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.