Signature · No. II

The Last Vikings

Row a longship, throw an axe and leave with a Viking diploma — about 450 metres from the ship.

Ken Stornes & crew · 2 hours

Duration: 2 hours
Guests: 10–24 a wave
Level: Low
Season: May–October
Tour code: SKJ-VIK

A horn sounds as you come off the gangway, and about 450 metres later you are standing in the camp. Ken Stornes and his crew put an oar in your hands and take the longship out onto the fjord. Then the axes, in fenced lanes, and the bows, with the crew beside you.

The last half hour is Ken's: stories of death diving — dødsing, the Norwegian high dive — of winters on the fjord, and of what it takes to live this way. Every guest leaves with a diploma signed by Ken — and time for the photograph everyone wants.

Rowing a Viking ship on the Lustrafjord
Axe-throwing and archery, supervised lane by lane
Saga stories from Ken Stornes himself
A Viking diploma, signed at the camp

The day, hour by hour

Two hours, gangway to gangway

00:00 – 00:10 Meet on the pier to a horn blast, and walk about 450 metres to the Viking camp
00:10 – 00:30 Viking ship rowing — a demonstration, then everyone takes an oar
00:30 – 01:00 Axe-throwing in fenced, supervised lanes
01:00 – 01:30 Archery under the crew's instruction
01:30 – 01:50 Saga stories with Ken: death diving, the Norwegian winter and the Viking mind
01:50 – 02:00 Viking certification — a diploma from Ken for every participant — then photographs and the short walk back to the ship

00:00 is the moment the group leaves the pier — not a clock time.

A replica Viking longship with its mast raised, moored against the stone breakwater in green fjord water, with the camp laid out on the grass behind it — a round painted shield mounted on a timber backdrop, a palisade of pointed stakes and an open shelter — and white houses on the wooded slope above