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War Sword store

War Sword is a store specialising in swords and armour in the Brisbane suburb of Carina, Queensland. They sell various re-creations of medieval weapons, including axes, halberds, shields, spears, swords, and helmets and full suits of armour. There…

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Viking Memories

A review of the film The Viking on page 14 of the Adelaide newspaper â€˜The Advertiserâ€™ on October 17, 1929. The film was about Lief Eriksson, or Leif the Lucky, the leader of possibly the first group of Europeans to reach North America.…

Tags: Adelaide, cinema, dragon, dragon ships, film, films, Lief Eriksson, movie, movies, Norseman, Norway, SA, saga, ship, ships, South Australia, The Advertiser, viking, vikings

The Viking

A poem advertising the film â€˜The Vikingâ€™ on page 6 of the Darwin newspaper, the Northern Territory Times on July 24, 1931. The poem mentions historical Viking Age Danish kings Gorm and his son Harald Bluetooth, and other terms associated…

Tags: advertisement, advertisements, cinema, Darwin, film, Gorm, Harald Bluetooth, Northern Territory, Northern Territory Times, NT, poetry, saga, skald, viking, vikings

Shakespeare Unit

Level 2 undergraduate unit â€˜Shakespeareâ€™ coordinated by Peter Eckersall at the University of Melbourne. In part the unit investigates film and television adaptations of Shakespeareâ€™s plays, and two plays set in the medieval period…

Tags: adaption, drama, dramatic, film, films, Hamlet, MacBeth, Melbourne, Peter Eckersall, Shakespeare, television, universities, university, University of Melbourne, Victoria, William Shakespeare

Shakespeare in Adaptation unit

Second and third year undergraduate unit at La Trobe University (Bundoora campus, in Melbourne)coordinated by Chris Palmer. The unit examines four of Shakespeareâ€™s plays, including two film versions of each play. One of the plays set during…

Tags: adaptation, Bundoora, Chris Palmer, drama, film, La Trobe University, MacBeth, Melbourne, Shakespeare, university, Victoria, William Shakespeare

Sex, Power, and Chivalry â€“ Medieval to Modern Literature

An undergraduate unit taught by Louise Dâ€™Arcens at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales. The unit begins with literature from the medieval period, including texts by Malory, Marie de France, the Gawain poet and Troubadours,…

Tags: Alfred Tennyson, cinema, Clint Eastwood, fiction, film, literature, Louise Dâ€™Arcens, Miguel de Cervantes, New South Wales, NSW, poetry, universities, university, University of Wollongong, William Morris, Wollongong

Mythistory: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Medieval Imagination

Aposter for the second and third year undergraduate course ‘Mythistory’ offered at The University of Western Australia. The course examines popular science fiction and fantasy films and literature of the twentieth and twenty-first…

Minervaâ€™s Tower at Balingup Medieval Carnival 2012 film

This 11 minute film on YouTube shows has been pieced together from separate performances by Minerva’s Tower at the 2012 Balingup Medieval Carnivale. The event was held in the town of Balingup in the south-west of Western Australia on August…

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