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Manuscript Illumination at the Perth Medieval Fayre
A woman demonstrating the medieval art of manuscript illumination at the Perth Medieval Fayre. ‘Illumination’ refers to the addition of decorations and illustrations around the text on a manuscript page. These illuminations formed an…
The Last Viking
The children’s picture book ‘The Last Viking’ by Australian authors Norman Jorgensen and James Foley (illustrator) published by the Western Australian publisher Fremantle Press. The story is about a boy who connects with his inner…
The Last Viking teaching blog
A blog for the children’s picture book ‘The Last Viking’ by Australian authors Norman Jorgensen and James Foley (illustrator) published by the Western Australian publisher Fremantle Press. The story is about a boy who connects…
On the Viking Trail
A travel report on page 4 of the Adelaide newspaper The Mail, on January 11, 1936. The report was written by artist and aviator Jeune Scott-Kemball who, with her mother, became the first South Australian women to visit Iceland. Despite its title, the…
Viking Tales: Olaf’s Farm
An illustrated story on page 48? Of the Brisbane newspaper, The Queenslander, published on 23 November, 1907. The story by Jennie Hall is about a young Viking from Denmark named Olaf who, as the youngest son, has to ‘go a-Viking’…
Tags: Brisbane, Denmark, dragon ship, fiction, illustration, Jennie Hall, literature, Norway, Odin, Qld, Queensland, ship, The Queenslander, Thor, Valhalla, viking, vikings
Midden Pits, Balingup Medieval Carnivale
A digital photograph of the transportable toilet area at the Balingup Medieval Carnivale. The area is referred to as ‘Midden Pits’, a term commonly used by archaeologists to describe pits containing household and human waste. The…
Sir Galahad and the Pale Nun
This photograph, taken by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1874, is held by the Art Gallery of South Australia. It depicts Sir Galahad, one of the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, and a nun. The illegitimate son of Lancelot and Elaine of…
Tags: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), art, Arthur, Arthurian, Arthurian legend, Arthurian romance, chivalric, chivalry, Galahad, gallantry, Holy Grail, Idylls of a King, illustration, knight, Le Morte d’Arthur, legend, Mabinogion, narrative poem, nostalgia, nun, piety, poem, purity, Sir Galahad, Sir Thomas Malory (1405-1471), Victorian revival
How Sir Bedivere cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water
This work was gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1960 by Mrs R.A. Haste. It is a line-block reproduction on paper depicting a scene from Thomas Malory’s fifteenth-century canonical Arthurian text Le Morte d’Arthur.…