Official FAQ Thread

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Jordan

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I take the next one :
Is it possible to have an official english translation of the news referring to the Wackingers ?

There's an english announcement, but the other news were in german only.

Thanks.
 
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I take the next one :
Is it possible to have an official english translation of the news referring to the Wackingers ?

There's an english announcement, but the other news were in german only.

Thanks.

I'm pretty sure I had translated the whole stuff, wasn't it postet? I will check out my components and if I find the stuff I will post it tomorrow ! :cool:
 

Jordan

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ok, get it, hear is the first one: Wickingerdorf!!! Have fun:D

The vikings’ village:
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„A close experience of the viking-culture” is the theme, presenting sensational show-fights, weapon expertise, weapon museum, very authentical handcraft as forging, chain mail-creation and horn-graving.
Wacken-fans will enjoy jugglery, fascinating flambeau-shows, “viking-shamans”, viking-fights, which sometimes can end up in duels by proving skills in archery, javeling and axe throwing or in vikings’ trial in courage, in order to proof how brave a Wacken-fan is.
 
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The second one:

The Camp Of Knight-Army
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The „Evne“-people with more than 150 knights, precious madams, knaves and mades as well as craftmen, countrymen, traiders, jugglers and players, moncs and flaghoppers are holding court in WACKEN!
At “The Wackingers” you will discover a great army-camp of the “Evne”-people, aiming to show you the “vivid middle ages”.
The army-camp of the “Evne”-people contains more than 40 tents and ca.150 actors, from infants the aged.
Struggles and jousts will be carried on, an extra highlight offered by knights with swordplays will re-enact the battle of Worringen, with which they already gained much of furore.
But taking pride in acient arts and traditions enfolds much more: courtly dance, eating and drinking bout (the so called camp-life) and a local “Bruchenball”-cup (the precursor of Soccer and Rugby).

The Bruchenball-game ist rooted in apprenticeship of knaves to knights. The sense of the game was to enable the knave to rescue his lord during a battle, when injured. They’d sew a sack from cowhide and put the fir cones inside, which had a weight of 140 kg. This game was so poplular that, that more and more injuries happened.
First the participants had been checked up for weapons, but the situation didn’t get really better due to the huge creativity of the perticipants. They decided to control the hiding places for weapons. Thus, from 12th century on they played wearing only the typical long underwear, called “Bruche”. But this fact didn’t realy exclude injuries by the usual punches.
Nowadays the sacks are sewed by leashes and are filled with hey or cloth strips.
For Bruchenball-cup interested teams can contact the following mail-adress:
norbert@veytal.com anmelden.
 
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The third one:

The Highland Games:
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We can present you the Highland Games at W:O:A!
If musclemen wear kilts – if they got a determined and fearless facial expression – if they lift heavy stone-balls on a platform – if they roll vats and flip weights in the air or if they shoulder a 5,70 m long trunk and carry it throuh a slalom-area of pales – then it’s time for HIGHLAND GAMES.
For years a group called “Lowlander” from Redensburg presents the Highland Games succesfully in the whole country. They will present different disciplines at “The Wackinger”.
Primary these disciplines arised to find the strongest man in the village (clan). Then this guy had to serve as an bodyguard to the clan-chief or had to lead the whole clan into a battle.
Based on the original games from Scotland, the athlets match in the most different disciplines.
Because of the tradition everybody wears an ancient kilt, which were handmade with an eye for detail.
The combination of power, endurance and skills make the Higland Games that interesting and diversified .
At the games the fans of Wacken can show, how much a „man“ they are and how they look like compared to the “Heavies”.
Please send a massage to the following number in order to take an active part at the Highland Games: sb-392122@versanet.de
 
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And last but not least the fourth one:

The role-playing people:
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„Little Mythodea“ : ConQuest at Wacken!
With live-adventures’ own ConQuest-team the Wacken fan gets a brilliant view into the different facets of Live-Action-Rollplay – also known as LARP.
The ConQuest-team of live adventure stage is the biggest LARP-event in Europe,where 4000 players and 1000 none-characters (actors) meet every year to fill up the fantastic continent Mythodea with life.
That means to solve about 1000 single plots, quests, enigmas and adventures with your own mind, with fighting and with fortune, to influence the fate of Mythodea in a different direction.
Every day this team will stage roll-games. Have you ever thought about being a knight and going into battle or being a noble lady wich appears in a minstrels song? Then the hobby of Live Adventure is the dam’ right thing for you! Here you can do exactly those things!
With effects, masks and supernumeraries the ConQuest-team stages expensive fantasy- scenarios, where the W:O:A fan can dip in!
Here the fan can meet the most fascinating characters and can decide spontaneously about participating into the rollgame and can match himself in a swordbattle.

Without any extra costs, with “The Wackinger” the makers of W:O:A will give you the biggest and most unique Midgle Age event on a Metal Festival in the whole world.

The ConQuest-team will stage a piece of fantasy-world, where every Wacken-fan is invited to immerge in, due to the complexely constructed scenarios with effects, vizards, statists.
Here you can meet fascinating charakters and decide spontaniously to take actively part in role plays or to compete with others in sword games.