Frithcast: Recent Episodes
gythainjeans
Inclusive Heathen podcast containing a healthy dose of geekery, a fair bit of cake and a hint of queer, by Suzanne Martin, the Gytha in Jeans, and a Coffee-Powered Druid called Kate Coldwind.
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Episode 170.5 The Goodest Boy
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Dies Nefasti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasti
Cerberus: https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/Cerberus/cerberus.html
Psychopomp: https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110810105654546
Fenris Rangers (Star Trek: Picard): https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Fenris_Rangers
Doctor Who, 'The Curse of Fenric': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_of_Fenric
Ray Stevenson: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0829032/
Hacker the Dog (BBC children's TV puppet presenter): https://youtu.be/nNoFzMljP0U
Where to find us online
Episode 170 Bluetooth's Lost Fortress
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Bluetooth communication protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth
Ryan Reynolds in Blade Trinity: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359013/
Ubuntu - African philosophy of Human interconnectedness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy
Howl's Moving Castle: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347149/
The Goon Show - Tales of Old Dartmoor: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jn76
Pomerania - historical region in Poland and extending into Germany: https://www.britannica.com/place/Pomerania
King Arthur (movie 2004): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349683/
Harris matrix (archaeological tool): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_matrix
The High Table (John Wick franchise - article contains spoilers): https://screenrant.com/john-wick-high-table-elder-explained/
Valar Morghulis (Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire): https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Valar_morghulis
SOLITUDE! The Fortress of SOLITUDE! How could we have missed that one?
Camelodunum (modern-day Colchester, UK): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camulodunum
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/05/archaeologist-suggests-location-of-legendary-viking-settlement-of-jomsborg/147482
Where to find us online
Episode 169 Dis 'ere Weaving Thing
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Hacker can't guess the word: https://youtu.be/nNoFzMljP0U?si=dMAEycsOqGD9M9i-&t=26
Warp vs Weft: Warp is the long thread that runs from the beginning to the end of the piece. Weft is the 'shuttle' thread that goes from side to side. Prolly just think of a starship going straight forward under warp power rather than bouncing left and right?
Macrame is not, in fact, basket weaving. The art of basket weaving is called "basket weaving" - or, sometimes, "basketry".
Turns out you can use wool for tablet weaving, for me it's always gone sproing, generally at the most difficult point to try and mend. So, you know. Maybe get some practice in first.
https://www.shelaghlewins.com/tablet_weaving/Dark_Age_tablet_weaving.pdf
https://wiki.vikingsonline.org.uk/Weaving_your_first_band
Birka band B22: http://www.tabletweavingintheoryandpractice.co.uk/2021/06/b22.html
Oseberg roses: http://www.tabletweavingintheoryandpractice.co.uk/2019/08/oseburg-roses.html
Oseberg: http://www.tabletweavingintheoryandpractice.co.uk/2019/08/very-long-ship.html
Begining weaving: http://ladyelewys.carpevinumpdx.com/2020/08/27/tablet-weaving-for-the-absolute-beginner-birka-6/
Where to find us online
Episode 168 Random Reel VII – The Frith Awakens...
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Seven. Just wanted to pause there for a moment and take that in. Seven Years. Of Frithcast – inclusive heathen, geek, goofy, queer goodness. It’s an acquired taste. It’s also Random Reel time!
Whether you’ve been hanging around the virtual campfire since the murky but enthusiastic beginning, or are just picking your way through episodes which look interesting, you’re very welcome with us. The campfire has grown over the years, so you’re welcome to come say hello to Earl the Owl, and the hedgehog guard. Sit around the virtual campfire, take a walk to the shifty tree for art and creative stuffs, or even head out to the submarine bay down there a ways.
Kate and I wanted to say a big thank you and big loves to all you lovely listeners, camp fire custodians and trash panda darlings around the world, you’re the reason that we’ve kept making episodes all this time, and the reason that we now have a Discord home for Frithcast. Come and drop in, kettle’s always on, and every now and again there’s randomness.
