Violent feuding, cunning witchcraft and poetic resolution make for a thrilling comedy drama commissioned for this February’s JORVIK Viking Festival.
Egil Skallagrimsson Keeps his Head is a first theatrical commission for York Archaeological Trust to mark its anniversary JORVIK Viking Festival. The new comedy drama has been written and will be performed by award winning North Country Theatre on 17th and 18th February as part of the week’s celebratory Viking Festival.
The high seas adventure tells the part-historical and part-mythical saga of Egil Skallagrimsson – 10th century Icelandic hard man – and how he falls into the hands of his old Viking enemy Erik Bloodaxe. When Egil and his crew are driven up the Humber into Erik Bloodaxe’s hands, their days of travelling, trading and trashing seem numbered. But Egil has more strings to his bow (and his harp) than Erik might imagine, using poetry and smarming to get him off the hook with the bloodthirsty King.
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