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.