Viking Re-enactment - Wolin Island Festival

[Fjorn]

Wolin Island is the biggest viking festival of the year, every year. It is situated on the island of Wolin just of Poland and attracts 10,000 visitors a time. Please click here to see 50 photos of the 2004 festival:

Here (http://www.vinlandwinds.com/graveland/Wolin.htm) 2001

Here (http://vinlandwinds.com/graveland/wolin2004.zip) 2004 (zipped file)

and Here (http://www.capricornus.info/graveland/wolin2005/index.html) for website. 2005

Anyone got any real information out this event? Locations / booking details, hotels, tourist information centres, etc.

Wolin Island used to be a very important place for the Vikings, a thousand years ago. Today you can still find some of their remains, in the Wolin city museum for example. This small museum has an interesting exposition about Wolin in the Viking times.

http://www.capricornus.info/graveland/wolin2005/obraz%20277_2.jpg

Other true re-enactors, no tthose doing it just for fun:

http://www.ulfhednir.dk/uk/index.html

http://www.tryglaw.org/index.html

http://www.ulfhednar.org/

http://www.jomsvikings.com/

http://www.vikingsonline.org.uk/

[Fjorn]

Greetings Darken,

As mentioned in your introduction post and via PM, maybe you can help me in regard to Wolin Island and my questions above?

[Lutom]

Hello,

Here is Lutom from Poland, I'm also engage in re-enactiment of Viking period of time. Our group is oraganisator of Polish programe in Wolin Wiking Festiwal.

Wolin is the biggest Viking event in Europe.
So if you would get some more informations about this event write.
The same if you would like to get informations about other Polish re-enactient activity.

[Fjorn]

Greetings,

I would most definatley like more information on Polish heathen re-enactors.

Also, I have been looking for some time for information about Wolin Island - dates, hotels, camp sites, main contact for the festival, official website, etc but cannot find anything. Can you help?

[Lutom]

Hello,

Wolin always is in the first weekend of August.
Wolin is a little city about 5000 citizens ( in X century there was about 8000 )
so there can be problem with hotels but near ( about 10 km ) are turists towns near Baltic Sea ( Miedzyzdroje, Świnoujscie ) so you can find a lot of hotels there.
If you would like to get the phone number to the organisators "Stowarzyszenie Wolin Jombsborg Wineta" give me info on PM.
This is the oficial web site http://www.jomsborg-vineta.com/

Wolin as a city in Viking period was probably a Jomsborg the stonghold of the best warriors ever.

Sorry for my English

[Liffrea]

This is the oficial web site http://www.jomsborg-vineta.com/

Looks interesting. Is there an English translation though? My Polish is a bit rusty.

Do you, or Darken, have any other info on Heathenism in Poland?

[Fjorn]

Looks interesting. Is there an English translation though? My Polish is a bit rusty.

Do you, or Darken, have any other info on Heathenism in Poland?

I am getting all the relevent information and with permission will puttng an English information site together as this is something that we English only speaking Germanics miss out on. I am sure this fesitival is well advertised but ot the English speaking world, not so and I hope to help change that.

For the time being please use these Polish to English translaters:

http://www.poltran.com/

http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=Polish&to=English

[Fjorn]

Please see the beginning of the English page HERE (http://geocities.com/odinistlibrary/OLArticles/wolinisland.htm) for more information in English on this festival! :)