Viking Invaders

Viking Expansion and Lifestyles

Cooking – ¼ day

Prepare and cook a simple meal including grinding cereals to make flour and bread with oats and cinnamon. Make butter and a simple vegetable stew with fish. For dessert prepare and cook oat cakes flavoured with honey.

Weaving and Jewellery Making – ¼ day

Learn about the process of preparing, dying and spinning wool to weave a piece of fabric. Make your own Viking Troll Cross (Trollsker) to wear around your neck and keep the trolls away!

Viking Runes & Wattle and Daub – ¼ day

Look at the Viking Runic form of writing and create your own Runic spell in clay. Construct your own Wattle fence enclosure. 'Daub' a wattle hurdle to weatherproof an early Viking hut.

Viking Society & Battle – ¼ day

Learn how Viking society was structured and choose a King, a Jarl, a Karl and a Thrall to dress in Viking clothes. Finish the day as a Viking warrior and join a classic battle formation as you prepare to fight with the help of the Gods. 

Viking Long Ship – ½ day

Build your own Viking long ship and sail it on the moat and then watch as the chief is sent on his way to Valhalla in his own burning long ship.

Illuminated Writing – evening

Design and illuminate a piece of writing.

Viking Saga and Wedding – evening

Watch as two families are joined together in an authentic wedding ceremony then sit around the open fire and enjoy listening to a story told in the style of a Viking Saga - be ready for the blood, guts and gore!

Viking Feast and Saga evening

Feast as a Viking warrior, sing drinking songs and then listen to a Viking Saga around the campfire.