If you’ve not heard a random reel before, it’s the silliest bits that we cut but couldn’t bear to throw away. So we stuck them all together for your listening pleasure in the way of all macaroni pictures made with more glue and enthusiasm than skill. Here’s your random reel for this year, as a thank you from us to you. We hope to see you around the virtual campfire soon.
Suzanne and Kate
Flames on the Side of my Face
Hedgehogs and Blankets
Start again Start again
Three Quarks for Straightity
A Rather Uncompromising Note
A Strong Underwater Tradition
Randoms
Fiking Pights in Bars
Flappy Toppy
Joshua, a disciple of Shodan, sneaks into space for a Wopr with Zur
Kate is Laughing so Hard
Kate Needs Z’s
Looking Farcical
Matching Socks
Mr Valdi Oh
Not Enough Coffee
Supernova Minerals
The Sinister Dinosaurs Read the Books (in Greek)
Wibbly Wobbly Slidey Widey Accents
You Can’t Put Coffee on Chicken
Episode 167 Sole Survivor
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Ceefax (UK Teletext Service): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax
Bourbon biscuits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_biscuit
Sybok, brother of Spock: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sybok
Michael Burnham, sister of Spock: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Burnham
Ragnarok (Netflix series): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9251798/
Star Trek: The Next Generation - 'Cause and Effect': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162905/
Where to find us online
Episode 166 The Fjord Files, Norse Noir
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Cadfael series, by Ellis Peters: https://www.goodreads.com/series/42167-chronicles-of-brother-cadfael
Marcus Didius Falco series, by Lindsey Davis: https://www.goodreads.com/series/42173-marcus-didius-falco
A Fatal Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, by Emma Southon: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54776211-a-fatal-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-forum
'Retaliate' - Latin 'talio' - to exact payment in kind, whence 'Lex Talionis', the law of equal retribution
Lex Talionis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_for_an_eye
'Venefica' - the Roman word for 'witch/sorceress' and also the word for 'poisoner'
'The Mentalist' (US TV series): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196946/
Where to find us online
Episode 165: Boats and Foes
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
"Sailed round the Isle of Wight" - "...sailed round and round the Isle of Wight till everyone gets dizzy, then set for home" - Captain Redbeard Rum; Blackadder II, episode "Potato"
Number Six - Battlestar Galactica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Six_(Battlestar_Galactica)
Gaius Baltar - Battlestar Galactica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Baltar
S'mores, they're called. The BBC has a take on them but can't get Graham Crackers, apparently: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/smores_30560
The funniest part is that I write these references as I listen through the track, but when you read them they don't have time tags or anything so it must look baffling if you read them before you listen. Or even afterwards, I guess.
"Planet Nine" (even though we already have more than that PLUTO IS A PLANET DAMMIT (JANET): https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-of-a-real-ninth-planet/
"Dr X will build a creature" - Movie 'Doctor X' (1932), sure, but really the song 'Science Fiction Double Feature' from 'The Rocky Horror Show': https://rockyhorror.co.uk/
PLUTO IS A PLANET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAU_definition_of_planet
Mary Rose (Tudor warship with leaky gun ports): https://maryrose.org/
The other ship Kate was thinking of wasn't in fact either French or Spanish - it was the Swedish 'Vasa', which suffered the same failure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)
'Context' (archaeological term): https://www.thoughtco.com/context-in-archaeology-167155
"GPS for teeth" - archeological use of strontium traces in dental remains: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-teeth-reveal-our-roots-180969495/
The Amesbury (not Avebury, though there's but 30 km in it) Archer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amesbury_Archer
The Dyatlov Pass Incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident
The Great Heathen Army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Heathen_Army
Bj.581, the grave apparently of a high-status warrior, found to have XX ('female') chromosomes: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/viking-warrior-women-reassessing-birka-chamber-grave-bj581/7CC691F69FAE51DDE905D27E049FADCD
Tafl ('table') games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games
And a couple of articles to start you off: https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/estonia-salme-ship-burials/
https://thevikingherald.com/article/what-do-viking-ships-buried-in-estonia-tell-us-about-the-start-of-the-viking-age/298
Where to find us online
Episode 164 Er Det Dag, Ragnarok?
