![]() ![]() Nordic Warriors is a fully 3D real time tactics game, with a fully rotating camera. The normal zombies, pretty easy to take out when they clump up in narrow spaces, but be careful, they’re still dangerous up close Presentation The setting itself is a somewhat generic pop-culture Viking setting, with fantasy elements, so it has most of the things you would expect from it, like longboats and big burly shirtless men with an axe in each hand. Nordic warriors does not have the most inspired plot ever, but it still gives you a good motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing, and why you need to stop the enemy. She fights her way through them, and finds her father, mortally wounded, and with his dying breath, he tells her that she’s the only one who can stop this.įreja sets out with the few remaining warriors she has, in an attempt to seek aid from the king, and put an end to this nightmare. Hordes of creatures from beyond the grave has slaughtered everyone who lives there. Being attuned to the world she’s able to sense that something is wrong.Īs she returns to her village, she finds that it’s been attacked. ![]() On a faithful day, a young shaman named Freja sets out to find a group of missing people. In a world not entirely unlike our own (circa year 1000), there were tribes of Norsemen. Children under 12 are admitted free.Of course there are longboats in this game! (Although you can’t actually go into them) Story & Setting ![]() One $10 ticket covers daily admission to both events. Foods from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland also draw enthusiastic crowds. Inside, the Scandinavian Marketplace hosts craftsworkers selling rosemaling, wood carvings, jewelry, woolen clothing and home furnishings. While reenactors live Viking-style outside on the grounds, the Nordic Culture Clubs’ Scandinavian Hjemkomst Festival will occupy much of the Hjemkomst Center. (He’s still waiting to learn of plans for this fall, when the team plays in its new stadium.) He and three friends also have worked with the Minnesota Vikings football team, dressing in their authentic duds and opening the gates to let players onto the field for the past two seasons. A stay-at-home parent to son Stein, 2, he’s in his third year of coordinating the Viking Village at Minot’s Hostfest. The Moorhead Viking reenactment is one of several in which he’s now involved. He has made his own costume of textiles and leather, including his boots and bags. He became even more involved in 2002, when he spent the summer and fall semester there, touring Viking sites. Tim’s fondness for Viking lore and Viking ways dates back to 1999 when, as an MSUM undergrad, he participated in a study trip to Norway. Visitors can also sample Viking-style foods outdoors prepared by Kelly Wambach, the chef at the museum’s Rex Café. The Viking marketplace is expected to include a silversmith, two blacksmiths and leather craftsmen, all demonstrating their handiwork as well as selling it. As they visit and participate in activities at six outdoor and six indoor sites,they’ll be awarded beads similar to those uncovered by archeologist from days gone by. Youngsters receive a necklace with their admission. “There’s always a lot to see,” says Tim, who often demonstrates woodworking, leathercraft and other skills when he’s not busy coordinating all the players.Ī highlight of this year’s festival is Kids Quest. Others are expected from Oregon, central Texas, and the Omaha area, as well as the surrounding region. A contingent from North America’s largest Viking battle group, the Jomsvikings of Montreal, will bring the population of warriors to around 25. Fighting demonstrations are scheduled for 11 a.m. He predicts a highlight this year will be the bigger, better exhibitions of what Vikings are most famous for – theirbattles. Viking reenactor Tim Jorgenson has coordinated seven of the nine local encampments, including this one. ![]() All are prepared to chat about their clothing, tools and crafts throughout the two-day festival, which runs from 10 a.m. Enthusiastic costumed volunteers will populate the pop-upencampment, showing off the lifeways once familiar to the distant ancestors of a good share of area families. The park – situated between the Hjemkomst Center and the river – will be turned into a thousand-year-old Viking village. The now-quiet woods near the Red River in downtown Moorhead will come to life next week, when some 80 modern men and women will cast their tents, fire up their forges, limber up their vocal cords and prepare to do battle in the ninth annual Midwest Viking Festival in Viking Ship Park. ![]()
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