. Instead I did get to taste a lot of good mead, and som sort-of-good Polish (or German? I don’t quite remember) mead. There was a party in the langhus (“longhouse”? the big hall anyway) with a folkband, but the warm weather and the heat in the langhus in combination with the music seemed to lull people into a thrance, so the party mostly took place outside. It was a great party…

Got to know a few new people. Its quite nice that now I know some of the people I meet at markets. The first two years was a neverending stream of new acquaintances, and I can’t remember so many people’s names anyway. Next markets: Wunjos little market and then to Karmoy, Norway with Lokes Frimænd. Looking forward very much to that.