The Largs Viking Festival is just over a month away and has lots of exciting events planned.

The festival will run from Saturday 2 to Sunday 10 September this year and the Parachute Regiment's Freefall Team, the Red Devils, are booked to end the festival on 10 September.

Their last appearance in 2015 drew a huge crowd and it is a great scoop for the organisers to secure their return.

And for the first time in its 37 year history, Morris Dancing will feature on the festival itinerary,

The Belfagan Women’s Morris side from the West Lakes area of Cumbria, around Cockermouth, will be performing at this year's festival.

They have been in existence since 1982 and dance in a style of dress based on the mill-girls of the cotton industry with leather topped clogs with wooden soles and heels. There are around twelve regular dancers and a group of four to six musicians.

This year's Hakon Hakonsson Lecture is entitled 'The People Behind the Runes - Scandinavians in the British Isles' by Professor Judith Jesch, and takes place at the Vallhalladrome, Vikingar, at 8pm on Thursday 7 September.

Last year, the Battle of Britain was commemorated with a spectacular and memorable RAF Lancaster Bomber display on Largs seafront, attended by Largs veteran Duncan Currie, and proved to be highly popular.

The Largs Viking Festival facebook page has links to a preview video of this year's festival, as well as early details about the 2017 programme schedule.

For more details, go online at https://largsvikingfestival.org/whats-on/