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Photos from Way Back:

These images are from the early days of ASK, and even before. They are, where possible, in chronological order.
Some of them are of poor quality, but they are the only ones we have.

      
   

   Leicester 1984

The Ravens Warband (Arthurians)
Fighting with / against a group from Leicester. Tracey is in this picture (centre, facing).
     
   

   Borrowdale 1985

The Ravens Warband (Arthurians) started at Newcastle University, England, at the begining of the 1980s. About half of this group are still involved in reenactment, including Tracey, Rab, and Chris.
Romano-British v early Saxons around 500 AD.
Fighting on Borrowdale.
     
   

   Borrowdale 1985

Fishing.
     
   

   Borrowdale 1985

Model of Stonehenge by Ravens Warband.
     
   

   Moesgaard 1986

The market, with the campsite to the left and beach to the right.
Moesgaard (or Moesgård) is Denmarks largest and probably first Viking event. It was started by Icelandic horse enthusiasts, in cooperation with some of the people from the museum.
     
       Moesgaard 1986

The beach.
By 1986 there was at least one Viking ship replica (almost certainly Imme Aros), and some early Viking tents.
     
       Moesgaard 1986

Looking south along the beach.

The thatched building is a boat house that no longer exists.
     
   

   Borrowdale 1987

Ravens Warband training.
There are traces of snow.
     
   

   Borrowdale 1987

Ravens Warband training.
Rab and Chris are in this shot.

 

     
   

   Borrowdale 1987

Ravens Warband.
     
       Moesgaard 1987

English fighters arrived at Moesgaard in the mid to late eighties.
     
       Moesgaard 1987
     
       Moesgaard 1987
     
   

   West Stowe 1987

A reconstructed Saxon village in England.
This photo may be from a previous year.
     
   

   West Stowe 1987

Groups meeting, possibly for the first time.
Background: Valhalla including Oleg (with spear), Snorri (in black), Bob Davis (just visible with blue), Mike (blue tunic).
Foreground: Ravens Warband.
     
   

   West Stowe 1987

Some Ravens Warband seen from behind.
     
   

   West Stowe 1987

Ravens Warband uphill.
The ASK-like shield isn't.
     
   

   West Stowe 1987
     
       Moesgaard 1988

The campsite; authentic camping started a few years before, but has not caught on:
The plastic covered wagon is actually horse drawn.
     
       Moesgaard 1988

Ungdomslejren putting up a tarpaulin over their fireplace.
     
       Moesgaard 1988

More plastic near the woods at the west.
     
       Moesgaard 1990
     
       Moesgaard 1990
     
       Moesgaard 1990
     
       Moesgaard 1991
     
       Hastings 1991

... or possibly 1996

Norman knights, not ASK.
     
       Hastings
     
   

   Hastings

There is a blue and white quartered Valhalla shield and a discarded helmet.
     
       Hastings

Some Valhalla to the right.
     
       Moesgaard 1992
     
       Moesgaard early 1990s

Günter's dogs and tent.
     
       Berlin 1992

Yggdrasil (from which ASK, Brimir and Wunjo formed) supporting the Viking and Whitechrist exhibition in Berlin (East Berlin just after the Wall came down).
Ellen to the extreme right.
     
       Berlin 1992

The way back.
Sawing off the broken bus trailer tongue. Cooling the only saw blade with lots of very cheap German beer.
     
       Copenhagen 1993

Yggdrasil with the Viking and Whitechrist exhibition in the Danish National Museum.
Jo and Reinhardt.
     
       Wolin 1993

Icelandic horses at the first Wolin meeting.

Wolin, on the Polish - German border, might have been the site of the Viking stronghold of Jomsborg.
     
       Fighters at Wolin 1993
     
       Wolin 1993
     
       Ribe 1994

Fahl / Bork's new boat.
     
       Ribe 1994
     
       Borre 1994

Brimir and ASK camp at Borre, south of Oslo, Norway.
     
       Borre 1994

More Brimir and ASK.
     
       Church

Original Viking church in Norway.
Photo from 1994 after the Borre event.
     
       Falh Kro 1994

Practice at Falh Kro (now Bork Havn) on the west coast of Jutland, Denmark .
     
       Borre 1995
     
       Borre 1995

Brimir and ASK camp.
Children working on the forge.
     
       Lindholm Høje 1995

Mostly ASK in Jutland, Denmark.
     
       Lindholm Høje 1995

Brimir camp.
     
       Eindhoven mid 1990s

Reconstructed buildings in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
     
       Eindhoven mid 1990s
     
       Iceland 1995
     
       Trelleborg 1995

... or maybe 1996.
This is a reconstruction at the Viking ringfort at Trelleborg, on the Danish island of Sealand.

Ellen, from the early days of ASK.
     
       Vammen 1996

ASK, Ulfhednir and others at spring training in Jutland.
A small rope-pull catapult.
     
       Trelleborg 1996

Reconstruction of quarter of a Viking ringfort in Trelleborg, Sweden.
     
       Trelleborg 1996
     
       Moesgaard 1996

Ellen riding a horse.