JORVIK, York’s famous Viking museum, is 40 this year.
So it was only fitting that when the city’s medieval Merchant Adventurer’s Hall staged a battle or words between some of York’s brightest schoolchildren on Wednesday night, it was the Vikings who hogged a lot of the limelight.
Specifically, the question of whether the Vikings were ‘victorious heroes’ or ‘vicious villains’.
Josephine Will and Cora Hawkins from Lord Deramore’s School just couldn’t agree.
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