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â€˜Golfreise durchâ€™s Outbackâ€™ article

An article in the German edition of Golf Digest magazine about Thorngrove Manor Hotel in Stirling. As well as highlighting the features of the luxury boutique hotel the article provides information on nearby golf courses. The Kenneth Lehmann building…

Tags: accommodation, Adelaide Hills, castle, fantasy, Golf Digest magazine, Gothic, hotel, Kenneth Lehmann, recreation, SA, South Australia, Stirling, Thorngrove, Thorngrove Manor Hotel, tourism, towers, turrets, Victorian Gothic

â€˜Peasantâ€™; or â€˜Pilgrimâ€™

This photograph was taken at the Gumeracha Medieval Fair, Adelaide Hills, South Australia by photographer Wendi Donaldson (May 2011). The image is entitled â€˜Peasant,â€™ but seeing as the man is wearing a scallop-shell as a badge in his…

Tags: Adelaide Hills, Camino de Santiago de Compostela, cockleshell, Gumeracha Medieval Fair, medieval costume, neo-medieval, peasant, pilgrim, pilgrimage, re-enactment, reneactment, SA, South Australia Wendi Donaldson

â€˜The Madness of King Kennethâ€™ Article

An article by Max Anderson in the Adelaide Hills Magazine about Thorngrove Manor Hotel in Stirling. The building functions as a luxury boutique hotel and the article includes an interview with the architect and builder, owner Kenneth Lehmann. The…

Tags: Adelaide Hills, Adelaide Hills Magazine, castle, fantasy, Gothic, Kenneth Lehmann, Max Anderson, recreation, SA, South Australia, Stirling, Thorngrove, Thorngrove Manner Hotel, towers, turrets, Victorian Gothic

â€˜The Vikingâ€™ poem

A poem by J.A. Fort published in the UK magazine The Spectator and reprinted on page 5 of the Adelaide newspaper The Register on September 25, 1926. The poem describes the attraction of going on a Viking raid by ship, including the knowledge that if…

Tags: Adelaide, Freya, J.A. Fort, legend, legends, Norsemen, Odin, poem, poems, poet, poetry, raid, SA, saga, ships, skald, South Australia, The Register, The Spectator, Thor, Valhalla, viking, vikings

â€˜The Warriorâ€™

This photo, taken by photographer Wendi Donaldson at the Gumeracha Medieval Fair in South Australia in May 2011, provides a unique glimpse of a â€˜livingâ€™ early medieval warrior (who could be from almost anywhere in Europe). It depicts a…

Ancilla Domini; or, Handmaid or â€˜maid servantâ€™ of the Lord

This work by Australian artist Rupert Bunny was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1996. It depicts the religious subject of the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel descended from heaven to tell Mary that she would conceive the son of…

Tags: Adam, angel, Annunciation, art, colour, curtain, Eden, Eve, Gabriel, lilies, Mary, Pre-Raphaelite, religious art, Renaissance art, rose, Rupert Bunny (1864-1947), SA, South Australia, symbolism, vermillion, virgin

Apse, Christ Church, North Adelaide

A view of the neo-romanesque apse at Christ Church, North Adelaide. An apse is an octagonal or semi-circular domed recess that protrudes from the Eastern wall of a church. They were popular additions to transepts in medieval Romanesque architecture.…

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,…

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