Spend The Night Like A Viking At The Nordic Inn Medieval Bed & Breakfast (PHOTOS)
If you’ve ever dreamed of living like a viking, arriving home from battle to be welcomed at a rowdy inn where the beer won’t stop flowing, silverware is unheard of, and the wenches are bountfiful, then Minnesota’s Nordic Inn Medieval B&B is for you. Well, minus that whole part about wenches, anyway.
Located in Crosby, Minnesota, the interactive, Viking-themed bed and breakfast is the closest you can get to living like a Norse warrior without a time machine. Not only does the inn look the part with its wood accents and giant stained glass windows featuring Odin, but each guest recieves an authentic period costume and an all-inclusive dinner experience that pits them against various challenges to earn their very own badass Viking name.
Once guests have settled to a proper Viking meal of Beast Gruel and Baby Dragons (soup and chicken, respectively) they “become” their Viking character and attempt to survive a night at the inn while entrenched in a mystery. Sound awesome? It is.
The insane inn is run by Richard Schmidthuber, a scientist who grew bored of his work in the biotech field and took up a new name, “Steinarr the Kraze E. Viking,” and turned an abandoned church into his own personal Valhalla.
“People when they first meet me, they think I’m nuts,” Steinarr told CBS. “But they all catch the bug.”
Stenarr stresses that his inn offers guests a unique escape from the stresses of everyday life, and unique it definitely is. After all, there’s not many places where you swap a 7AM wakeup call for a thunderous Viking battle horn.
“My place is all about creating memories,” he said.
Use the interactive map below to set sail and book your very own Viking weekend. Looking for more Asgard-inspired locations to bring out your inner warrior? Take a trip to visit North Dakota’s Gol Stave Church Museum, a full-size replica of the Gol Stave Church located in Oslo, Norway, or head to Seattle where can visit the Nordic Heritage Museumand pay your respects to one of America’s earliest explorers at the Statue of Viking Leif Erickson.
Source: https://roadtrippers.com/blogs/categories/offbeat-126
