medievalpoc:Philly gets its very own Renaissance FaireDesigning a Ren fest specifically for a big-ci
medievalpoc:Philly gets its very own Renaissance FaireDesigning a Ren fest specifically for a big-city audience, Rodgers says, has meant doing some things differently at this Faire than at most. For starters, its cast of performers boasts not just a merry improv troupe of knights, jugglers and tavern wenches but a relative big-name headliner: Hafþór Júlíus “Thor” Björnsson, the Icelandic strongman who stars in HBO’s Game of Thrones as “The Mountain,” the giant, 420-pound warrior who serves House Lannister. At the Philadelphia Renaissance Faire, Björnsson will play Thor, King of the Vikings, in a storyline that will see his crew of Norsemen land at the Faire’s fictional trade outpost of Amman.That’s another way this festival is unique: Where most others are set decidedly in a fantasy version of medieval England or France, the Philadelphia Renaissance Faire boasts an elaborately constructed backstory that draws upon the full diversity of the Middle Ages’ most multicultural mercantile hubs. It pulls elements, for instance, from Moorish Iberia, the centuries-long era when Northern Africans occupied much of Spain, Sicily and France, and from the Jewish and Muslim cultures of Spanish Córdoba.Read more -- source link
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