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The Viking’s Adventure
An anonymous short story on page 47 of the Brisbane newspaper The Queenslander in the ‘Children’s Playground’ section on 24 May, 1934. ‘The Viking’s Adventure’ is about a school trip to the beach and the…
Tags: Brisbane, Children’s literature, fiction, Qld, Queensland, ship, The Queenslander, viking, vikings
Win or Kill
This article from the Sunday Times in 1907 comments on what the author views as the un-gentlemanly state of sporting ethic in the early twentieth century. It likens the use of padding and helmets in sports such as cricket, baseball and football to…
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
The Viking Breed
An article on page 4 of The Brisbane Courier newspaper on April 6, 1909. The article reports on an official welcome in Sydney Town Hall for returned Antarctic explorer Professor (Sir) Edgeworth David. In recounting the achievements of the expedition…
Viking Memories
A review of the film The Viking on page 14 of the Adelaide newspaper ‘The Advertiser’ on October 17, 1929. The film was about Lief Eriksson, or Leif the Lucky, the leader of possibly the first group of Europeans to reach North America.…
Tags: Adelaide, cinema, dragon, dragon ships, film, films, Lief Eriksson, movie, movies, Norseman, Norway, SA, saga, ship, ships, South Australia, The Advertiser, viking, vikings
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
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…
Y.M.C.A. Viking Club
A newspaper article on page 2 of the Broken Hill newspaper Barrier Miner on 14 November, 1928. The article reports on the inaugural meeting of the Viking Club in Broken Hill. Held in the local Y.M.C.A., the meeting featured a lecture sex education…