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Swordcraft

Swordcraft is a live medieval re-enactment roleplaying game in which players wear realistic costumes and fight with realistic-looking weapons made of rubber and foam, and padded arrows. For photographs see the Gallery on their website. The group is…

Tags: Archery, Armour, arrow, battle, costume, fantasy, game, J.R.R. Tolkien, Melbourne, Orc, performance, re-enactment, roleplay, Swordcraft, The Lord of the Rings, Vic, Victoria, Warhammer, weapons, World of War

Sword-fight, Balingup Medieval Carnivale parade

A close-up digital photograph of a section of the parade at the Balingup Medieval Carnivale. This image features an impromptu sword-fight. Unfortunately for the combatant on horseback, he has no clear height advantage over his opponent on foot. The…

Tags: Balingup, Balingup Medieval Carnivale, battle, carnival, horse, knight, knights, parade, re-creation, recreation, Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup, South-West WA, sword, sword-fight, swords, WA, weaponry, weapons, Western Australia

Sword World Australasia

Sword World Australasia is a Perth-based company which specialises in creating high quality military swords and accessories. A large number of period swords are available, including many from the medieval period, such as those associated with the…

Tags: battle, battles, combat, display, Perth, re-creation, sword, Sword World, WA, Western Australia

Swan Bells

The Bell Tower, on the Swan River in Perth, houses the Swan Bells, including twelve medieval bells formally from the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square, London. The bells are known to have existed in the fourteenth century and were…

Tags: bell tower, bells, Captain James Cook, England, London, Perth, royal bells, Spanish Armada, St Martin-in-the-Field, Swan Bells, Swan River, The University of Western Australia, Trafalgar Square, WA, Western Australia

Svensk Viking

A letter to the Pen Name Competition of the Western Mail newspaper, Perth, by Svensk Viking. The letter describes how the author chose their pen name as they grew up in Sweden (Svensk translates to â€˜Swedishâ€™) listening to older children…

Tags: pen name, Perth, saga, sagas, Sweden, viking, vikings, WA, Western Australia, Western Mail

Suncorp Home Loan Hero advertisement

A 2012 television advertisement for Suncorp Banking features a bank lender briefly appearing to a couple as their hero, a medieval knight wearing plate armour. He is literally a knight in shining armour as a halo appears around his upper body, and…

Tags: Advert, advertisement, Armour, bank, chivalry, hero, knight, plate armour, Suncorp, Suncorp Banking, Suncorp Home Loan Hero, television, tv.

Suit of armour, Balingup Medieval Carnivale

A photograph of a suit of armour at the Balingup Medieval Carnivale. The suit is made of plate armour, dating it to post 1300. The suit includes a helmet with visor, breastplate, gorget, cuisse, and poleyn.

Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Bayswater

This photograph shows the Russian Orthodox Sts. Peter and Paul Church in the Perth suburb of Bayswater. The church has the typical orthodox/Byzantine architectural features of a dome (symbolising the heavens) on top of a square church building…

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