Yarema Bükholz

One of our Icelandic sheep Oona enjoying a quiet evening in a very green paddock on The Viking Farm. Archaeology gives us a remarkably detailed picture of how Norse people used sheep. If you were building a farm in the Viking Age, sheep would have been one of the most useful animals you could keep. A sheep could turn grass and other forage that people couldn't eat into meat, milk, wool, hides, and even bone and horn that could be put to use. Sheep were relatively small, hardy animals, well...

One of my round Viking inspired shields featuring our own Clan Rúnda logo. There are few objects more immediately recognizable as Viking than the round shield. Simple in shape, relatively light, and highly functional, the round shield was an important part of Viking Age warfare. Archaeological finds give us a surprisingly good idea of how many of these shields were constructed, while artwork from the period gives us glimpses of how they may have looked. I have spent a lot of time studying...

A wood bow loom made by Yarema shown with bone cards being used for tablet weaving. Long before looms became large pieces of furniture and weaving became something most people associated with mills and factories, a remarkably simple tool was being used to create some of the most intricate textiles of the Viking Age. That tool was the weaving tablet. Tablet weaving—sometimes called card weaving or bone weaving—is created using a series of small, usually square tablets with holes near their...