2013 WinterNights Festival Activities*

Games / Fun Activities:

– Longboats 101 – kids (family) – learn about, build, and race your own longboat.
– Get your Nordic Name / learn what your Viking name would have been
– Your Runes Cast / ‘yur runes cast’ by ‘yur touch’ magic & science as one
– Kubb / Viking Lawn Chess (tournament if warranted)
– Hnefatafl / Viking Table Chess (board game)
– Learn Norwegian / Simon Says, Colors, & Heads, shoulders, knees, toes (led by Michelle Land)

Music / Dancing:

– 11:30 to 12:30 –Norsewind / Old Norse & Celtic genre of music

– 2:00 – Childrens Club Skansen #147 – folk dancers

Great Nordic Food:

Swedish Meatballs / Swedish Pancakes (Crepes)
Cucumber Salad / Sliced Nordic Cheese on Limpa Bread
Fattigman / Almond Bars(gluten free) / Pepparkar (ginger snaps)
Almond Kringle Cake / Pulla Cardamom Braid / Dragon Punch

Schedule:

11:00 – Festival Starts – get your old norse name/vendors/games/etc
11:00 to 5:30 – Seer Oracle – cast your individual runes
11:30 to 12:30 –Norsewind / Old Norse & Celtic genre of music
12:30 – Unveiling and Dedication 2nd stone “Heimdall’s Aett”
2:00 to 2:20 – Childrens Club Skansen #147 – folk dancers
2:30 to ? – Learn Norwegian – Head, shoulders, knees, toes as well as Simon Says and Colors (kind of like Red Rover come over using colors) great fun for kids, families, and pick up some Norwegian too!
Games & Activities – all day

Ceremonies:

– 12:30 – Unveiling and Dedication 2nd stone “Heimdall’s Aett”
– ? – Winternights Festival Galdr ritual (Danjul/Norsewind)

Readings/Videoettes Runes:

– Explaination of /pronouncing, meaning, types, reading
– Old Norse Prose describing Odins quest for knowledge

Readings/Videoettes Younger Edda:

– Creation of Universe, World, Day, Night, Sun, Moon
– Golden Age of Asgard and the Gods of Asgard
– Yggdrasil & the Norns
– Binding of Fennir (great evil wolf)
– Thors Hammer and its creation/power

Readings/Videoettes Poetic Edda:

– Wisdom for Wanderers and Counsel to Guests
– Maxims to Men (Values to live by)
– Lessons for Lovers
– Odin’s Love Quests
– Odin’s Quest after the Runes

Readings/Videoettes 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.