{"id":50,"date":"2025-05-22T23:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T23:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:26:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:26:42","slug":"about-savgr-about-the-organization","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/about-savgr-about-the-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"About SAVGR &#8211; About the Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">About The Society of Amateur Vikings for General Reenactment (SAVGR)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Educational-Moment-Shield-Wall-1024x479.jpg\" alt=\"Educating on Shield Wall\" class=\"wp-image-121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Educational-Moment-Shield-Wall-1024x479.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Educational-Moment-Shield-Wall-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Educational-Moment-Shield-Wall-768x359.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Educational-Moment-Shield-Wall-1536x718.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Educational-Moment-Shield-Wall.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The Society of Amateur Vikings for General Reenactment (SAVGR) is a family friendly group of Viking Reenactors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">We wish to dispel the myths surrounding Viking History \/ Society. Vikings had a stigma of being the dirty, angry barbarian for a long time. We aim to show that Vikings were regular people who lived regular lives. Our creed is education, interactivity, and entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">We pride ourselves on being easy-going and interactive. Our members range from the casual Viking enthusiast to part-time educators. We have all levels of reenactor here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">As a 501c(3) non-profit organization, we offer educational, entertaining, and interactive short demonstrations\/programming to schools as well as the events we support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">In our camp, come play a game. Ask us about our camp, or anything Viking you fancy. So bring your shield, mead horn, family, or just your own curiousity with you when you visit us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Where we are Located<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">We are based out of Southeastern Virginia, but welcome members from all over the Mid-Atlantic. We travel anywhere in Virginia, Maryland, and to Central and Eastern North Carolina. We hope to travel even farther as our membership grows!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About The Society of Amateur Vikings for General Reenactment (SAVGR) The Society of Amateur Vikings for General Reenactment (SAVGR) is a family friendly group of Viking Reenactors. We wish to dispel the myths surrounding Viking History \/ Society. Vikings had a stigma of being the dirty, angry barbarian for a long time. We aim to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"savgr-template","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savgr.org\/yule-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}