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Viking Tales: Olafâ€™s Farm

VikingTalesOlafsFarm BrisbaneCourier231107.pdf

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 â€˜go a-Vikingâ€™…

Tags: Brisbane, Denmark, dragon ship, fiction, illustration, Jennie Hall, literature, Norway, Odin, Qld, Queensland, ship, The Queenslander, Thor, Valhalla, viking, vikings

The Wolf Letters Website

Will Schaefer’s novel ‘The Wolf Letters’ is a murder-mystery set in England in 1936, but the murders relate to events in the eighth century. An historian investigates. The novel was inspired by the life of the Anglo-Saxon missionary…

Tags: Anglo-Saxon, literature, missionary, novel, Perth, promotion, St Boniface, The Wolf Letters, University of Western Australia, UWA, WA, Western Australia, Will Schaefer, Winfrith

The Other House

In this article from the Western Mail newspaper, notice is given about the publication of Henry Jamesâ€™s novel â€œThe Other Houseâ€. The novel had been published by William Heinemann in London the previous year (1896). The author of…

Tags: "William Heinemann - publisher", child-murder, drowning, fiction, Henry James, literature, marriage proposals, medieval barbarity, murder, novel

The Medieval Writerâ€™s window, The Great Hall at The University of Sydney

An image of one of a series of colourful and elaborate figural windows with trefoil heads created especially for The University of Sydney by the London firm of Clayton & Bell (c. 1859-60). The window depicts three well-known medieval writers:…

The Last Viking teaching blog

A blog for the childrenâ€™s picture book â€˜The Last Vikingâ€™ 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…

The Last Viking

The childrenâ€™s picture book â€˜The Last Vikingâ€™ 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…

Tags: child, children, Childrenâ€™s literature, fiction, Fremantle Press, illustration, James Foley, juvenile, literature, Norman Jorgensen, picture book, viking, WA, Western Australia, young adult

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…

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