Trelleborg

On a very hot and sunny Saturday, we headed out to Slagelse to visit Trelleborg.  Trelleborg is one of the few remaining Viking Ring Castles found in Denmark.  There is a museum there, several replica buildings and on this particular weekend, they were having a Viking Market and Melee.  You can read more about Trelleborg here.  The castle ruins are very old, dating back around 981ad.  The ruins include the viking ring castle, which was basically a rampart built in a circle.  They would then build their long houses inside of the ramparts and would then be protected by any outsiders.  It was pretty neat.  The market was fun to walk around, seeing the handcrafted items that might have been found in a real viking market.  Denmark is very big into roll playing, they often have roll playing events as children and it seems as adults, many are really into it as well. Some of the market set ups were pretty elaborate.  We ate some yummy chicken in pita bread and really enjoyed some modern day ice cream.  Walking around the ring castle was pretty neat.  There were several horses grazing in there and when Myra went up to pet one, it bit her!  She was ok, just a little shaken.  Not too long after, we had to head out of the ring castle to watch the Viking Battle re-enactment.  Noah LOVED this part and was so sad to leave.  He keeps talking about wanting to go and see it again. 
It was a fun outing and neat to see another part of Denmark.

 We watched this bird show, which was in Danish, so we didn't understand most of it.  But, it was a little shocking when he pulled out a whole baby chick and fed it to the hawk.  And then he pulled out a little girl from the audience and handed her a dead mouse to feed the owl.  Kind of crazy!

 After the horse bit Myra, Chad decided he was going to try to ride this one.  It responded with trying to bite him.  haha!

 The Battle of Trelleborg