The short version
- Espen Hatleskog and Marie Stokka got married on Saturday in Viking style on the Myklebustskipet in Nordfjordeid.
- Storting politician Abid Raja acted as the officiant, in the Viking Age called “law owner”, at the wedding.
- The wedding and subsequent party naturally included authentic Viking clothing and mead as a drink.
- Myklebustskipet, the world’s longest Viking ship, is scheduled to go out into the fjord every year from now on.
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Weddings, or law ownerA person who in the old days had the authority to pronounce laws and court decisions, here used in a historical context of someone who performs a marriage ceremony. for the party destinationFestermål is an agreement about marriage from the Viking Age. Festermål was legally binding for the parties and took place in witnessable forms. as it was called in the Viking Age for the Viking wedding?
The Liberal Party politician himself and lawyer Abid Raja!
– There is only one brown viking in Norway, so then I became the owner of the law. There are also traces of black Vikings in the saga, so then it became obvious that I should get the honorable assignment, says Raja to VG, clearly elated by what he refers to as “a memory for life”.
The couple from Sylf that Raja “married”, Espen Hatleskog (37) and Marie Stokka (32), have a great fascination for the Viking Age, they tell VG the day after the wedding.
A real Viking wedding was thus the only right location and the icing on the cake at Nordfjordeid on Saturday, when Myklebust shipThe ship is over 30 meters long.which is the world’s largest Viking shipThe Myklebust ship is the largest in the world by volume, and the longest in Norway. Roskilde 6 in Denmark is longer, but half as wide. The dragon Harald Hårfagre is technically bigger, but it is a fantasy ship.was out on the fjord again.
On Friday, the two got the feeling that it might be possible to get married laundry roomReal, authentic, or something that is completely what it claims to be. viking-wise. Less than a day later, the marriage was a fact.
– It was very spontaneous. It took less than a day from when we decided until we were married. After having sent in all the papers during Friday, we were suddenly married like Vikings, they say on the phone to VG.
The two came on the same errand from Jørpeland to Nordfjordeid to take part in the second launching of the world’s longest Viking ship.
Hatleskog refers to itself as the largest “Viking flu”A person who influences others through social media with content related to the Viking Age. in Norway, with its 1.3 million followers on Instagram. After gaining interest from his wife as well, it thus became a Viking wedding.
– Abid is cool
The “Vikings” Espen and Marie decided to give bån gas, and as the interest and fascination for the Viking age is enormous among the newly married couple, it was only natural to get married in these surroundings.
– It was a complete plan, from start to finish. Viking clothes were a matter of course, and of course there was mead as a soft drink at the wedding party.
– Raja says there is only one brown viking in Norway. Was that why he was chosen as law owner?
– Abid is cool, he, so it was completely king. He and the mayor had to argue about who should get the honorable assignment, but he seemed very happy to be allowed to marry us, says Hatleskog.
Raja will not fully agree with that description.
– It is not true. I was told that the mayor was not allowed to consecrate on the advice of the municipal director. The reason is that the mayor has real matrimonial lawThe right a person has to perform an official wedding, that is to marry two people., and thus no right to fool around with weddings. That is why I was asked, because representatives of the Storting do not have the right to marry. On the other hand, I have a great license to joke, says Raja, rather jokingly.
– Wish there was one time machineA hypothetical device that could, in theory, be used to travel in time. so that the honeymoon could be completed in the important time?
– It would have been cool to have a honeymoon in the Viking Age, but I damn well wouldn’t have stayed there. But we have to come up with some other trick, says Hatleskog.
Wife Stokkan, who also has a birthday on Sunday, follows up:
– Today we visited tripA journey or expedition, often used of military or voyages of discovery, here used in a historical context of Viking voyages. with the Viking ship to complete the session!
Raja got help for the speech
Raja himself is delighted to have married the married couple. He was actually supposed to run the Sentrumsløpet in Oslo on Saturday, but instead ended up being the owner of Nordfjordeid.
– It was an incredibly fun day, and very nice and kind Vikings. Absolutely raw, he summarizes about the spontaneous role as law owner.
Since Raja was thrown into the role in a short time, he also got good help with “writing the speech”:
– As a typical Viking, I used the best methods for the task. Had to therefore hastily and hastily feed ChatGPT with key words such as viking wedding, fjord, celebration and law owner.
– Are you going to include the Viking Age in the election campaign next year?
– It is an important part of our cultural heritage, or not meRaja’s parents came to Norway from Pakistan. He himself married in his parents’ country of birth., then, but ethnic Norwegians. If there are more wild Viking ideas, I will support them, but it is unlikely that there will be any mead in the election campaign.
The Myklebust ship will re-enter the Sagastad center after the voyage at sea on Sunday, but is scheduled to go out on the fjord for new voyages every year from now on.
Press contact at the Sagastad centre, Jacob Bredesen, says the whole thing was a great success.
– This is the first time someone has gotten married in the Myklebust ship out at sea, so this was a lot of fun. It was sporty by both the married couple and Abid, and it was an insane effort by volunteers to get this set up, says Bredesen to VG.
PS: A Viking party goal is not formally approved by the Norwegian state as legally valid. After the trip to sea, a formal was therefore also carried out civil marriageA non-religious wedding performed by a civil authority, such as a mayor or other public official. with head of culture in Stad municipality, Geir Holmen, officiating.
This ceremony was of course carried out on board the Myklebustskipet – and with all the actors in full viking mouth Uniform or special dress, here used for Viking clothing..
