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Viking Statue at Miss Maud's
An image of the giant Viking head statue located outside Miss Maud's Swedish restaurant and bakehouse on Fitzgerald Street in Perth, WA.
The figure has a long, bushy beard and is wearing a horned helmet. It appears to be made of limestone.
The figure has a long, bushy beard and is wearing a horned helmet. It appears to be made of limestone.
Birka Traders
Birka Traders was the online store created by Peter Beatson to sell his medieval metalwork. The collection included mainly jewellery and personal items such as belt buckles and strap ends, and focussed on the early medieval period, particularly the…
Tags: archaeology, armaments, Birka, jewellery, market, merchant, metalwork, New South Wales, NSW, Peter Beatson, re-enactment, retail, Sweden, Sydney, trading centre, viking, Viking Age
Viking Ship Greets King
An article in the ‘Townsville Daily Bulletin’ newspaper in Queensland on June 18, 1949. The article is about a replica Viking ship built by a Swedish vegetarian sports and youth movement that was based on an original from the British…
Tags: boat, British Museum, King Gustaf, Qld, Queensland, replica, ship, ships, sports, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish, Townsville, Townsville Daily Bulletin, vegetarian, vegetarianism, viking, vikings, youth, youth movement
Frozen Viking Story
An article on page 8 of the Melbourne newspaper The Argus on September 9, 1922. The article corrects a previous article in The Argus that reported, based on accounts in American newspapers, that a Viking warrior had been found frozen in an iceberg…
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…