This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A cold drizzle falls as we shiver in the streets, waiting for the Viking lord and his band of raiders to appear.
The Vikings called the occasion a “Whiteout.” It looked like a reenactment of the infamous Halloween blizzard of 1991. The score that would have fit the occasion would have been a shutout ...
A Viking re-enactment group, known as Odinn's Raven Guard, is walking the 200-mile (321km) trek in aid of charity. On the penultimate day of the festival a "spectacular procession of hundreds of ...