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Variant on "It's the Muppet Show" - Waiting4Codot (via Tumblr): https://filkyeahfilk.com/2020/01/22/its-the-muppet-show-waiting4codot/
CinemaSins ("Everything Wrong With...") - a YouTube channel devoted to (often affectionately) picking holes in movies: https://www.youtube.com/@CinemaSins
At around 12 minutes in, it sounds for all the world as though I (Kate) say that some characters are "[...] not entirely Human, they're rich people". I did not actually say that. I said, "Not entirely Human: the rich people", to clarify who I was talking about. Rich people are, contrary to possible appearances and behaviours, Human too. Just not these ones in this thing we're talking about. 'Kay? 'Kay.
Daigo Fukuryū Maru ("Lucky Dragon Five"), following the US's 'Castle Bravo' test detonation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigo_Fukuryū_Maru
Where to find us online
Episode 163 – Pretty Political
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Mini (car): BMW own the brand 'Mini', which manufactures the Mini car line in the UK - https://www.mini.com/
Battlefield 1 (video game): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_1
Film stars: I mean why wouldn't Kate have thought of Keanu Reeves, honestly?
Don't feed Earl after midnight: https://medium.com/@Naturalish/gremlins-three-rules-an-evolutionary-analysis-de4c4fae2785 (post not by us)
Police Pagan Association: https://policepaganassociation.org
Stonehenge: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/
Asatru Folk Assembly: https://www.heathensagainst.org (yeah, like we were gonna)
Photos of the tree at Sycamore Gap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-66958697
Where to find us online
Episode 162 The Saga of the Sword
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Cawdor - a village in Scotland, referenced in 'Macbeth', by William Shakespeare
The Lady Door - main character, 'Neverwhere', by Neil Gaiman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwhere
Hamlet's Dilemma (the dead king was Claudius): https://novelsummary.com/hamlets-moral-dilemma/
Laertes WAS actually in Greek mythology as well so there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laertes
Hrolf's Saga: https://web.archive.org/web/20150222112412/http://www.oe.eclipse.co.uk/nom/Hrolf%2520Kraki.htm
Kormak's Saga: https://www.sagadb.org/kormaks_saga.en
Laxdaelasaga: https://sagadb.org/laxdaela_saga.en
"Don't go THAT way!" - from 'Labyrinth': https://youtu.be/PGmK15IM_XE? si=EcfLDLx_y1hYdgyO&t=184
Psalter - a small handbook containing the Biblical Book of Psalms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalter
Where to find us online
Episode 161: Slap the Other Cheek
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Fury (Fiorina) 161: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_3
Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/characters/nm0000234
Njal's Saga: https://sagadb.org/brennu-njals_saga.en
Egil's Saga: https://sagadb.org/egils_saga.en
Barbie Saga (2023 movie 'Barbie'): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517268/
Matthew 18:21-35 - Jesus on Forgiveness: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+18%3A21-35&version=NASB
Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth_Vader
The Jedi: https://www.starwars.com/databank/jedi-order/
Dracula (book by Bram Stoker): https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dracula-novel
An academic reference to start you off:
Thorgillsdottir, B The Language of Feeling in Njáls saga and Egils saga: Construction of an Emotional Lexis Scripta Islandica 71: 9–50. http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1513277/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Where to find us online
Episode 160 Rune Spotlight: Laguz
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Tripods TV series: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086818/
River Kings by Car Jarman: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/River-Kings/Cat-Jarman/9781639365425
Bulach Fibula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BClach_fibula
Where to find us online
Episode 159: I Feel the Need, the Need for Mead
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
501st Legion (formerly the 501st Clone Battalion): https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/501st_Legion
Learning about beer: https://youtu.be/CONa4b9errw
"WHINDER shoppin', as it were" - Hacker the Dog, CBBC: https://youtu.be/nNoFzMljP0U
London stolen by bats - setting for 'Fallen London' by Failbetter Games: https://www.failbettergames.com/games/fallen-london
Marea (We've Lost Dancing) - song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marea_(We%27ve_Lost_Dancing)
