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Viking Statue, Miss Maud's
An image of the giant Viking head statue located outside Miss Maud's Swedish restaurant and bakehouse on Fitzgerald Street in Perth, WA.
The figure has a long, bushy beard and is wearing a horned helmet. It appears to be made of limestone.…
The figure has a long, bushy beard and is wearing a horned helmet. It appears to be made of limestone.…
Tags: bakehouse, bakery, dining, eating, figure, figures, Fitzgerald Street, food, helmet, horned helmet, hotel, limestone, Miss Maud, Perth, restaurant, Scandinavia, sculpture, statue, statues, Sweden, Swedish, viking, vikings, WA, Western Australia
‘Vikings Visited Cairns’, Rex Gilroy, Psychic Australia
This article from ‘Psychic Australia’ in March 1977 by Rex Gilroy claims that Norse/Scandinavian sailors visited the South Pacific and northern Australia. The article, ‘Vikings Visited Cairns’’, is now freely available…
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.
Sea serpent roof ornament, Lyttleton Street, East Launceston, Tasmania
One of three photographs of domestic roof-top adornments in Lyttleton Street, East Launceston. The ornament on this roof creates a sea serpent effect, with its body coiling along the roof line and its head raised to look over the roof. Also known as…