HALF-TERM visitors to York braved driving rain and bitterly cold winds yesterday to visit a Viking encampment in Parliament Street.
The ‘Great Viking Army Camp’ has been set up as part of the city’s annual Jorvik Viking Festival, and they will both continue until Sunday.
It offers a chance to get up-close to the warriors and join the hustle and bustle of Viking life in a living history experience intended to show how the Norsemen and women of the period lived, what they traded and what they wore
Viking blacksmith Jim Glazzard, who is pictured here with sparks flying as he forges iron arrow heads, said he had the warmest job in the camp.
The weather forecast is better for today and the rest of the festival, with some sunshine and mostly dry conditions, although windy at times and with isolated showers.
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