Calling all Vancouver Vikings

Tyra

Tyra

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Happy Midsummer y'all. Frey's blessings be upon you and all that good stuff.

After successfully having raided IKEA in Richmond and Coquitlam, the Vikings and I will be invading the Scandinavian Cultural Centre in Burnaby (6540 Thomas Street, first driveway after you exit the freeway at Kensington) this weekend. Please come and see us there! There will be a beer garden, food vendors, the Viking ship and all sorts of Scandihoovian stuff, but mainly Vikings. It'd be great to meet som of y'all, so if you come, make sure to ask for me in the Viking village.

http://www.canada.com/burnabynow/news/story.html?id=5c8441c8-4376-43a5-aa7e-adfd0c889e89
 
Sweet. Do you guys put on anything like this in or around Maryland? I mean other than the Ren Fest. Thats just become a place to get dressed up and wasted. There is very little history in it anymore.
 
HaloSlayer said:
Sweet. Do you guys put on anything like this in or around Maryland? I mean other than the Ren Fest. Thats just become a place to get dressed up and wasted. There is very little history in it anymore.
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Well, my particular group, the Reik Felag, stays local. We are not part of the SCA (although some of our members are) but there are tons of SCA groups that put on events. I'd check with them for a local war down where you are. The tourneys are OK, too, but you'd probably like a war better... Bates, what's the addy again? www.sca.org, I think. You can check for upcoming events there, or google your home town + SCA and see what pops up. Some of the SCA events are kind of like RenFaire, though, in regards to the drinking and all, it depends on the organizing shire. None the less, it is a good place to find out about other groups. Parma is another good place to start. There's not as much drinking etc with them, as they are more serious (in th SCA, the emphasis is more on fun).
We are in the process of creating a new, upgraded website for the Felag. it's kind of empty atm, but we'll be filling it up in the next few weeks. Check in every so often if you like: www.reikfelag.org
 
:worship: Lucky you Canadian Vikings!!! It would be really great to be there..... Pitty that I live in the other part of the world.....:(

It would be awesome if you share here some pics.... just to console the ones who can't be there....:(:(:(:cry:

...and please, have a lot of fun! :D
 
Thanks a lot! Nice pictures! It seems that everything went perfectly well and that it was really funny! ....it would have been really good to be there...
Hugs!:D


Tyra said:
Some pictures for y'all, so you can see what we do:
http://www.getdropbox.com/gallery/35036/2/Midsummer/Midsummer dropbox?h=a394b8&p=6
I'm in the tent with my oldest daughter, friend and sister-in-law in front of it in 0020, and working on my sewing in 57 and 58. My hubby is in 59 and 60, and that's my lilltle one weaving in 136. Not bad for any age, but especially for 9 years old!
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Ok, I have to ask. Did you guys actually kill the animals to get the fur skins? I would not condemn you if you did. In fact I would commend you for using all of the animal assuming you of course ate them as well. Also they are very nice pictures.
 
Joe and British Viking: OK, but you have our brothers over there: http://www.vikingsonline.org.uk/ Some of our members are affiliated with them and Vikings! Canada.

HaloSlayer: I cannot speak for the rest of the group, but as for my tent: some of those animals were ones that we ate for dinner. Some of them were purchased second hand. The only ones I bought new, just for the pelt alone, were two of the rabbits, and then it was only because I needed the rabbit skin and it could not be replaced with a used or artificial one. Other than that, they are either dead because we ate them or because they were sick or injured and would have required mercy killings, or were already dead and at Value Village when I found them. I have no problem with road kill, as long as it is period for the Viking Age, but I don't think we need to kill animals for their pelts for the purpose of playing Vikings, and I don't like the idea of raising animals in cages just so some of us can have their teeny little furs to show off on a two-day demo. I would also rather not use something for a demo if it is not the real thing, but, say, a fake fur. That's the difference between living history and the SCA, becasue in the SCA, I'd happily use a fake fur rug or whatever. We have a 5 foot rule, i.e. it has to look authentic from 5 feet away. It's really difficult to fake most stuff, som most of it is authentic or we don't use it at all.
 
British Viking said:
Why does Oden hate me? :erk:

I live in England.
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Darling, he doesn't hate you - he loves you! See:
(Tune: "Jesus Loves the Little Children")

Odin loves the little Vikings
All the Vikings of the world
Whether drunk on ale or mead
In a boat or on a steed
Odin loves the little Vikings of the world.

Odin loves the little Vikings
All the Vikings of the world
If you're drunk and thrown in jail
Odin - and your axe! - are bail
Odin loves the little Vikings of the world.

Odin loves the little Vikings
All the Vikings of the world
Offer up an ox or two
And he'll be in debt to you.
Odin loves the little Vikings of the world.


Did I tell you we have a lot of fun?
 
I know the feeling. Lars will be 12 in a couple of weeks, and the other 2 aren't far behind. Duncan likes your little one's bunny tho, you shoulda heard him when I was looking at the pictures, hehe.
 
The bunny was purchchased on Gotland. I came back with two stuffies, that bunny for Leia and a stuffed bat for Lina. That's my kids in a nut shell. One is frilly and pink and the other one is plain and aaaaall black. These days, Leia's fave band is Dragon Force and "Uncle Johan" ("because it's faaast!!), while Lina likes anything that her parents don't like ('cept for country, which we all don't like). She has just discoverd curlers and I other teenage girl things, and I am slowly but surely loosing control over my own house hold. Help.
 
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