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â€˜Alfred Was Great Kingâ€™

‘Alfred Was Great King’ is an anonymous article that appeared in the Charters Towers, Queensland, newspaper The Northern Miner in 1954. The article is about the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon/English king Alfred of Wessex, or Alfred the Great.…

Tags: Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Charters Towers, Danes, education, England, King Alfred, law, literature, navy, Old English Chronicle, Qld, Queensland, The Northern Miner, vikings, Wessex.

Danelaw Medieval Fighting Society, New South Wales

Danelaw Medieval Fighting Society are a New South Wales re-enactment group who own The Danelaw, a 120 acre property in a pine forest between Sydney and Canberra that is used by re-enactment groups. The property includes a fort, axe- and…

Korffs Haven Medieval Guild

Korffs Haven Medieval Guild are a re-enactment group based in Coffs Harbour, or Korffs Haven, in New South Wales. The group concentrate on the period 1066-1166 and such peoples as Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Normans, Crusaders, Highlanders (of Scotland), and…

Tags: Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Archery, chain mail, Coffs Harbour, combat, cooking, costume, craft, Crusader, Crusades, dyeing, embroidery, feast, felting, food, games, helmet, Highlanders, Korffs Haven Medieval Guild, leatherwork, living history, New South Wales, Norman, NSW, performance, re-enactment, sewing, shield, slingshot, spear, stave, sword, viking, website, woodwork.

St Georgeâ€™s Chapel Interior, Perth, Western Australia

St George’s Anglican Chapel is the chapel of St George’s College, a residential college for students attending The University of Western Australia in Perth. The foundation stone of the chapel was laid in 1928 by Archbishop Riley, and the…

Maxwell Mead

The McLaren Vale, South Australia, company Maxwell Wines produce three varieties of Maxwell Mead. Their website explains that although mead was first drunk much earlier than the medieval period, it has a particularly strong association with…

Tags: Anglo-Saxon, Beowulf, beverage, honey wine, honeymoon, king, label, Maxwell Mead, Maxwell Wines, McLaren Vale, mead, poetry, SA, Scandinavia, South Australia, stained glass, sword, Viking.

Canterbury Cross, St Georgeâ€™s Cathedral, Perth

Image of a copy of an eighth-century cross in St Georgeâ€™s Cathedral, Perth. The cross was given to the Cathedral in 1935 by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral. The cross is on a stone plaque and is a copy of the Anglo-Saxon cross from…

Tags: Anglican, Anglo-Saxon, brooch, Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral, Christ Church, Christian, Christianity, copy, cross, Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, Latin, Perth, religion, religious, WA, Western Australia

Woden Valley, Canberra

Woden Valley is an area in the Australian capital Canberra. â€˜Wodenâ€™ was the name chosen by Dr James Murray for his property of 2500 acres purchased in 1837. He named it after the Anglo-Saxon god Woden (the Norse/Viking form is…

Tags: ACT, Anglo-Saxon, Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, god, James Murray, Norse, OÃžin, Odin, suburb, viking, Wednesday, Woden

The New Varangian Guard Inc

The New Varangian Guard are an Australian historical re-enactment group with fifteen branches throughout Australia. The group concentrate on the Byzantine (or Eastern Roman) Empire, particularly between the ninth and thirteenth centuries. During most…

Tags: Anglo-Saxon, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul, Norman, Norman Conquest, re-enactment, recreation, Rus, The Varangian Voice, Turkey, Varangian, Varangian Guard, viking

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