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Relive the Viking Age at Gimli summer festival
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The annual Icelandic Festival in Gimli, Manitoba, dating back 126 years to the colonisation of the south shore of Lake Winnipeg by Icelandic immigrants, sees about 70,000 visitors during the four days of the festival in August every year. Volunteers dressed as Vikings on August 1, 2015 during the Gimli summer festival. (AFP Photo/ Thibault Jourdan)
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Viking village members display Viking art and lifestyle to the public in Gimli, Manitoba. The small town 75 kilometers north of Winnipeg is home to the largest concentration of Icelandic ancestry outside of Iceland. (AFP Photo/ Thibault Jourdan)
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Volunteers are seen fighting like Vikings. (AFP Photo/ Thibault Jourdan)
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A girl looks on as a Viking woman shows Viking art, also known as Norse art. (AFP Photo/ Thibault Jourdan)
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Women stand on a Viking statue at the Icelandic Festival in Gimli, Manitoba. Vikings were famous fighters. (AFP Photo/ Thibault Jourdan)
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