Exhibition at RMO in Leiden

The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) hosts an exhibition on Dorestad this year. We were invited to spice up the opening event.

Here's the link to the museum: http://www.rmo.nl/. Click on the top left corner to go to the English pages.


It was quite funny to be posing in front of an Egyptian sarcophagus.... but hey, Vikings travelled everywhere... ;)


Thanks to Pepijn Dousi for these fabulous photos!

Easter at Archeon

This year's Easter event was held at Archeon again and since the weather was so great, we decided to bring Rúna along as well. The audience in the museum loved her!

Here, big "brother" Lars holds her while she sleeps... aren't they cute?
On Saturday it was a bit too hot actually so the boys are playing Tafl behind the house in the shade. On Sunday it was a bit colder and better for us, really, we did a lot of crafts: leatherwork, cooking, archery, naalbinding and so on.

29th March, Rúna's first event

Hello friends,

This past Sunday the village of Leiderdorp celebrated their origins from the Roman era through the Dark Ages to the present day.
Tjursläkter was invited to spice up the Dark Age-bit, as you can imagine.


It was Rúna's first public appearance and she behaved like a princess! Enjoy the photos!

More mini socks

At the last Archeon Summer market I bought some fabulous wool, dyed with madder and indigo. Of course I couldn't resist making more socks for Rúna :)
This is the smallest sock in Larry Schmitt's book "Lots of Socks" and I don't think she will wear them for a long time, but who cares?

Naalbind thingies!

Dear all,

Our friend Geeske made some FABULOUS socks for Rune to celebrate her coming into this world, aren't they perfect?


We will be able to use the socks soon as our little viking lady will have her first public appearance on the 29th of March.

For this same event I made a naalbound hat for her over the weekend.

Enjoy the photos!

First Viking photo

Well, folks, here's the first Viking photo of our little miss sunshine. It took us about 5 minutes to place her on sheepskin and underneath an embroidered cloak. Life of even the smallest Vikings is bliss... ;)

A new Viking!

Dear Folks,
Our daughter Rune Gjilke was born on January 29th! We are very happy :)
But, I guess, posting on this blog will be a bit difficult within the next few weeks/months so please be patient. There will most definitely be new projects and such in the future!!

Within our Viking-group Tjursläkter Rune will be called Rúna Einarsdottir.