Gimli (Canada) (AFP) – Swords and battle axes drawn, shields up, combatants thrust and parry in a stunning recreation of Viking battles at the Icelandic Festival of Manitoba in Canada’s midwest.The annual Gimli summer festival dates back 126 years to the colonization of the south shore of Lake Winnipeg by Icelandic immigrants.The small town 46 miles (75 kilometers) north of Winnipeg is home to the largest concentration of residents with Icelandic ancestry outside Iceland and during four days every August hosts a festival which attracts as many as 70,000 visitors.The migrants came in the late 1800s along with several other …read more
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