2014 WinterNights Festival Activities*
Games / Fun Activities:
- – Kubb / Viking Lawn Chess (tournament if warranted) / all day
- – Hnefatafl / Viking Table Chess (board game) / all day
- – Build a Viking Longboat / build your own longboat and decorate it / all day
- – Build a Viking Shield / build your own shield and decorate it / all day
Musical Performances:
- – Norsewind / Old Norse & Celtic genre of music / 12:30 to 1:45-ish
- – Kellianna / singing songs of myth & magic / 2:00 to 3:15-ish
Ceremonies:
- – Troll Bridge / pay our trolls – be given your Viking name & cross their bridge / all day
- – Welcome / Opening Announcement / 11:15 AM
- – Dedication / Unveiling and Dedication 3rd stone / 12:00 “Tyr’s Aett”
- – Skogar Þrostur / Hoisting/Lowering of her sail / 11:30 AM / 3:30 PM
Runes 101
- – Rune Wall / wall showing all the Elder Futhark / all day
- – Runestone Trilogy / 3 runestones each contains an Aett of Runes / all day & in souvenir festival brochure
- – Explaination of / pronouncing, meaning, types, reading / & in souvenir brochure
- – Old Norse Prose / describing Odins quest for knowledge / done as part of ‘Explaination of’
- – The Oracle’s Enclave / go inside for your rune reading / all day
Younger Edda
- – Creation / of Universe, World, Day, Night, Sun, Moon
- – Golden Age / of Asgard and the Gods of Asgard
- – Yggdrasil & the Norns / great tree and weavers of fate
- – Binding of Fennir / Tyr & great evil wolf / told during dedication ceremony at noon
Enlightenment Talks
- – Maxims for All / Viking Values to live by
- – Viking Artifacts / view, learn, and discuss how they lived / all day at Skogar Þrostur
- – Viking Women / shield maidens & equals
- – Sorry no Satan / in Pagan/Heathen/Wiccan
- – Odds & Ends / Q & A / all day
Great Nordic FairyTales
- – The Boy who was never afraid
- – Linda-Gold and the Old King
- – The Flower of Happiness on Sunnymount Crest
- – The Trolls and the Youngest Tomte
- – The Magician’s Cape
*This is a partial list which we are updating as plans are still fluid and we hear from other participants/vendors/etc. Actual time schedule will be added later as well.