2015 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 / 11:30 to 1:30-ish
- – Danjul / share & explain an appropriate Norse celebration cermony / midway of set
- – Kellianna / singing songs of myth & magic – sacred places and ancient times / 2:00 to 3:15-ish
Ceremonies:
- – Welcome / Opening Announcement / 11:30 AM
Enlightenment Talks
- – Norns / who-what-how it affected Vikings
- – Incorrect Myths / learning more about how and why of their lives
- – Viking Women / shield maidens & equals
- – Sorry no Satan / in Pagan/Heathen/Wiccan
- – Odds & Ends / Q & A / all day
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’
*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.