'Viking ship spotted off remote NT island'
ABC, ABC News, Arnhem Land, article, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, dragon ship, Elcho Island, longship, news, Northern Territory, NT, replica, Russia, ship, Sydney, Viking, website, Tim Wethers.
<p>‘Viking ship spotted off remote NT island’ appeared on the online version of ABC News on September 18, 2012. The replica Viking ship was seen off the coast of Elcho<br />Island in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. The ship was sailed by a crew of six Russians from Europe and was heading for a museum in Sydney. The Viking longship<br />is often referred to as a dragon ship due to the carved figure-head on the bow, as seen in the photograph of the replica by Tim Wethers.</p>
<p>The article is available<br />at <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-18/viking-ship-spotted-off-nt/4266796">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-18/viking-ship-spotted-off-nt/4266796</a></p>
Wethers, Tim
September 18, 2012
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Online newspaper article; Hyperlink
Maypole dancing around Australia
ACT, Australian Capital Territory, dance, festival, folk, folk dance, New South Wales, NSW, Norfolk Island, Northern Territory, NT, Qld, Queensland, SA, South Australia, Tas, Tasmania, Vic, Victoria, WA, Wales, Western Australia
Maypoles and the folk dance associated with them are a popular event, often involving children, at festivals throughout Australia. The origins, and possible symbolism, of Maypole dancing are uncertain but they can be traced back at least as far as the late medieval period, with a mid-fourteenth-century Welsh poem describing a Maypole of birch. The top of the pole often has coloured ribbons attached and the dance involves the participants moving in a circle around the pole weaving in and out, thereby forming a woven pattern with the ribbons around the Maypole. The links in this entry are of early Maypole dances from all States and Territories of Australia, as well as Norfolk Island. The age of some of the photographs suggest that the tradition of Maypole dancing may have arrived with the earliest European settlers.
14 June 2012
National Archives of Australia, National Library of Australia, Northern Territory Library, Picture Victoria, State Library of New South Wales, State Library of South Australia, State Library of Tasmania, State Library of Western Australia, Wollongong City Library.
Hyperlinks
The Viking
advertisement, advertisements, Viking, vikings, cinema, Darwin, film, Gorm, Harald Bluetooth, Northern Territory, Northern Territory Times, NT, poetry, saga, Skald
A poem advertising the film ‘The Viking’ 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 with the Vikings, including sagas, skalds, the North Sea, and serpent vessels.
Anon.
National Library of Australia
The Northern Territory Times
24 July 1931
No Copyright
Newspaper Advertisement; PDF
English