New Year Fire Festival
To celebrate its Viking heritage, the Yorkshire village of Flamborough has inaugurated a fire festival to welcome in the new year. Here is a video showing part of that celebration plus some still images. Viking Fire Festival Fire parade around Main Street, Flamborough The Nordic vessel paraded in Yorkshire In Norse times, Flamborough, with its distinctive white headland and beach at Thronwich Bay, would have been an ideal landmark for Scandinavian raiders to use as a navigation aid and landing site. They went on to settle Jorvik which became York and Wyke which is present day Kingston-upon-Hull.