Where to find us online
Episode 158 Very Happy About Postholes
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
The theme from Raiders of the Lost Ark, by John Williams (I mean come on, you know it anyway, but we're going to miss a chance to link to it? Nah): https://youtu.be/ojZ0k9ymdU0?t=55
And the theme from Jurassic Park, also John Williams and I seem to have something in my eye: https://youtu.be/lDlU08RU7Tk
The Goon Show - 'The Scarlet Capsule' (BBC, 1959 - not, in fact, 1955, but not far off): https://youtu.be/PPJss90E9CA
Our favourite Leo the Cat ("NumNum Cat") remix: https://youtu.be/_C1FZ4HtzGY And an explanation of same: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/numnum-cat
Two Steps From Hell: https://www.twostepsfromhell.com
'Nine Paces From Hel: Time and Motion in Old Norse Ritual Performance'; Neil Price (2014) [This is a downloadable PDF file]: https://vikingsresources.weebly.com/uploads/4/8/3/6/48362215/burial_ritual_and_performance.pdf
Excavation data and reports:
https://snd.gu.se/en/catalogue/dataset/snd2331-1
Lilla Ullevi amulets and arm rings: http://viking.archeurope.info/index.php?page=some-of-the-65-amulet-rings-excavated-at-lilla-ullevi
Report on the excavation: http://viking.archeurope.info/index.php?page=lilla-ullevi
Where to find us online
Episode 157: A Visit to the Thunder Hall
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
The Sidh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY8u5Ro00dg Nac Mac Feegle - from Terry Pratchett's Discworld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nac_Mac_Feegle We didn't find any meaningful links about acorn carvings as yet, but Kate - me, I - am/is sure there was something. We'll just have to keep on looking, like them two agents in those old UK TV adverts that parodied The X-Files.
Where to find us online
Episode 156 - The Year of Unn
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Unn the Deep-Minded, also known as Aud
Year of Aun: https://nordicanimism.com/aun-2023
You can find Heathen Women United here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/258460597923877
The storytelling and oathtaking project: https://www.ignisursa.com/worldrenewal8
The Year of Unn jewellery https://www.landscapejewellery.com/shop/year-of-unn
Where to find us online
Episode 155 Landspirits and Again
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Book jokes! Come on! Book jokes! Silly author names! You KNOW the ones. This is like when I was at work one time and I used some word or other and one of my colleagues told me it wasn't a real word and acted like he'd never heard it before and then everyone else joined in deadpan and I actually started believing them. Anyway these DO exist so I'm RIGHT. Here are some examples:
'Walking to School' by Misty Bus
'Over the Mountaintop' by Hugo First
'Why Should I Walk?' by Iona Carr
and very famously
'Bubbles in the Bath' by Ivor Windybottom
(These taken from https://www.boyscouttrail.com/content/joke/books_never_written-850.asp - caution: they're old jokes are some have dated poorly.)
'Life After People': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433058/
'The Bad Guy' was Rufus Sewell playing the oleaginous Count Adhemar in "A Knight's Tale" (2001).
And 'the Prince', credited as 'Colville', was played by James Purefoy, who also played Marcus Antonius - all right, 'Mark Antony', if you insist - in HBO's "Rome".
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Frithcast Episode 154: Altared Reality
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
‘Goose’ Lauren and Hacker: https://youtu.be/nNoFzMljP0U
Kehaar - seagull from Watership Down
'Style or Substance': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGgP2ewrxl8 From Too Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
No Edge – John and Hank Green: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0o6hQLcSRc
Gutamaya Eagle ('Imperial Eagle') from Elite Dangerous: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Imperial_Eagle
Gytha In Jeans blog: https://gythainjeans.home.blog/
UK Seller of devotional plaques, Runecast Copper: https://runecastcopper.com/collections/plaques/products/norse-gods-heathen-god-plaque-portable-credit-card-size-altar-in-copper-odin-thor-freyr-freyja-skadi-ran-hel-tyr-heimdalr-loki
UK seller of devotional statues, Samantha Chilton: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SJChilton
USA seller of pocket altars: https://awakenthenorth.org/product/pocketaltar/
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Episode 153 – Storytime: The Showdown at Goodyard
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Saloon ambiences assembled via https://www.ambient-mixer.com.
