{"id":9039,"date":"2015-04-24T12:28:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T11:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=9039"},"modified":"2015-04-24T12:28:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T11:28:59","slug":"vikings-monks-family-fun-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2015\/04\/vikings-monks-family-fun-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings &#038; Monks Family Fun Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>On Sunday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> May, take a step back to a time when Armagh was a seat of great learning, when monastic settlements were producing valuable manuscripts and when Armagh was under threat of invasion from the Vikings.<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pressrelease27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9040\" title=\"pressrelease\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pressrelease27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a>Experience life as a monk using a quill and ink to copy text from the Book of Armagh. The chief scribe will teach you of life in in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> century, on work in the scriptorium and on the how the scribes were under the constant threat of the Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>See life from the eyes of the Vikings as you make your Viking shield ready for battle and join the Vikings in their settlement.\u00a0 Experience life as a Viking child, a life which involved hard graft and sometimes slavery.\u00a0 Test your Viking bravery as take part in our interactive theatre reliving life on a Viking ship, a ship which is heading straight for battle!<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Viking and Monks trail and try to find artefacts from the time.<\/p>\n<p>Shows at 11.00am, 1.00pm and 3.00pm.\u00a0 Cost just \u00a36.50 per person, under 4\u2019s free.<\/p>\n<p>Booking essential on www.armagh.co.uk\/vikings<\/p>\n<p>For information contact, Navan Centre &amp; Fort, 81 Killylea Road, Armagh.\u00a0 BT60 4LD Tel 028 3752 9644<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 3rd May, take a step back to a time when Armagh was a seat of great learning, when monastic settlements were producing valuable manuscripts and when Armagh was under threat of invasion from the Vikings. Experience life as a monk using a quill and ink to copy text from the Book of Armagh. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2015\/04\/vikings-monks-family-fun-day\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9041,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9039\/revisions\/9041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}