The center of a community is hosting a Viking festival.
The Georgian Festival in Folkingham was held earlier this year. Photo: Graydon Jones
The Threekingham Viking Festival, organized by the Aveland History Group as part of Heritage Open Days, will take place throughout the weekend of September 16 and 17, all around the hamlet.
No tickets are needed for the two festival days because admission is free to everyone. This is because to the kind funding from the UK government's Levelling Up Fund that North Kesteven District Council has been entrusted with managing.
A free admittance lecture program sponsored by The Viking Society for Northern Research will operate on both days in addition to all the action in the living history camp and battlefield.
The Georgian Festival in Folkingham was held earlier this year. Photo: Graydon Jones
To whet the appetite, Mark Randerson, a heritage officer from North Yorkshire Council who has conducted research on this, will give a presentation on Friday at 7.30 p.m. in St. Peter's Church on the topic of Viking camps and The Great Heathen Army.
Tickets for this ticketed event will be on sale at the end of August through Eventbrite or at the door.
This weekend will also feature a recreation of the 870 AD Battle of Stow, as well as a demonstration of the laborious search for Viking relics by an archaeologist digging in a test pit.
The Aveland History Group hosted a Medieval Festival in 2021. Photo: Graydon Jones
The carried over Georgian Festival in Folkingham earlier this year was one of the previous living history events offered by the Aveland History Group. Another Medieval festival is scheduled for 2021.
"We are hoping that families will flock to learn more about our ancestors from the days of the Danelaw," said Alison Carr, secretary of the Aveland History Group.
