GREAT NORTHERN PENINSULA, N.L. — Wendy Nuttall had a vision for a new year-end festival on the Great Northern Peninsula and soon it will become reality.
From Oct. 3-6, the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula will be hosting the first ever Great Northern Viking Festival.
Nuttall, acting as coordinator, conceived of the annual event as a celebration to mark the end of the peninsula’s tourist season.
She worked to organize the event through the summer and has found a number of different partners to help get the festival running.
It will incorporate different aspects of the region’s heritage and culture, with a number of events centered around Vikings and the fishery.
Events will take place in St. Anthony, Quirpon, Straitsview, Hay Cove and L’Anse aux Meadows.
Great Northern Viking Festival Events, Oct. 3 – 6
October 3, 2019
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Viking Site
10 a.m. & 2 p.m
Dark Tickle Economuse’e, Berry Walk, St. Lunaire-Griquet
Contact: (709) 623-2354
[email protected]
7 p.m.
Movie Night & Popcorn at Parks Canada, National Historic L’Anse aux Meadows Viking Site, visitor centre at L’Anse aux Meadows
October 4, 2019
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Viking Site
10 a.m. & 2 p.m.
Dark Tickle Economuse’e, Berry Walk, St. Lunaire- Griquet
Contact: (709) 623-2354
[email protected]
12 p.m.
Baked Cod Lunch
Presented by Café Nymph and the Norseman Restaurant with live performances, recitations and folk tales, St. Lunaire-Griquet
Contact: [email protected]
5 – 7 p.m.
‘For the Love of Cod’
Seven-course dinner with local entertainer Calvin Blake. Venue to be announced. For tickets and updated information contact: [email protected] or (709) 623-2811
October 5, 2019
11 a.m.
Inshore fishing demonstration in the fishing village of Quirpon
Get an up close first-hand look at fishing people at work. Using a gaff to hook a buoy in the water, plus other everyday skills that have been passed down through generations of Newfoundland fishing people.
In addition, skippers will maneuver boats through a predesigned course. This event is a team competition with three fisherpersons to a boat. This is a great spectator event, so come and cheer on your favourite team.
In case of a rough sea, the inshore fishing demonstration activities will be held on shore. Other activities will also be held to show the skillset of a fisherman.
To register your boat team, contact [email protected] or contact Marilyn Earle at 709-623-2069 or 709-454-5262
6 p.m.
Steak Night with Live Entertainment from Jordan Mugford and Albert Kinsella at Haven Inn, St. Anthony
Contact: [email protected] or (709) 454-9100
October 6, 2019
8 p.m.
Skipper Hots Famous Kitchen Party with Irish & Newfoundland Music.
Skipper Hot’s Band will entertain will entertain with its ever popular Screech-Ins with signed Screech-In Certificate.
Plus, Viking Festival - Best Dressed Viking awards & prizes will be awarded. Vikings and Non-Vikings are welcome in the community of Straitsview at Skipper Hot’s Pub N’ Grub
Contact: (709) 623-2343 or [email protected]
8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Great Northern Peninsula Viking Breakfast served by Re-enactment Vikings. Watch for venue to be announced.
