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Maypole dancing around Australia

Maypoles and the folk dance associated with them are a popular event, often involving children, at festivals throughout Australia. The origins, and possible symbolism, of Maypole dancing are uncertain but they can be traced back at least as far as…

Tags: ACT, Australian Capital Territory, dance, festival, folk, folk dance, maypole, New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Northern Territory, NSW, NT, Qld, Queensland, SA, South Australia, Tas, Tasmania, Vic, Victoria, WA, Wales, Western Australia

Camelot Castle for sale, Adelaide hills

Real estate listing for â€˜Camelot Castleâ€™ at Lot 52 Lobethal Road, Basket Range in the Adelaide Hills. The building has functioned as a hotel and wedding venue since 1972. The 3000 square metre building is named after the fictitious…

Tags: Adelaide Hills, arcading, arches, Arthurian, battlements, Camelot, castellation, castle, chapel, crenellation, real estate, recreation, SA, South Australia, towers

'The Anglo-Saxon World' Unit

Second year undergraduate unit â€˜The Anglo-Saxon Worldâ€™ coordinated by G.J. Tulloch at Flinders University. Although the unit focuses on Anglo-Saxon literature of the eighth to eleventh centuries, including an introduction to the Old…

Tags: Adelaide, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxons, England, fantasy, Flinders University, Graham Tulloch, J.R.R. Tolkien, pop culture, popular culture, South Australia, The Hobbit, Tolkien, universities, university

On the Viking Trail

A travel report on page 4 of the Adelaide newspaper The Mail, on January 11, 1936. The report was written by artist and aviator Jeune Scott-Kemball who, with her mother, became the first South Australian women to visit Iceland. Despite its title, the…

Tags: Adelaide, Iceland, illustration, Jeune Scott-Kemball, Leifur Eiricksson, photograph, SA, ship, South Australia, The Mail, viking, vikings

The Loving Cup

This work by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, arenowned nineteenth-century painter and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, depicts a young woman in a voluminous medieval-looking gown raising a golden cup decorated with a heart shaped design to her lips.…

Tags: art, Arthurian, Arthurian romance, chivalry, cup, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Gouache, ivy, knight, legend, medieval clothing, nostalgia, Pre-Raphaelite, replica, romance, SA, South Australia, Victorian, watercolour

Camelot Castle, in the Adelaide Hills

An image of 'Camelot Castle’ in the Adelaide Hills. The building has functioned as a hotel and wedding venue since 1972 and is described on their website as a ‘medieval themed complex’, and ‘a medieval Castle in…

Tags: accommodation, Adelaide Hills, arcading, arches, Arthur, Arthurian, battlements, Camelot, castellation, castle, chapel, crenellation, hotel, hotels, motel, recreation, restaurant, SA, South Australia, tourism, towers, wedding, weddings

Camelot Castle, A Motel and Restaurant in the Adelaide Hills

An image of 'Camelot Castle’ in the Adelaide Hills. The building has functioned as a hotel and wedding venue since 1972 and is described on their website as a ‘medieval themed complex’, and ‘a medieval Castle in the …

Tags: accommodation, Adelaide Hills, arcading, arches, Arthur, Arthurian, battlements, Camelot, castellation, castle, chapel, crenellation, hotel, hotels, motel, recreation, restaurant, SA, South Australia, tourism, towers, wedding, weddings

Camelot Castle Sign

‘Camelot Castle’ in the Adelaide Hills. The building has functioned as a hotel and wedding venue since 1972 and is described on their website as a ‘medieval themed complex’, and ‘a medieval Castle in the heart of…

Tags: accommodation, Adelaide Hills, arcading, arches, Arthur, Arthurian, battlements, Camelot, castellation, castle, chapel, crenellation, hotel, hotels, motel, recreation, restaurant, SA, South Australia, tourism, towers, wedding, weddings

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