[WurmWald] Fwd: Living History Event--A Viking Celebration of Spring

[Jenn/Yana]

--- Folo Watkins <folo at advancenet.net> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:35:31 -0600
> To: jmowens1 at uiuc.edu, seneschal at wurmwald.org
> From: Folo Watkins <folo at advancenet.net>
> Subject: Living History Event--A Viking Celebration
> of Spring
> 
> Please let members of your group know of this event.
> 
> Micel Folcland, the local branch of Regia Anglorum,
> will be holding 
> a  Viking Reenactment on 22 and 23 April at Forest
> Glen Preserve, 20301 E 
> 900 North Rd, Westville, IL (15 miles outside of
> Danville, IL). "Folcland 
> Fest--A Viking Celebration of Spring" will feature
> reenactors in costume, 
> games, crafts, archery and a Viking ball-game,
> knattleikr.  Activities will 
> be held from 10 am until 5 pm on Saturday and from
> 10 am to 5 pm on 
> Sunday.  Admission is free, and non-costumed guests
> are welcome.
> 
> Regia Anglorum was founded in Britain in 1986 and is
> currently expanding 
> into the United States. It attempts to recreate the
> everyday life of the 
> Norse, the Anglo-Saxons, the Normans and others who
> lived on the isle 
> between 950 and 1066 ce. The costume, crafts, arts
> and other aspects of the 
> culture(s) are recreated. Reenactments for the
> public, along the line 
> of  American Civil War and American War of
> Independence reenactors, are 
> staged. Regia Anglorum has helped various
> documentary producers and works 
> closely with English Heritage, the York
> Archaeological Trust and others. 
> For further information, you can see www.regia.org,
> www.ranamember.org and 
> www.micelfolcland.org. Information on the event
> itself my be found at 
> http://www.geocities.com/babs3002/.
> 
> Thanks very much for your trouble. I hope that this
> information is of 
> interest to some members of your group.
> 
> Cheers, F. L. Watkins
> 
> 
> 


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