HISTORICAL EXPERIENCES | Yikes! Watch Out for the Vikes!
The splashing of oars against the waves. The clash of swords, battleaxes & spears. The battle cries of the fiercest warriors the world has ever known. But there is another side to this story. Learn all about these amazing Scandinavians from a teacher/reenactor dressed in Viking regalia.
The Vikings have a reputation for being brutal and merciless warriors who carried out raids all over Europe and parts of Asia. But there is so much more to their story. Historical Experiences’s presentation, THE VIKING AGE, will cast you back in time to the mysterious age of Runes, Raids and Sagas where you will learn that there was much to admire in these Scandinavians. Putting their violent raiding aside you will learn that they were excellent traders, craftsmen, skilled ship-builders, and phenomenal navigators. They invented the ski, the comb, the first practical magnetic compass among other things. Their raids disrupted the power structure of medieval kingdoms which would ultimately result in the formation of the European nations that exist today. We are the “history field trip” that comes to you. If you want your charges to get excited about history, call us today at 507-381-0898 or go to our website to schedule a time for you date with THE VIKING AGE.
Can you hear the splashing of oars against the waves, the clashing of swords, battleaxes and spears, the warlike cries of the fiercest warriors that world has ever known? If you lived during THE VIKING AGE you lived in terror of these sounds, because it meant that the Norsemen have come back to raid, slaughtering any who resisted. They suddenly appeared, stealing everything of value and disappeared as suddenly they had come, stealing away in their swift longships before any army could come to your rescue.
This is the reputation and the image that the Vikings leave us today. But there is so much more to their story. Historical Experiences’s presentation, THE VIKING AGE, will cast you back in time to the mysterious age of Runes, Raids and Sagas where you will learn that there was much to admire in these Scandinavians. Putting their violent raiding aside you will learn that they were excellent traders, craftsmen, skilled ship-builders, and phenomenal navigators. They invented the ski, the comb, the first practical magnetic compass among other things. Their raids disrupted the power structure of medieval kingdoms which would ultimately result in the formation of the European nations that exist today.
This presentation will dispel many fallacies and myths surrounding the Vikings. For example, there is no archaeological evidence that Viking warriors ever wore helmets with horns on them. Were the Vikings in Minnesota? Is the Kensington Runestone evidence of this?
Arrange for your enlightening and entertaining presentation today.
