Is opinn-skjold.de legit or a scam?
Official website of Opinn Skjold e.V., a 46-year-old German Viking living-history group with verified business registration and positive independent references.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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MT Intelligence
Opinn Skjold e.V. is a registered association (eingetragener Verein) in Schleswig, Germany, active since 1978 as a Viking re-enactment and living-history club. Our antivirus network flagged no malicious content, the SSL certificate is valid, and the hosting IP has zero abuse reports. The evidence package confirms the group's legitimacy through multiple independent sources: Deutschlandfunk radio documented them as established experts in their field, photography and museum sites reference their authentic Norse demonstrations, and the Haithabu Viking Museum associates them with educational events. The website's Impressum lists a full legal address, chairman name, phone, and email — all consistent with a genuine German non-profit. No scam reports, complaints, or fraudulent activity appear in any search results.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for opinn-skjold.de, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain hosts official website of Opinn Skjold e.V., a Viking re-enactment and living-history group based in Schleswig, Germany, active since 1978.
- Impressum lists legal entity Opinn Skjold e.V., full address Altfeld 23, 24837 Schleswig, chairman Harm Paulsen, phone +49 4621 421523, email info@opinn-skjold.de.
- Group known for authentic depictions of Norse life, building a Viking trading ship, demonstrations at Haithabu Viking Museum, and events at open-air museums.
- Website content emphasizes outdoor activities: "wir sind ein lebendiger Haufen und gern draußen" and "ab zu uns an die frische Luft!" (we are a lively bunch and like to be outdoors).
- Multiple independent sources (photography sites, radio, local news, museum pages) reference the group positively with no scam or fraud mentions.
- No reviews, complaints, or scam reports found on Trustpilot, Reddit, ScamAdviser, or in targeted searches for "scam", "betrug", or complaints.
- No connection to any known scam families, phishing, or brand impersonation.
- Holger Rüdel Photographyopen
"Die Wikingergruppe "Opinn Skjold" verfolgt das Ziel, das Leben der Nordmänner und Nordfrauen möglichst authentisch nachzugestalten."
- Deutschlandfunkopen
"Opinn Skjold-Gruppe gegründet vor fast 35 Jahren und die sind inzwischen schon gefragte Experten in ihrem Bereich"
- haithabu-tagebuch.deopen
"Wikingerverein seit 1978 - Opinn Skjold e.V."
Opinn Skjold e.V. registered association (eingetragener Verein), address Altfeld 23, 24837 Schleswig, represented by Harm Paulsen. Active since at least 1978 as Viking reenactment group associated with Haithabu museum events.
Our research confirmed Opinn Skjold e.V. as a legitimate, long-established German non-profit. Deutschlandfunk radio described them as 'founded almost 35 years ago and now sought-after experts in their field.' The group is documented on museum sites and photography archives as active in authentic Viking re-enactment and living-history demonstrations. Business registration data shows the association is active and properly registered in Schleswig with full legal details. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions appear in any consumer-review sites, social media, or general web searches.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://opinn-skjold.de/
- 2301https://www.opinn-skjold.de/cross-domain
- 3200https://www.opinn-skjold.de/index.php/de/cross-domain
Server Reputation
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No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on opinn-skjold.de. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- opinn-skjold.de passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 86/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. opinn-skjold.de presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 31 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 66 antivirus engines in our malware network report opinn-skjold.de as clean.
- No. opinn-skjold.de is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- opinn-skjold.de resolves to an IP operated by IONOS SE in DE (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 16, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around opinn-skjold.de have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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