Viking Jorvik

A friendly Viking

Saturday 21st February 2015

A visit to York (Jorvik) for the 2015 Viking Festival, the largest Viking Festival in Europe. The first time I have visited this event and it was absolutely fantastic. There were Viking warriors and their females all over the City in full costume. What amazed me was, despite people pushing cameras into their faces they were very approachable, explained their roles and dress and were quite keen to pose for photographs. I like this image as it sums up my childhood vision of a Viking, but alas, does not have the horns on the helmet! Full marks to the Viking re-enactment society and this gentleman who let me photograph him.