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Viking Fire Making Kit with fire steel, tinder and flint.

Here you can buy a complete kit for making fire like in the Viking Age, including hand forged fire steel, flint stone and tinder.

The boat-shaped fire steel is very characteristic of the Viking era. However, they were also used in this way by Germanic tribes, Slavs and even in the later Middle Ages. The fire steel is forged from carbon steel and produces sparks easily.

The Viking "fire making" kit comes with nitrated cattail tinder (bulrush / typha)  in a waterproof plastic bag, which is very easy to get to glow, and a  flint, the sharp edge of which is good for producing sparks.

The Viking fire-making kit includes:
Viking fire steel 8 x 2.5 cm.
2,5 grams of nitrated cattail tinder
 flint stone
Instructions for use in German and English.

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Fire making like in the Viking Age: With fire steel, flint and dry tinder you can easily start a fire with a little practice.

If you strike a flint with a fire steel against a relatively sharp edge of a flint, sparks are easily created which can jump over to a suitable tinder. To do this, hold the supplied bulrush tinder as close as possible to the edge of the flint.

As soon as a spark has caused the tinder to glow, you get a delicate flame by blowing evenly and carefully, which you must "feed" as quickly as possible with more tinder, such as birch paper, rotten wood fibres or thin pine shavings.