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"Jest and Quip. Undergrads' Day Out. Mirth in City Streets"

Jest and Quip_The Brisbane Courier_4 May 1929_p19.pdf

This article taken from The Brisbane Courier in 1929 discusses undergraduate students from the University of Queensland taking to the streets on "Commem Day". The author compares them to medieval mummers.The anonymous author also explains that on…

Tags: "commem day", "commemoration procession", "medieval mummers", "student pranks", "University of Queensland", "university student", Brisbane, Brisbane Courier, jester, mummer, mummery, Queensland

"Jokes in Stone", in The Sydney Morning Herald

SMH 1954 Frid 9 July Univ Q'land Gargoyles Stone.pdf

Newspaper article regarding a carving by the sculptor Thomas Muller. The carving is said to bear a resemblance to the economist Colin Clark. By carving the gargoyle-like creature in the image of a public figure, the journalist argues that Muller has…

Tags: Colin Clark, gargoyle, gargoyles, jest, jesting, medieval sculpture, mummer, mummery, Queensland, sculpture, stone carving, stone mason, stone masonry, Theodore Muller, University of QLD, University of Queensland

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

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