VIKINGS and KINGS

                                              Tyr Neilsen - viking fighting on travel channel series follow your past episode vikings and kings     Photo: T. Neilsen - B. Wemundstad

Travel Channel series FOLLOW YOUR PAST     Episode 1 - Vikings and Kings

Senior instructor with the AVK, Tyr Neilsen (57) demonstrated Viking fighting with weapons at Borre feast hall in Norway for the Travel Channel episode "Vikings and Kings". 

The episode is about the exciting heritage of two midwestern brothers who discover their past is filled with Viking warriors and royalty.

In the show, Tyr demonstrated armed and unarmed Glima to the brothers, quickly taught some basics, then let the brothers fight each other using the Viking combat techniques they had learned.     

This episode aired on the Travel Channel in 2016.     

http://www.travelchannel.com/shows/follow-your-past/episodes/vikings-and-kings