Members of Regia Anglorum re-enacting a Viking funeral at the Jorvik Viking festival York 2006

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The Jorvik Viking Centre runs a viking festival over a two week period each year. Over 14 million people have visited the Jorvik Viking Centre which is situauted on the site of the York Archeological trusts excavation site of Viking York. Their website is at Regia Anglorum is a national society who recreate many facets of english life mainly focused on the period from AD950-1066 and occasionally in the decades to either side of this period. Their website is at

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Location: York, Yorkshire, England, Europe
Photo credit: © Tony Wright/earthscapes / Alamy / Afripics
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