Incidental music: 'Spirit Riders' and 'Riding Into The Sun', both by Telecasted, via YouTube Audio Library.
'Sin bell' by CinemaSins (https://www.youtube.com/@CinemaSins).
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Episode 152 – Rune Spotlight Berkana
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
The Whole Song: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1
Milieu - the physical or social setting in which something occurs: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/milieu
The Elder Futhark: https://thevikingherald.com/article/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-elder-futhark-the-oldest-form-of-runic-alphabets/294
The Younger Futhark: https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/professions/education/viking-age-people/runes
The Rune Poems: https://www.ragweedforge.com/poems.html
The NATO Phonetic Alphabet, used for clarity in audio transmissions: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_136216.htm
International Phonetic Alphabet - Charts Index Page: https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/ipa-chart
International Phonetic Alphabet - 2018 Chart: https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/IPAcharts/inter_chart_2018/IPA_2018.html
Boustrophedon (back-and-forth) writing system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
The Cowboy Havamal (Jackson Crawford): https://jacksonwcrawford.com/the-cowboy-havamal/
The Yorkshire Av'mal (Dan Coultas): https://thevikingdragon.com/products/yorkshire-avmal-book-by-dan-coultas
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Series 6, Episode 4 - 'Relics': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708764/
Parkinson's bottle designed collaboratively by TikTok users: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-monday-edition-1.5868846/how-tiktok-users-designed-a-better-pill-bottle-for-people-with-parkinson-s
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Episode 151 You’re Only Valid If...
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Bugs Bunny, perpetually not turning left at Albuquerque: https://youtu.be/e8TUwHTfOOU
Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote_and_the_Road_Runner
Awaken The North (go see them, join up, they're grand): https://awakenthenorth.org
Pax Deorum - the 'Peace of the Gods': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion#pax_deorum
Flamingos - Roman priests or 'flamines': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamen
Cat Rector, author: https://www.catrector.com/
Monkeysphere (more formally called "Dunbar's Number"): https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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Episode 150: It Was Just supposed to be Plastic Helmets
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
"Hell, Bermuda Triangle, Wagner - Excitement?" - CinemaSins running gag: https://www.reddit.com/r/CinemaSins/comments/q7k4vw/someone_explain_the_excitementsin/ "...flavoured with citrus!" - Drag queen BenDeLaCreme appearing as Dame Maggie Smith in the 'Snatch Game' section of 'RuPaul's Drag Race', season 6 "But I, being poor, have only my dreams..." - 'He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven', by WB Yeats: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/he-wishes-cloths-heaven/ Sean Bean and Christian Bale in 'Equilibrium' (2002) [Content Warning: Poetry and Gun Violence]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJf9Pf9rjO4 What3Words location for "Damp With Sleet": https://w3w.co/damp.with.sleet Awaken the North: https://awakenthenorth.org/ 10 Downing Street What3Words address - "Input Caring Brain" (not "insert"): https://w3w.co/input.caring.brain Danelaw: https://www.britannica.com/place/Danelaw Teutoburg Forest, AD9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest Cate Blanchett as Hela; 'Thor: Ragnarok' (2017): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3501632/mediaviewer/rm4123809792? ft0=name&fv0=nm0000949&ft1=image_type&fv1=still_frame&ref_=tt_ch Letters of Marque (sometimes "...and Reprisal"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque Patents of Nobility - the documents certifying a lord's right of title (an early plot point in 'A Knight's Tale' (2001): https://youtu.be/Hwl-RX5Pmxo
