It’s time to dust off your horned helmets and ready your appetite, because the Danish Sisterhood’s annual Viking Feast is this weekend.

The 11th annual event is only a small fraction of the century-long history and roots the Danish community has on the Plateau; this year’s event is scheduled for Oct. 12, starting at 5 p.m. at the Danish Sisterhood building.

Featured at the feast is a four course meal with appetizers, a soup, the entree (which includes a whole smoked pig), and dessert, plus one beverage with dinner (and more to purchase).

There will also be live entertainment with skits about Norse mythologies and a raffle.

And, of course, dressing up is highly encouraged.

For more information and to purchase tickets ($65 each), go to enumclawdanishsisterhood.com, fill out the form, and mail the form and a check to Pepe Terou at PO Box 1163, Enumclaw, WA, 98022 (and you cal call 360-802-4326 with any questions).

An RSVP is required, as there are limited seats.

A LITTLE HISTORY

The Danish Sisterhood has been a part of the Plateau since 1904, three decades after Sarne and Kris Sorenson, and Julius and Louis Nicholas settled in the area as the first Danes of Enumclaw.

The local Danish Brotherhood chapter was formed in 1898, the same year the Farmer’s Mutual Insurance Company (now known as Mutual of Enumclaw) was formed.

The Sisterhood is credited with creating Enumclaw’s first library in 1907, though it was originally only populated with books in Danish.

For over a century, the Sisterhood has maintained the Danish Hall even after the Brotherhood disbanded in 1995.