Find tons of challenges and games all around the festival to give a try! Test your strength, wit, or endurance with things like lifting Thor’s hammer, tug of war, stone stacking, and much more!
Join a festival wide puzzle game where you have to find all the hidden rune signs around the festival. Use these runes to solve the puzzle and get rewarded for your wit and perception skills! Get the Rune Quest card and your reward at the children’s building, which you can find via Our Map!
A functioning Viking Village where you can truly step into the past. Walk around the village and watch people at work, satisfy your curiosity by asking questions, and learn how the Vikings really lived.
Some booths around the festival will have “Raid Me” signs! Show off your Viking side by politely asking to raid a booth with this sign, and get a free trinket for your battle bravery!
The Ultimate Viking After Party. Held after normal festival hours and ticketed separately, Ragnarök is a 21+ only celebration on festival grounds. With exclusive shows, plenty of drinking, fires, games, music, and an unforgettable atmosphere. Check out Our Ragnarök Page for more information!
Stages all around the festival will house entertainment such dangerous stunts with weapons and fire, comedy acts, magic, enthralling oral story telling, music, and more. Check out Our Schedule Page and Our Live entertainment Page to get a look at our amazing performers for 2026 and see when their shows are happening and where!
Discover and learn through demonstrations, lectures, our museum, our Living History Viking Camp, and so much more. Check out Our Experience History Page to get a more in depth look at how you can experience history at Viking Fest Minnesota.
Not only can you watch other people bash each other with shields, but you can join in on the action yourself and bash your friends and family with shields! They may be fake shields made of foam, but the fun is all too real! Not real enough for you? Not to fear, take real lessons in how Vikings fought by professionals. Check out Our Warriors and Fighting Page to see the large array of action packed things we offer for the warriors of our festival!
Everyone at Viking Fest Minnesota can BE a Viking. From festival wide puzzles, to coloring books, to getting your energy out with foam weapons, people of all ages can enjoy the festival. Check out Our Kids and Family Page to see more of whats available to the Viking youth.
Beers, wines, and mead, risqué shows, and an insane Viking after party. Enjoy the mature side of Viking Fest Minnesota. Check out Our Fun for Adults Page to see more of whats available to those old enough.
