Viking Festival, Flag Fen Archaeology Park, Peterborough. 

 

The excellent Flag Fen Archaeology Park hosts a Viking Festival with an authentic Viking encampment. 

 

Activities and displays include demonstrations of Viking weapons and military skills, a skirmish, traditional Viking woodworking and metalworking, food and cooking, a Viking burial, and weaving, all culminating in an exciting re-enactment of the Battle of the Holme (AD 902).

Images from the Viking Festival.

 

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Images show:

  1. Elements of the Viking encampment way of life. 
  2. Assembling for the weapons and skirmish demonstrations.
  3. Weapons demonstrations; daggers (like the seax), spears, battleaxes (eg the skeggøx or bearded axe), bows and arrows, and the most prized weapons, swords, usually carried by richer, elite warriors and earls (jarls). 
  4. Individual combat including re-enactments of dispatching wounded warriors.
  5. Skirmishes Vikings against Anglo-Saxons.