We are in “Battle for the Tap” at Bailey’s in Chapel Hill, NC this Thursday night at 7pm. Please come!
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The MVA has a strong and long standing association with the Haakonson Viking Group from Bergen in Norway. The Norwegians regularly attend the Magnus Barelegs Festival
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The first of the Magnus Viking Association’s television roles was in Channel 4’s “The Worst Jobs In History”, hosted by Tony Robinson
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“I am starting to think that Strangford Lough is the Budweiser of English Pale Ales. But unlike Budweiser, these beers are actually pretty tasty.”
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The MVA entertained and educated a number of Community groups from around Down District, North Down and the Ards on the theme of Viking life, as part of the “PEACE III” Community History Project
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Blood of the Norse: Chapter 6 - The Magnus Viking Association Education Programme For Schools
Our education programme for schools introduces the students to Viking family life by re-enacting the family unit, in the form of husband, wife, slave girl, trader and Viking warrior. The programme is very interactive.
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Day Two of the Magnus Barelegs Festival consists of international charity boat races which are held in Killyleagh Harbour
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The festival has developed over the past ten years into the most successful and longest running period festival in Ireland. It is a joint project hosted by the Killyleagh Social Partnership in conjunction with the Magnus Viking Association.
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Tony Davies, MD of SLBC Ireland gave a great presentation entitled ‘Is Social Media Scary?’ to 90 NI Business delegates at the ‘Digital Marketing for Export’ seminar in Belfast yesterday morning
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824 - Vikings sack Bangor Abbey. They destroy the wooden church and in an act of sacrilege they shake the relics of St.Colmgall from their shrine. Also Movilla Abbey is raided and burnt.
