• The programme for the 2002 Festival - 20/21 July 2002
  • Historical background on the two protagonists - Iago ab Idwal and Godfrey Haraldsson
  • The script for the centrepiece of the Festival
  • Viking jewellery
  • Viking food
  • The re-enactment society, with a very good list of and other
  • Hodding Carter's recreation of the voyage made by Leif Eriksson from Greenland to Newfoundland. This site will have regular updates from the crew of the authentic replica of a Viking knarr (open-deck boat).

(right) We build it, we float it, then we burn it! Titch Craddock and Cameron Stokes threaten mayhem at this year's Amlwch Viking Festival.

 

The Festival re-enacts the Battle of Ynys Môn (Anglesey) in 972 AD, when a Viking raiding party under Godfrey Haraldsson attacked the lands of Iago ab Idwal, King of Gwynedd and Powys.