Carl Emil Doepler’s costume designs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/54525871@N05/sets/72157624969947145/
Frank, R ‘The Invention of the Viking Horned Helmet’ https://www.scribd.com/doc/51267328/Frank-Invention-of-Horned-Helmet#
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Episode 149 Modern Goddin’
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
"They like me better when I'm sedated" - 'Little Fix' by Sprints: https://youtu.be/v2u3Yk0b_M0 'Dangerous Woman'; Ariana Grande: https://youtu.be/9WbCfHutDSE 'The Adventure Game' (BBC TV show): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_Game 'The Crystal Maze' (Channel 4 TV show): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Maze The car chase (best bit of the movie, honestly - apart from Mark Strong, obvs) - Kingsman: The Golden Circle: https://youtu.be/JuRQ2yko43Q We discuss UK media coverage of Druid police officers. The most egregious example is of course from the Daily Mail - however it's a Frithcast policy never to link to that noxious rag. 'Team Viking', by James Rowland: https://rowlandjames.bandcamp.com/album/1-team-viking-songs-of-friendship-part-one 'The Vikings' (1958): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052365/ Ferrero Rocher embassy ad (1990s): https://youtu.be/aHjiEKaZt1k Luke Ranieri (polýMATHY): https://www.youtube.com/@PolymathyLuke Metatron - "Lōrīca segmentāta legiōnāriī Rōmānī": https://youtu.be/lJq_l6Ihs2c (NOTE: While this video relates to the reconstruction of Latin pronunciation and is interesting in that regard, we advise caution around this creator. He is subject to some discussion over a possible rightward political lean, and while this may or may not be warranted, we at the Virtual Clearing have not undertaken any review of his other videos and content to assess that leaning or its extent. We have no reason to question his qualification as a linguist and it is for this that we link this video - however we make no judgements on his political compatibility, or lack thereof, with our values.)James 2:14-26 (New American Standard Bible): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/? search=James%202%3A14-26&version=NASB
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Episode 148: Burials with Rocks in
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
"Imitate the action of the tiger" - Shakespeare; 'Henry V': https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/546127-in-peace-there-s-nothing-so-becomes-a-man-as-modest Frankie Howerd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Howerd Dark Angel: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204993/ Gerrae: Latin term referring to small branches and twigs - carries connotation of trivia and thereby of "nonsense"."A frog in my bidet" - 'Red Dwarf': https://quotegeek.com/television-quotes/red-dwarf/18/ Roc/Rokh (mythic bird): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roc_(mythology) The Gerdrup Grave: http://viking.archeurope.com/religion/pagan-religion/gerdrup-grave/ Mitochondria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion And 'Mitochondrial Eve', the first matrilineal ancestor common to all living humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve "It's just a book. No harm ever came from reading a book." - 'The Mummy' (1999): https://youtu.be/6J-PhFYNbOU Bj 581: https://gythainjeans.podbean.com/e/frithcast-episode-55-bj581-the-grave-formerly-known-as-male/ The Mummy (1999)/The Mummy Returns (Mummy 2): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120616/ | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209163/ Cyberpunk 2077 (2020 video game): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2077 Ofrenda - a tradition for Día de los Muertos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofrenda
If you want to go all serious and academic like, here’s a good place to start:
Ole Thirup Kastholm and Ashot Margaryan ‘Reconstructing the Gerdrup Grave – the story of an unusual Viking Age double grave in context and in the light of new analysis’ In Danish Journal of Archaeology 2021 Vol 10 pp10-20.
