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Viking Memories
A review of the film The Viking on page 14 of the Adelaide newspaper ‘The Advertiser’ 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.…
Viking Raiders
Amongst the comics and list of pen friends on page 6 of the Supplement in Adelaide’s The Mail newspaper on July 5, 1947, was a copied drawing of a Viking ship under full sail by Brian Bowley, aged 11. Images of Viking-style ships are known…
Viking Runes at the Perth Medieval Fayre
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Image of person in costume stamping initials into leather using the Viking alphabet, or Fuþark. Runic inscriptions are attested from c. 150 CE and were used by a number of ‘Germanic’ peoples. During the Viking Age (c. 800-1100) the…
Viking Runes Display at the Perth Medieval Fayre
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Image of person in costume stamping initials into leather using the Viking alphabet, or Fuþark. Runic inscriptions are attested from c. 150 CE and were used by a number of ‘Germanic’ peoples. During the Viking Age (c. 800-1100) the…
Viking Ship
Image of a recreation Viking ship built by Royce Carrig of Perth. The wooden ship was built from plans of an excavated Viking ship, and can usually be found anchored in the Swan River at the 1st Pelican Point Sea Scout Group base in Crawley. It is…
Viking Ship Greets King
An article in the ‘Townsville Daily Bulletin’ newspaper in Queensland on June 18, 1949. The article is about a replica Viking ship built by a Swedish vegetarian sports and youth movement that was based on an original from the British…
Viking Ship Shop Sign, South Australia
This photograph shows a sign above the Viking Furniture shop in Mount Compass in the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia. The sign depicts a Viking dragon ship, or longship, made of wood, featuring a dragon head and tail, mast, and shields along…
Viking Song
A poem included in the ‘Poems and Rhymes’ section on page 4 of the Adelaide newspaper ‘The Register’ on August 31, 1918. The poem evokes the Norse gods Odin and Thor in its imagery of shipbuilding, specifically modern steel…