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A Viking's Sword

A highly romanticised article on page 46 of the Brisbane newspaper The Queenslander on 17 May, 1934. The article reports on a male Viking warrior grave uncovered in Sweden. Among the various grave-goods found was a sword made in England. This leads…

Tags: battle, battles, Brisbane, burial, England, Norseman, Qld, Queensland, raiding, sacrifice, ship, ships, Sweden, sword, swords, The Queenslander, viking, war, warfare, weapon, weaponry, weapons

â€˜Alfred Was Great Kingâ€™

‘Alfred Was Great King’ is an anonymous article that appeared in the Charters Towers, Queensland, newspaper The Northern Miner in 1954. The article is about the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon/English king Alfred of Wessex, or Alfred the Great.…

Tags: Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Charters Towers, Danes, education, England, King Alfred, law, literature, navy, Old English Chronicle, Qld, Queensland, The Northern Miner, vikings, Wessex.

â€˜Vikings Visited Cairnsâ€™, 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…

Tags: BifrÃ¶st, Cairns, horned helmet, Mysterious Australia, Norse, Odin, opera, Psychic Australia, Qld, Queensland, Rex Gilroy, Richard Wagner, Ring Cycle, Scandinavia, ship, swastika, Thor, Valkyrie, viking, Vikings Visited Cairns, website.

Abbey Medieval Festival, Queensland

The Abbey Medieval Festival is held in the Queensland town of Caboolture, north of Brisbane, and is a major fundraising event held by the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology. The Festival is a week-long event that commences with a medieval banquet,…

Tags: Abbey, Abbey Medieval Festival, Abbey Museum, Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, Banquet, battle, Caboolture, costume, dancing, festival, jousting, market, music, Qld, Queensland, re-enactment, tournament

Adaptation: Studies in Transmission between Cultures and Forms

A 2011 undergraduate unit run by Associate Professor Frances Bonner in the School of English, Media and Art History at the St Lucia campus of The University of Queensland. Week 7 of the unit uses Tolkienâ€™s books informed by the early medieval…

Tags: Brisbane, fiction, J.R.R. Tolkien, literature, Qld, Queensland, The Lord of the Rings, The University of Queensland, Tolkien, universities, university

Ancient Viking Ships

An article on page 46 of the Brisbane newspaper The Queenslander on May 26, 1932. The public interest piece reports on the decision of the Norwegian government to reconstruct the Viking-Age Gokstad ship from the pieces recovered during excavation. It…

Tags: Brisbane, Gokstad, Norway, Norwegian, Qld, Queensland, reconstruction, ship, shipbuilding, ships, The Queenslander, viking, vikings

Australian Morris Ring

Australian Morris Ring is an organisation that represents Australian Morris dancers. It represents ‘sides’, or Morris dancing teams, in all Australian states and territories except the Northern Territory. The groups perform the Cotswold,…

Black Wolf re-enactment group

Black Wolf is a living history/re-enactment group based in the Queensland town of Allora. They are focus on the Crusades and Crusader experiences in the Middle East during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Their leader is ‘Duke Robert…

Tags: Allora, Armour, Black Wolf, blog, caravan, chain mail, costume, Crusader, Crusades, Duke Robert, helmet, Holy Land, Ibn Battuta, knight, living history, Marco Polo, merchant, Middle East, multicultural, outremer, Qld, Queensland, re-enactment, shield, Silk Road, sword, trade, website.

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