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The battle of Clontarf
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With all due respect - and its great that there are alcohol free events that people can enjoy without being intimidated - but doesn't the reenactment of what was a brutal and violent event, with thousands of deaths and injuries, make anyone a bit uneasy ?
Does Game of Thrones have something to answer for ?? :pac:
What a load of nonsense.
Did you even go to the event?
There were over 500 "professional" Vikings there, living in an authentically re created Viking village, giving lessons & demonstrations on all kinds of aspects of life back then from cooking, clothes making, fire making and tending, boat craft, archery, horse craft, jewelry and bead making to sword making, falconry, tent building, baking, saddle making, beer making (
) crop gathering, money making. You name it, they covered it. It was fascinating. The battle reenactment was just one small part of what they did.
Any kid in attendance would have learned far more about life in the Vikings world in 30 minutes, than they could in years of reading books. The battle was all done in a very tongue in cheek way and, the violence was very toned down. The battle reenactment was done more as a history lesson, than it was a celebration of blood and gore. They explained who was fighting who & why, where they all came from, how the landscape would have looked back then, how the winning battle tactics won the day & what the long term implications were for the winners and losers.
A lot of people put a lot of hard work and effort went into making the event that massive success that it was. To dismiss them as a bunch of Game of Thrones wannabes does them all a tremendous disservice.0 -
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Did anyone else see the tinfoil hat lady on Saturday afternoon? In her 50s (ish) with a Chinese takeaway try on her head with a piece of elastic around her chin. Wearing normal clothes too.
Very, very odd.
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Went in with the missus on Saturday, as other have said, it was absolutely brilliant, ProudDub's post is bang on the money.
If you got to the battle reenactment about 15 minutes before it was due to start or hung on after the falconry display you'd have been fine. As an aside, did anyone else think that the fact that the guy doing the voice over during the battles sounded exactly like Dylan Moran gave it an even more surreal twist???
Anyway, hats off to the council, would love to see more events like that, lived in Germany years back and have been back a good few times and there's a lot of public events put on that are always very well supported and lead to a great sense of civic pride, great to see something similar on my own doorstep.0 -
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