The Erie County Viking Fest is celebrating heritage this weekend in Union City.
The festival features Viking clans, blade-smiths, vendors with oddities and unique crafts, axe throwing, and even intuitive tattoos.
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Spiritual living fires, the burning of an ancestral ship to honor ancestors and ritual nights are planned with intentions are just a few of the festivities during the festival.
Organizers said the festival not only brings communities together, but also opens people’s minds to honoring history and their own past.
“As you go through life, if you want to know more where you’re going, understand where you’ve come from,” said Rich Konkol, co-founder of the Erie County Viking Fest. “Because it just, it gives you that, a little bit more completion of who you are, and then to see the trials that your ancestors have gone through, that’s really a big thing.”
The festival continues through the weekend with events planned throughout.
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