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Read more about the article Origins and anvils: JORVIK forges ahead with new summer experience!

Origins and anvils: JORVIK forges ahead with new summer experience!

  • Post author:Jorvik Webmaster
  • Post published:9th July 2025
  • Post category:Exhibition/New Exhibition/Vikings

From 19 July to 31 August 2025 Warriors with swords, a blacksmith showing his bladed wares and the origin story of how the Great Heathen Army arrived in York awaits…

Continue ReadingOrigins and anvils: JORVIK forges ahead with new summer experience!

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