[MR] [Fwd: Fw: A Viking Thyng]

[Tanner Lovelace]

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Subject: Fw: A Viking Thyng
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 01:28:00 -0400
From: jamesahowell at juno.com
To: kendrick at wayfarer.org



         Greetings!

                 Could you please post this to the Merry Rose?  Many
thanks, Finnr





                         A VIKING THYNG

                       September 28-30, 2001
                     Gold Hill, VA (New Site!)



Let all who have suits to settle, marriages to arrange, goods to be
traded or challenges to make bring their business to the Tingvellir!  Be
you Norse, Irish, Scots, Welsh, Angle, Frisian, Finn or Norman come to
the social event of the Nordic year, the Althyng.



We offer again many of your favorite pastimes.  We encourage you to play
in persona-bring suit before the Thyng, join a clan and help settle a
feud (melee battle), barter and trade, or challenge an opponent to
holmganga.



Please bring your Viking tents to add to the atmosphere; there is a
period only camping area.  The theme of the A & S competitions once
again is "Tools of the Trade".  Bring your period tools for what ever
craft you do.  There will be a competition for individual tools, as well
as for the best tool set for a craft.  For the tool set competition you
do not have to have made all the tools yourself.  We will be looking for
completeness, appropriateness, and appearance.



Classes in various Viking arts and crafts will be held.



Archery, axe throwing and bardic activities return, as well as the
infamous Magyar Memorial Bunny Hunt and Free For All.  Enjoy a simple
but hearty feast Saturday night and help judge the Tacky Viking
contest.  Also, weather permitting, there will be a class in Norse
astronomy on the main field after dinner.   Bring your blankets and lay
out under the open sky and learn the constellations-see which stars to
steer by.



We are using a new site this year, which is extremely primitive- please
bring your Pennsic showers and drinking water.  The site opens at noon
on Friday and closes at 6 p.m. on Sunday.  There are a couple of motels
in Fork Union if you are not inclined to camp.



Fees:Before Sept.16
Adults- $7 for the first day, $3 for each succeeding day, $8 for feast.
Children age 5-15- $4 for the first day, $2 for each succeeding day,  $5
for feast.  Children under 5 are the guests of the College.


After Sept. 16, please add $1 per day and $2 for feast.

Please send reservations to the Head Troll, Lady Ciar O'Byrne

c/o Eileen George

200 Stanmore Rd.,

Richmond, Va., 23236.



Dietary concerns to the cook, the Honorable Giles O'Culzean, at
keaswedy at yahoo.com <mailto:keaswedy at yahoo.com> no later than Thursday,
September 20.



The event Autocrat is Finnr Grimulfsson (James Howell)

jamesahowell at juno.com <mailto:jamesahowell at juno.com>

996 Dorset Road,

Powhatan, VA, 23139.

  (804) 598-4658, nlt 10:00 p.m.

Merchants are welcome.  Please contact the autocrat to reserve space.





DIRECTIONS-New Site:



Take your best route to I-64 between Richmond and Charlottesville.
  >From I-64 East or West, take exit 136. Get on Route 15 South at Zion's
Crossroads (in direction of Exxon station, Burger King, and McDonald's).
Follow Rt. 15 South to Dixie. When you reach Dixie, stay to the right to
continue on Rt. 15 past Fork Union Military Academy (2 miles), across
the James River Bridge (6.4 miles from Dixie), and past Jax (9.9 miles
past Dixie) to its intersection with Rt. 810 (12.5 miles total from
Dixie). Kenny and Jennifer live in the first white house on your left
(northeast corner of the intersection). Look for the K&W Repair service
van in the circle driveway (in front of the smaller "office" building).


"Better is alive than lifeless to be; the living can always get a cow.
The halt can ride a horse, the hand-less drive a flock, the deaf can
bravely battle.
A blind man is better than a burned one; a corpse is useless to all."
Havamal
My home page http://homestead.juno.com/jamesahowell/Finnston.html
The Manx http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheManx

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