Dublin Core
Title
Viking Valour
Subject
Beserker, fiction, Samuel Hirsdon, Norseman, pagan, Perth, short story, Sunday Times, Viking, WA, Western Australia
Description
A story by Samuel Hirsdon in the ‘3 Short Stories for Week-End Reading’ section of the Perth newspaper the Sunday Times on October 29, 1939. The story is about a group of Norsemen at sea (led by the curiously named Sir Ranulf, which does not sound particularly Norse) who accidently land in North America. The lone woman in the group is kidnapped by native ‘savages’ and later rescued by a mysterious Viking Beserker named Brand after he kills a number of her captors with his bare hands. Beserkers are found in Old Norse poetry and sagas and appear to have been people who were particularly ferocious fighters and wore bear skins into battle.
Creator
Hirsdon, Samuel
Source
National Library of Australia
Publisher
The Sunday Times
Date
29 October 1939
Rights
The Sunday Times; National Library of Australia
Format
Newspaper Article; PDF
Language
English
Document Item Type Metadata
Original Format
PDF; Newspaper Article