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Episode 147: God Spotlight Freyr: Cornucopia Boy of Decorum
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic Sinister ducks - 'March of the Sinister Ducks' by Alan Moore: https://youtu.be/QGL8Fx6SOjg Carry on Cleo - dreadful yet brilliant: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057918/ Blancmange (Kate's not a fan, for the record): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancmange Tiddly-Pom (Winnie the Pooh): https://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/8718.html The Little Dragon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler 'The Lion Cub of Cintra' - Princess Cirilla Riannon; 'The Witcher': https://www.audible.com/blog/article-the-witcher-ciri Caligula (Roman Emperor): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula ('Caligae' were the leather boots Roman soldiers wore)Kate struggles to remember the name of Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Empire, called 'Augustulus' as a diminutive (he became Emperor at around 10 years old): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_Augustulus 47 (Star Trek): https://www.grunge.com/646980/why-the-number-47-is-so-important-in-star-trek-the-next-generation/ The Hedge - White Wolf games' concept of the boundary between Reality and Faerie/Arcadia: https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Hedge (Note: Fandom.com is very heavy on the adverts)Maker hooks - in 'Dune', the hand-held grapples used by the desert-dwelling Fremen to climb and the control the great sandworms of Arrakis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandworm_(Dune) 'Scratatoskr' - how Kate can't help seeing Ratatoskr, sorry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrat Littoral - yes, this was the right word. Meaning 'relating to or situated on the shore of the sea or a lake' (Oxford Dictionary). Benthic - 'The term benthic refers to anything associated with or occurring on the bottom of a body of water' (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)The Royal Court of Sweden: https://www.kungahuset.se/english/the-monarchy-of-sweden Norse curse-pole - the Nithing Pole or Nidstang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nithing_pole Milk Tray advertising campaign - "All because the lady loves..." - definitely not James Bond though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_Tray Bat'leth - curved Klingon sword (originally "batlh'etlh"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat%27leth Zapp Brannigan and his long-suffering aide Kif Kroker - characters in 'Futurama': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149460/
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Episode 146 Kate playing Jaskier playing Geralt goes to Vanaheim
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Jaskier and Geralt - The Witcher TV series (Jaskier known as Dandelion in books and games): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5180504/ Jagulars - very good droppers. From Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne: https://twitter.com/a_amilne/status/1183267647003209729 (not his actual Twitter account) Drop Bear - Australian cryptozoological hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear Bank bear: a mysteryBlake's 7 (UK TV sci-fi show) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7 Voluspa quote about Nine Worlds: https://www.voluspa.org/voluspa1-5.htm Mornington Crescent (game): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game) British Museum Tube station: http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/British_Museum_station.html Fallen London (Welcome, Delicious Friends): https://www.fallenlondon.com Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14497.Neverwhere Hellgate London: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HellgateLondon Sodom and Gomorrah: https://www.britannica.com/place/Sodom-and-Gomorrah Gamora from the MCU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamora_(Marvel_Cinematic_Universe) DAMP.WITH.SLEET IS IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE: https://w3w.co/damp.with.sleet Everquest - Dark Elf/Innoruuk 'Norse Mythology for Smart People' on Vanaheim, innangard and utangard: https://norse-mythology.org/cosmology/the-nine-worlds/vanaheim/ Lenny Henry - Cat Flaps - "Lenny Live and Unleashed" (OLD recording!): https://youtu.be/IAZ_39f1p-0?t=2826 'Muckle' - Scots word meaning 'large': https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/muckle Doilies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doily Proserpina and Pluto/Dis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proserpina#Myths "Passport to Magonia"; Jacques Vallee (1969): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406344.Passport_to_Magonia "It depends on who's looking" - Indrid Cold to John Klein; "The Mothman Prophecies" (2002): https://youtu.be/5qrp3P7wWds The Battle of Camlann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Camlann "For the Fairest" - the Apple of Discordia (Eris) in the Greek myth "The Judgement of Paris": https://www.greeklegendsandmyths.com/judgement-of-paris.html
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Episode 145: A Terribly Serious Study of Egil’s Saga
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Egil's Bones" - article on Paget's Disease (Byock 1995): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/egils-bones/ [Paywalled (and very poorly OCR scanned) ]
"Palaeopathology by proxy: The case of Egil's bones" (Weinstein 2009; Journal of Archaeological Science): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43494397_Palaeopathology_by_proxy_The_case_of_Egil%27s_bones [Abstract freely available, full article paywalled]
Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, renowned Egyptologist, mentioned unflatteringly in 'Stargate' (1994): https://youtu.be/WskWZfFpWNI
"Do Your Own Research" - aka Argumentum ad YouTube: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Do_your_own_research
Flat Earth conspiracy theories: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
Fallen London: https://www.fallenlondon.com/login
Awaken the North: https://awakenthenorth.org/
"Two heated towel rails" - Lenny Henry, "Lenny Live and Unleashed" (1989): https://youtu.be/IAZ_39f1p-0?t=1374
Well of COURSE we were going to link it. Great song, nonsense lyrics. Good luck getting rid of the earworm. "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher", from Netflix's 'The Witcher': https://youtu.be/6Y3rmXkIarQ
Spike ('Buffy the Vampire Slayer'): https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Spike
'Forrest Gump' (1994): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern
Mastodon (social network): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_under_Elon_Musk
Greta Thunberg burns far-right influencer Andrew Tate at his own request: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/31/greta-thunberg-andrew-tate-tweet
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Episode 144 Random Reel VI: Return of the Reel
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Six years. Siiiiiix Yeeeears. And you know what that means by now. It’s Random Reel time!Whether you’ve been around the virtual campfire for the whole six years, listened through the back catalogue, or are just picking your way through, you’re very welcome with us. The campfire has grown over the years, so you’re welcome to come say hello to Earl the Owl, and the hedgehog guard. Sit around the virtual campfire, take a walk to the shifty tree for art and creative stuffs, or even head out to the submarine bay down there a ways.
