Njörðr's Wanderers
USA
Member Since: 2025
Focus areas: Viking Age, Early Medieval
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We are a volunteer organization centered on reconstructive archaeology, teaching to the public the daily life of a maritime trade settlement in the North Sea and North Atlantic during the early Middle Ages in an immersive, hands-on, open-air museum format. Many of Njörðr's members are educators, researchers, engineers, and craftspeople with backgrounds in primary, secondary, and university-level education, applied history, and experimental and reconstructive archaeology.
We portray the people, their cultures, and activities that one would encounter whilst walking through a typical trade camp, presenting these activities through living history. The peoples one would encounter include Norse and Dane, Frank and Frisian, Irish, English, and Welsh, the last of the Picts, and far-traveling merchants and delegates from Iberia and Byzantium.
Njörðr's members recreate these daily activities and materials by presenting the results of our reconstructive archaeology efforts in the context of an early Medieval maritime trade camp: merchants and traders coming by land and sea, artisans crafting goods for sale or repairing ships’ fittings, farmers with livestock and staples, envoys in transit, pilgrims and priests, adventurers resting or preparing, the town watch encountering the occasional ne’er-do-well, and the laborers building wattle fencing and plank roads, as the community transitions from a temporary camp to a permanent town.
Looking for practitioners and living history demonstrators with skills in the following
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Happy to collaborate with Museums and Institutions in the following
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Representatives
Krag Buck
President
Krag is the founder and president of Njörðr's Wanderers. He has been active in living history, reconstructive archaeology, and historical program development for over 40 years. Previous research, reconstructive, and interpretive interests have included the early developments in the founding of the Royal American Regiment in the Seven Years War in North America; material culture and program development for the National Park Service, to include the utilitarian use of military music and the role of naval infantry in the War of 1812; and the presentation of Irish military history in small scale interpretive vignettes, from the Iron Age to the UN presence in the Congo. His current research focus is on the material and cultural reconstruction of early Medieval Europe in the context of maritime-based trade and industry.
Diana Buck
Vice-president
Diana is the founder and vice president of Njörðr's Wanderers. She has been active in living history, reconstructive archaeology, and historical program development for over 30 years. Previous research, reconstructive, and interpretive interests have included the role of women along the shifting frontier in late-colonial North America; material culture and program development for the National Park Service, focusing on the commercial opportunism and industry of women at Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. Her current research focus is on the material and cultural reconstruction of early Medieval Europe, with an essential focus on the agency and power of women in pre-conversion Scandinavia.