This chapter discusses Viking re-enactment within the domain of public history in present-day Europe. Defining re-enactment as an attempt to re-create some aspect of the past in a performance set in the present within a realistic-fantastic spectrum, the chapter goes on to discuss two distinct but overlapping sub-genres of Viking re-enactment: (a) the top-down re-enactments initiated by professionals at universities or institutions such as museums and (b) the bottom-up re-enactments initiated within the re-enactment scene itself. Lastly, it identifies and discusses new trends and suggested directions within the European Viking re-enactment scene in the early 21st century.