Open dining is provided throughout the day so guests can partake in the finest in local cuisine at any time of the day. Expertly trained chefs use the freshest ingredients to prepare regional delicacies which match perfectly with hand-picked bottles of local wines. Off-boat activities are also offered to compliment the on-ship portion of your voyage. Try your hands at local activities and customs to get the real-world feel of the area you are traveling in.
From music to food and wine tastings, you will have many tales to bring back to your friends and family. For breakfast, choose from our selections of pastries, cereals, breakfast meats, egg dishes, fresh fruit and selected cheeses.
At lunch, select from the soup and sandwich bar, or a choice of entrees and dessert. And for dinner, you are treated to a five-course gourmet menu with regional specialties. You can also select from our regional wines to perfectly complement your meal. And wherever you sail, you will find enhancements reflecting your itinerary-it is all part of experiencing the local culture.
Cultural Highlights To complement your onshore excursions, take part in Viking Spirit's Cultural Highlights-immersive learning and enhancement activities both on board and ashore: French cuisine workshop Traditional performances of folk music and dance Tastings of local cheeses, coffees, liqueurs and other delicacies These in-depth experiences are included as an essential part of discovering more about the places through which you cruise, and each activity is planned specifically to illuminate each itinerary.
Culture Curriculum Sometimes you want to dig a little deeper. Viking Spirit offers a series of onboard multimedia talks to shed light on the history and culture of the places you visit. Learn about: French cuisine and winemaking Joan of Arc in Rouen; the papacy in Avignon Key artistic movements that took place in France Roman ruins in the south of France The beaches of Normandy Key words and phrases in the French language These presentations provide a context for your own observations, enhancing your travel experience.
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Complimentary Beverages on Viking River Cruises Viking is the most all-inclusive of all river cruise lines. And starting this year, Viking provides complimentary wine, beer and soft drinks with onboard dinner and lunch service to enhance your dining experience. No Booking Fees! We do not charge booking fees on any cruises! You're sure to enjoy an affordable Viking Spirit cruise when booking with us! New research seeks a more inclusive view, sensitive not only to the distinctions between sex and gender but also pushing back against the caricature of masculinity that has come to symbolise the Vikings and their time.
The social pressures laid upon men and women were undoubtedly very real. But the Vikings were also familiar with what would today be called queer identities. While the majority of male and female-bodied individuals certainly presented respectively as men and women, we know that some people signalled their identity differently. For example, we find a very small number of male bodies dressed in what we would otherwise see as feminine attire, with the classic oval brooches and bead necklaces.
There is a saga reference to women who dressed as men, and there were actually legal codes prohibiting people from adopting the clothes or hairstyles of another gender which surely implies that some were doing just that.
Nor can we rely on conventional assumptions that link activity and gender — in Norway, for example, more men than women were buried with cooking equipment.
For everyone, regardless of their status, daily life was a process of negotiation, a bargaining with the beings of the other worlds in order to prosper or simply to be left alone.
To do this, intermediaries were needed, individuals with particular skills who felt at home in the margins, who knew the seams where the worlds joined.
Some 40 specific terms are known for male and female sorcerers, each with their talents and tools. Magic, and magicians, also saturate the Icelandic sagas of the Middle Ages, and sorcery is much more of a presence there than the gods. In the cults of the gods and the sorcerous performances alike, the most powerful practitioners of these arts were women, and it is clear that a special kind of access to the other worlds lay in the female realm.
The goddesses, too, were beings of immense power, including Freyja, Frigg and Idun. Not so long ago, the great fleets and armies that devastated western Europe in the ninth century tended to be seen as homogeneous groups. The Vikings were a faceless horde of barbarians intent on nothing more than looting and destruction. Thanks to excavations of their winter camps in England and Ireland, isotopic analyses of army mass graves, and new work on metal detector finds, an entirely different picture has emerged in recent years.
This supports the ship counts given in the contemporary written sources, previously thought to be wild exaggerations. Significantly, it is clear that the camps were occupied not only by men but also by women and children — in other words, by families.
The enclosures also supported trade and rudimentary manufacturing, with connections to the surrounding territories and probably a modicum of self-sufficiency. Studies of Scandinavian jewellery types found in the Danelaw the area of eastern England under Viking control in the ninth century , combined with DNA analyses, suggest that Scandinavian women may have migrated in their thousands.
The larger Viking forces were conglomerates of these smaller parties, each with their own agendas and objectives, and liable to divide or recombine according to circumstance. At least some of these bands may have been based on kinship.
These hulking skeletons are believed to have been the descendants of Vikings who colonized northern France and, later, southern Italy and Sicily. A new paper published in the journal Science in Poland describes how a team of researchers uncovered the skeletons—and how the Norse seafarers made it all the way to Sicily.
Throughout the 8th and 9th century, Vikings began traveling south from Scandinavia to raid the monasteries and towns of what is today France. By , they were so present, and ferocious, that the French king was forced to cede part of northern France to them. Some Vikings settled there permanently, eventually becoming known as the Normans—Norse men—of Normandy. Later, the same Viking spirit saw them traveling throughout the continent, on expeditions to the United Kingdom and southern Italy.
Large bones found at an Italian excavation site are believed to belong to Viking descendants.
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