Where was Vikings Valhalla filmed? Kattegat, Uppsala, & ALL the Locations

In the first episode, the Greenlanders Leif Erikson (played by Sam Corlett) and Freydís Eiríksdóttir (Frida Gustavsson), travel to Kattegat.

In the series, the legendary Viking settlement is located somewhere in the sound of a fjord in Scandinavia.

The real Kattegat is a large sea area between Denmark and southern Norway and Sweden, linking the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.

The establishing shots of Kattegat were filmed at Lough Tay, a small lake located in the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland.

In the first seasons of Vikings, the town was partially built on the beach at the left of the picture below, near the shore, before being dismantled and moved to Ashford Studios.

Most of the landscapes featured in Vikings Valhalla are found in Wicklow County, situated about 30 miles south of Dublin.

The forests in Wicklow and the Valley of Glendalough have almost untouched areas and ancient trees that create a convincing sense of wilderness.

It looks like the scene in the first episode when Leif and his friends follow Olaf Haraldsson into a large settlement was filmed in a valley situated between the lakes Lough Tay and Lough Dan, near the original Kattegat set.

However, most of the series was filmed at Ashford Studios.

In Google's satellite image, we can see the Kattegat set with the gates to the city and a small artificial lake that serves as the shore of the settlement.

Also, we can appreciate the set of the Roman fortifications of London and a section of the bridge below, on the left.

In the second episode, there is an establishing shot of Tamworth Castle, an 11th-century Norman fortress in Staffordshire, England.

However, the castle was CGI'd into the scene using digital effects. Much outdoor footage was digitally edited to add snowy mountains or green pastures, depending on the context.

The shrine in Uppsala, the most sacred site in the Viking world, is inspired by the traditional architecture of the Stave Churches.

The set was built in a small forest between Lough Tay and Lough Dan in County Wicklow.

Today, most of these surviving medieval wooden temples, like the 12th-century Hopperstad Stave Church on the right, are located in Norway.

The historical old temple in Gamla Uppsala, an important center of worship in Sweden, was destroyed in the late 11th century.

The beach in the first episode of season two, "The Web of Fate" is the beautiful Magheramore Beach on Ireland's east coast.

Beloved by surfers, this secluded cove was also the setting for several productions, including Camelot and East Enders spin-off Redwater.

The entrance to the Jomsborg Viking stronghold in Pomerania (today in Poland), looks like the dramatic cliffs in Mizen Head, the most southerly point of mainland Ireland.

However, there are many more similar cliffs with caves and stone bridges along the Irish coast.

The Jomsborg village set was probably filmed in a disused quarry like the one at Kilmacurragh Gardens near Wicklow town, also used in the Vikings series, but we couldn't confirm this.