The Academy at Jorvik Viking Festival

Tyr Neilsen is the first Norwegian to be invited to demonstrate the Viking martial art of Laustak at the biggest Viking Festival in Europe!

                                                        Tyr Neilsen - the first Norwegian to demonstrate the Viking martial art of Glima at jorvik Viking Festival

Instructors from the Academy of Viking Martial Arts in Norway are the first Norwegians to be invited to Europe's largest viking festival to demonstrate Laustak - The Martial Arts system of the Vikings! 

"I traveled down to the Jorvik Viking Festival to seek inspiration , get ideas and talk to the people behind the festival. So it was great that Jorvik Viking Festival had invited Tyr Neilsen as the first Norwegian to actively participate in the festival, both in combat and in the academic program." says Ole Harald Flåten of the Saga Oseberg project, and Project Manager at Tønsberg Viking Festival. 

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The Academy would like to give a big thanks to Andy Mckie, Jarl of the Volsung Viking group in York, for his invitation to the Academy of Viking Martial Arts, so we could demonstrate the art of Laustak at the 31st Jorvik Viking Festival in febuary 2015. 

It was an honor for us to be able to participate in this great event, the largest Viking festival in Europe. We would also like to thank all of the Volsung Vikings, the English Vikings at the central camp, and the Jorvik arrangers, for their generous hospitality and warmth and for making the festival so memorable.