A Viking Thing 2025
Sat Nov 1, 10:00 - Sat Nov 1, 17:00
Rusty Hook
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Skal! Tyr!
Steel shall sing and mead shall flow,
Where fire and frost-bound legends grow
A Viking Thing is where to go!
Whether a Viking, a warrior, a shield-maiden or a jarl...experience battles, beards, swords, archery, meat and ale.
The village market will trade all day! Purchase wares, fill your bellies, dance and get merry on mead.
Visit Floki's boatyard, experience a Viking funeral, dress in your best Viking vestments and come raid and pillage with the Alter Egos clan!
LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE:
- Early Bird (online only) R60
- Adults Online: R80
- Kids (under 12 and over 3) online: R40
- Last Minute Week Adults Online: R90
- Last Minute Week Kids Online: R50
- Adults on the day: R100
- Kids on the day (under 12 and over 3): R60
PARKING: R30 per car
Toddlers under 3 and babies get free entry
Dogs and berserkers to be kept on leashes at all times.
MAP TO VENUE: https://goo.gl/maps/LVtWQ5pr1pxGW9Vw8
Featuring:
- Viking Games: Archery, Axe throwing, Kubb (viking chess), toga hönk (seated tug-of-war) and tug-of war (standing) and the farmer's walk!
- Eat, drink and be merry - feasting, mead and ale.
- Test your wits with the Viking Quiz!
- Create your Viking age persona's clothing and enter the Viking Vestment Contest
- Enter the Viking Quest - go a-viking and bring home the Hoard!
- One raider takes home the pillaged treasure valued at over R10 000 - get a R30 ticket at the Info Booth on the day
- ... and more!
"A thing /'' was the governing assembly of a northern Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community, presided over by lawspeakers. The word appears in Old Norse, Old English, and modern Icelandic."
~ Wikipedia