A PRETTY UK city has two rather unusual claims to fame – with the home of chocolate and a massive Viking event. Hundreds of ...

The JORVIK Viking Festival will return to York this February half-term. Five days of Norse fun are planned from February 17 to 23, with hands-on combat, lectures, a parade of Vikings, dramatic evening ...

Residents on a remote Scottish island have been celebrating an old Viking fire festival. More than a thousand people, dressed as Vikings, marched through the town of Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands, ...

It was an un-fire-gettable night in Lerwick this week as their world-famous fire festival filled the streets with flames and ...

This month, a well known festival, jam packed with an extensive set of features by the Arkansas Renaissance Festival.The Viking Thing is scheduled from February ...

Hundreds of people in Scotland's Shetland Islands marched with burning torches alongside a replica Viking ship on Tuesday (January 28) in a tradition dating back more than 140 years. Real Madrid first ...

First, the boat will be shown off at the Jorvik Viking Festival in York between February 17 and 22, where she will be ...

IN January 1985 Rosalind Bowden initiated and directed the first Jorvik Viking Festival and directed it until 1993. With a small team of helpers, it was devised as a means of attracting publicity ...

Up Helly Aa - the biggest fire festival in Europe - is held on the last Tuesday in January in Shetland The spectacular annual ...

Bob Marshall, chief executive of The Viking Boat Company, said the time and concentration required from veterans working on ...

Hundreds of would-be vikings will take to York's ancient streets throughout February half-term when JORVIK Viking Festival returns for another year. The festival will feature reenactments and ...