MANASSAS -- Vikings will return again to the most unlikely city: Manassas.
“I’ve just always wanted to do something Nordic,” said Erna Pomrenke, a city resident and founder of the Manassas Viking Festival.
Downtown Manassas will be visited by Vikings once again this May. Last year, close to 4,000 people attended last year’s inaugural event. The number of attendees “really took all of us by surprise,” Pomrenke said.
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