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Camelot Cottage, Launceston, Tasmania
Alice’s Cottages offer romantic B&B accommodation in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. One of the cottages is called ‘Camelot Cottage’ (named after the castle and court of KingArthur), and it features ‘Merlin’s…
Modern Viking
A short article with photograph on page 22 of the Hobart newspaper ‘The Mercury’ on September 5, 1953. The article reports the recent activities of the World War Two Norwegian resistance hero Lief Larsen. The article describes Larsen as…
Tags: Hobart, Lief Larsen, naval forces, navy, Norway, Norwegian, Second World War, Tas, Tasmania, The Mercury, viking, vikings, war, wars, World War, World War II, WWII
Viking Galley Off UK
A newspaper article on the front page of the Launceston newspaper Examiner on 26 July, 1949. The article reports on the voyage of the replica galley ‘Hugin’ from Denmark on its journey to Broadstairs in Kent, England. The Hugin had a…
Tags: Anglo-Saxon, anniversary, Denmark, England, Examiner, galley, Hugin, Kent, Launceston, recreation, replica, spears, swords, Tas, Tasmania, viking, vikings
A Viking Funeral Ship
An article on page 2 of the Launceston newspaper the Examiner on September 2, 1908. The anonymous public interest article reports on the recent excavation of the Oseberg ship in Norway. The article describes the ninth-century burial ship, found under…
Tags: Examiner, funeral, grave goods, grave robbers, Launceston, Norse, Norway, Oseberg, ship, Tas, Tasmania, viking
Viking Cup Final
A newspaper article on page 11 of the Launceston newspaper Examiner on 1 July, 1948. The article gives the results of the finals of the local Y.M.C.A. basketball competition in which teams played for the Viking Cup. The connection between Vikings and…
Tags: Basketball, Examiner, Launceston, Tas, Tasmania, viking, Y.M.C.A.
“Robin Hood†(pantomime)
This 1924 article in the Hobart based newspaper The Mercury advertises two performances of the pantomine 'Robin Hood' at the Bijou Theatre. The performances were held 'by special request' following an earlier successful season. The pantomine is…
Tags: Bijou Theatre, Hobart, newspaper, outlaw, pantomime, performance, Robin Hood, Tas, Tasmania., The Mercury, theatre
‘Living by the sword’
The anonymous online article ‘Living by the sword’ appears in volume 4 of the Leatherwood Online – Tasmania’s Journal of Discovery website and was posted in June/July 2007. It is about professional swordsman Stephen Hand of…
Ascomanni Medieval Re-enactment Society
Ascomanni Medieval Re-enactment Society is a living history group based in the Tasmanian city of Launceston. The group focus on Anglo-Saxons, Normans, and Vikings during the later Viking Age, specifically the period 966-1066 ending with the Norwegian…