The Viking Farm is situated a ten minutes’ walk from the Middle Age church and the Royal manor site at Avaldsnes. Take a walk through the historic saga-landscape towards the royal harbour area, cross two small bridges and you will reach a small, forested island.
Follow the path and you will find the Viking farm, just inside the rocks where King Olav Tryggvason in 998 drowned a group of wizards.
The Viking Farm will give you insight into how ordinary farmers lived their lives the Viking Age
In the farmyard you will find a longhouse, a boat house for a Viking warship, a roundhouse, pit houses and several smaller buildings. Outside the farmyard there are paths through the forest for those who will just seek some peace and tranquillity.
In the summer season the Viking Farm is open for tourists. All year in the evenings and in weekends it is possible to rent the longhouse for guided tours and banquets.
Each year in June there is a Viking Festival at the Viking Farm. Then Vikings from many countries set up their tents among the reconstructed buildings.
The Viking Farm was built as part of an experimental archaeological research programme in co-operation with the Archaeological museum in Stavanger. The aim was to gain new knowledge about pre-historic building techniques, how to use different tools, how to prepare the timber, which material our forefathers used etc.
