Student will have access to Nordik Kraft's static display containing many objects of Viking Age daily life. Students are able to touch raw fiber, completed threads, looms, sewing kits, and embellished garments. They can see examples of foods the vikings may have eaten and what they ate with. Games, runes, boxes, raw and carved drinking horns, carved bone salt cellars and jewelry and bone examples.

Students will learn to create lucet cord. Lucets are found in the Viking Age and make thread into cord.

This is a hands-on, one hour class, limited to five students at a time. Material costs are $20. Students receive a "starter" lucet, instruction sheet and two yards of wool yarn, sufficient to make an eight inch cord, suitable for a bracelet. Students will leave with a cord at least started, if not completed.

Cynthia lectures on creation of cloth during the Viking Age. Creation of clothing during the Viking Age was a laborious, time-consuming process. Tools and fiber are discussed. This lecture is about 45 minutes, allowing for questions. This lecture is generally associated with tools and raw materials passed around a smaller audience. It can be presented as an online or on-screen lecture as well.

Master Carver Ken Koll will lecture on carving bone with hand tools, from tool selection, materials, layout and technique.  This is a 2 hour lecture / discussion

The Viking Age tools we discuss are primarily from the Mastermyr toolbox find and a few other Medieval finds. While covering historical tools, we will discuss making your own tools and sharing resources for purchasing material and tools.  We will cover carving techniques and how bone reacts to the tool; Tool selection; Making ones own tools; Material selection and handling; Layout of pattern; Stop cuts and material removal; Cleanup, and detailing carving; and Finish and coloring

Ken will have reproductions of extant pieces from the Viking Age and Roman era, to pass around.  

Students will get the opportunity to touch material and tools, and perhaps some cuts time permitting. 

The tools are sharper than surgical tools and the hardness of the material makes control an issue, this is an intermediate class to bone carving, targeting people with some wood carving experience or those interested in period techniques.

We will cover modern tools and techniques briefly and how to use the two together but end up with a hand tool finish.

Either Ken or Cynthia will discuss the vikings of the Scandinavian Viking Age and dispel a few myths!

This is an introduction to the Viking Age history touching on major events that define the Viking Age.  We do a 45 minute quick overview of triggers that started the Viking Age and why we define the Viking Age as 793AD  to 1066AD.  We cover expansion and travels across Europe, Iceland, Greenland and the Americas.  We will cover the influences of the Viking Age into our modern pop culture, from Marvel to Tolkien and in between.  The mixing of Scandinavian words into modern English and how Viking Age law and customs effected the formation of our current law system in the United States. 

Either Ken or Cynthia will discuss some major activities that occurred in the Scandinavian Viking Age history. There's a LOT of ground to cover so this lecture will only skim the surface of major events. This is a 2 hour lecture/discussion.

Defining the culture of Scandinavian countries prior to 793AD and what built up to the Lindisfarne attack being the start date of the Viking Age.  From technologies, techniques and cultural impacts that created a people able to expand across the Atlantic from Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and to modern day Canada.  Expansion and cultural integration into modern day Russia, France, England and its influences today in language and culture.  

This lecture can be tweaked to be more in depth on particular events.