Viking culture and metal go hand in hand at Midgardsblot

 

Midgardsblot Festival

Borre, Norway, August 18-20, 2016

 

Summertime in Europe is known for the numerous well-established and popular rock and metal festivals, which regularly attract audience from Bulgaria. But there are also those festivals, known to a few. Usually the reason is either because they are too small and at remote places, or because they are practically new.

 

One such example for a new festival is Midgardsblot in Norway, whose most famous metal festival is Inferno. Midgardsblot, however, is rather different than the ordinary metal festival on a field in the countryside, because it is practically taking place in an open air viking historical museum and combines history and metal.

 

Inspired by the rising interest in viking culture in the recent years and the success of the Eidsvablot festival that marked the bicentenary of the Norwegian constitution in 2014 when Einar Selvik (Wardruna) and Ivar Bjornson (Enslaved) presented their project Skuggsja, promoter Runa Strindin decides to organise Midgardsblot. The first festival takes place last August and sees the performances of Norwegian greats like Ihsahn (Emper),ro 1349 and Einar Selvik.

 

The success is so big, that this year the festival is happening for a second year and it would most likely be sold out about a month before the start.

 

This year, like last year, Midgardsblot is taking place in the “Midgard” historical centre Midgard, in Borre (60 km south of Oslo), around the burial mounds of the Norwegian viking chieftains and an authentic replica of a viking feasting hall.

 

On the bill are, among others, Wardruna, Enslaved, Skuggsja, Skalmold, Hamferd, Melecesh, Inquisition, Tsjuder, Manegram, Kirkebrann, Blot, Leaf, Trollfest, etc.

 

 

Visitors are expected not only from Norway and the neighbouring Nordic countries, but also from Iceland, the UK, Holland, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Israel, Australia, France and Spain.

 

Besides the music program, the festival will offer seminars on concert photography, movie screenings, beer and mead festival with tastings, a culinary festival, tattoo booths, exhibitions and historical reenactments.

 

The sleeping options are relatively limited: a festival camping (for a fee for a tent + per person), several hotels in the nearby town and a camping with cabins and campers, also near the festival area.

 

 

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Web: http://www.midgardsblot.no/en

Tickets: http://pub.ticketmobile.no/Events/46871/11132