"The Götheborg Welcoming Party"
Götheborg, ship, boat, Swedish, Sweden, Fremantle, Fremantle Harbour, Miss Maud, viking, vikings, bakehouse, hotel, restaurant
A hyperlink to an archived news article on the Miss Maud's website. On 13 May 2006 employees of Miss Maud's bakehouse, hotel, restaurant and pastry houses welcomed the Swedish Ship Götheborg as it stopped off at Fremantle Harbour on its journey from Sweden to China.
According to the article, the Miss Maud employees donned "viking helmets complete with matching swords" to welcome in the ship.
(Follow the hyperlink to see the full article and accompanying images of the welcoming of the Götheborg).
Miss Maud
www.missmaud.com.au/ArchivedArticles/tabid/235/ArticleID/110/Default.aspx
Miss Maude
13 May 2006
Miss Maud
Hyperlink/Online news article
English
‘Vikings Visited Cairns’, Rex Gilroy, Psychic Australia
Bifröst, Cairns, Rex Gilroy, horned helmet, Mysterious Australia, Norse, Odin, opera, Psychic Australia, Qld, Queensland, Ring Cycle, Scandinavia, ship, swastika, Thor, Valkyrie, Viking, Vikings Visited Cairns, Richard Wagner, website.
<p>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 online on the Mysterious Australia website. The article includes various arguments for a Norse presence in the south Pacific, including swastika symbols found in rock and wood art in Java, Cambodia, Malaya, and Vietnam, the shape of war canoes in Fiji, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Tonga, and the physical appearance of some of the native inhabitants of New Guinea. Similar arguments are then applied to northern Australia, augmented by a comparison between northern-Australian Aboriginal religious beliefs and those of the Norse, such as the existence of a rainbow bridge (Bifröst in Old Norse texts) in both cultures, and spirits, or Valkyries, carrying off the dead after a battle. Gilroy also considers rock art near Cairns, Queensland, to show warriors dressed as Vikings in horned helmets. The author’s belief that Vikings wore horned and winged helmets, both of which became popularly associated with Vikings through the costumes used in Richard Wagner’s (1813-1883) Ring Cycle operas (although there is evidence for the ceremonial use of horned helmets in pre-Viking age Scandinavia), and the confusion in calling Wotan/Oðin/Odin the thunder god instead of Þorr/Thor, allows for little confidence in the assertions of the article.</p>
<p>The article can be found at <a href="http://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/strangephenomenonh.html">http://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/strangephenomenonh.html</a></p>
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Gilroy, Rex
Psychic Australia (hard copy); Mysterious Australia (online)
March 1977
Copyright © 2006 - Uru Publications
Website
The Crimson Cog
Baltic Sea, cog, The Crimson Cog, Germany, Hanseatic League, Lübeck, merchant, New South Wales, North Sea, NSW, re-enactment, ship, trade, website.
<p>The Crimson Cog are a historical re-enactment group in New South Wales. They focus on the Hanseatic League in the years 1250-1300, particularly the city of Lübeck in northern Germany. The Hanseatic League were a confederation of merchant guilds and towns who dominated trade in the Baltic and North Seas from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. The Cog was a cargo ship used by the League.</p>
<p>For their website see <a href="http://crimsoncog.wix.com/crimson-cog">http://crimsoncog.wix.com/crimson-cog</a></p>
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Crimson Cog
Wix.com
Crimson Cog
Website
'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
Viking Brand label
Ad, advert, advertisement, dragon ship, Gokstad ship, Hobart, W.H. Ikin & Son, label, shield, ship, Tas, Tasmania, Viking, Viking Brand, Viking Brand Fancy Grade Pears.
<p>This pear case label for Viking Brand Fancy Grade Pears is approximately A4-size. It probably dates from 1938 or 1939 (see link below). Viking Brand were exported by W.H. Ikin & Son in Hobart and the produce was from Tasmania. The advert depicts a Viking dragon boat with both oars and sail being used. The boat also has round shields along its side, as is historically attested from the tenth-century Gokstad ship found in 1880 and now housed in the Viking Ship Museum near Oslo, Norway. The advertisement also proudly states that the pears are ‘Empire Produce’.</p>
<p>For more information see <a href="http://catalogue.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/item/?id=682142">http://catalogue.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/item/?id=682142</a></p>
Viking Brand
1938-1939
Viking Brand
Scanned document/JPEG
MacLaurin Window, Nicholson Vestibule, University of Sydney
Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon, James I/VI, Sir Henry Normand MacLaurin, MacLaurin Window, navy, New South Wales, Nicholson Vestibule, NSW, ship, stained glass, Sydney, University of Sydney, Viking, Wessex
The MacLaurin Window was created in 1920 and can be found in the Nicholson Vestibule lighting the staircase. The window has a portrait of Sir Henry Normand MacLaurin, Chancellor of the University of Sydney from 1896 to 1914, flanked by James I (England) and VI (Scotland) (1566-1625), and Alfred the Great (849-899). Alfred was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex (roughly England south of the Thames) and his dynasty later unified England. Alfred is shown holding a warship, perhaps due to the notion that he was the father of the English navy due to the ships that he had constructed to help counter Viking attacks.
White, David
University of Sydney
11 February 2012
University of Sydney, David White (photograph in link)
Hyperlink
Viking Ship Shop Sign, South Australia
Adelaide Hills, Artis Zalups, Cape Jervis, dragon, dragon ship, longship, Mount Compass, SA, shop, shield, ship, sign, signage, South Australia, Viking, Viking Furniture
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 the side of the ship. Unfortunately the shop is empty so no report can be made of the Viking furniture.
One of the most famous dragon ships was the late tenth-century Ormen Lange (Long Serpent) of the Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason.
Dorey, Margaret
1 December 2011
Artis Zalups
Digital Photograph; JPEG
Viking Dragon Ship Article
Brisbane, The Brisbane Courier, ship, recreation, replica, QLD, Queensland, Viking, wizard
A newspaper article on page 7 of the Queensland newspaper The Brisbane Courier on 11 August, 1908. The article reports on the reopening of the Viking Dragon Ship at St Paul’s Hall, and the accompanying entertainment. Described as a ‘Viking entertainment’, this included Ulfhednar, Wizard of the North, Grjotgurd the Nimble, Elfski, Hauk the Strong, and a wrestling demonstration.
Anon.
National Library of Australia
The Brisbane Courier
11 August 1908
No Copyright
Newspaper Article; Hyperlink
English