Kate and I wanted to say a big thank you and big loves to all you lovely listeners around the world, you’re the reason that we’ve kept making episodes all this time, and the reason that we now have a Discord home for Frithcast. Come and drop in, kettle’s always on, and occasionally there’s randomness. If you’ve not heard a random reel before, it’s the silliest bits that we cut but couldn’t bear to throw away. So we stuck them all together for your listening pleasure in the way of all macaroni pictures made with more glue and enthusiasm than skill. Here’s your random reel for this year, from us to you. We hope to see you around the virtual campfire soon.
Suzanne and Kate
The Pineapple who Ducks for a LivingAestheticsLa la laLyrical MusingsPodbeanRequiem for an OtterRubber BushingsThe Fardles of Quarto 1Theatre Lemons
With an extra helping of bits and scraps:A Fly and a ChequebookDankmirian Princesses on DrugsLots of Stuff about Star WarsQuantum Police LogsMilton Keynes SquirrelsOn Oh Being a NumberSo Much for ChessThe Kitten Drinking out of a Spoon EarwormThermos Flasks, Biscuit Tins and Greek ParadoxesThose Sat on the Quantum Log
Episode 143: Rune Spotlight Peorth: Caffeine is the fifth dimension
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Kerbal Space Program: https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/
Jebediah Kerman: https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Jebediah_Kerman
Futret! D'ye nae ken fit a futret is?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzS3AdzZ0Nw
Mustelids (otters are included): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustelidae (And also yes, mice are murids, along with rats and voles.)
Peorth or Perthro rune: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peor%C3%B0
Blazon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazon
Johnny Storm, the Human Torch: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Jonathan_Storm_(Earth-616)
Blaze on; blaze off - "Wax on; wax off" - The Karate Kid (1984): https://youtu.be/-P11Bcpyw4g
"You must watch these points." An intermittently running joke in 'The Goon Show': https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Radio/TheGoonShow (Scroll down to list of tropes and look for 'Lemony Narrator' for an example.)
Underpants Gnomes (South Park): https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Underpants_Gnomes
Daniel Jackson nudges at Budge - "I don't know why they keep reprinting his books" - Stargate (1994): https://youtu.be/WskWZfFpWNI (Though Daniel does suggest the symbols "[may be] cuneiform" - and I'm no linguist, but no, that is NOT what cuneiform looks like, Daniel...)
"Dree your weird/wyrd", Scottish phrase: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dree_one%27s_weird
"Life is a storm" - The Count of Monte Cristo (it was Rome) - https://youtu.be/9dXxTAu2RCM
Superdeterminism: https://bigthink.com/hard-science/superdeterminism-free-will/
"Wibbly Wobbly Timey-Wimey Stuff"; from Doctor Who - 'Blink': https://youtu.be/LakwV3P3qII
"It never occurred to me to think of space as the thing that was moving." - Scotty, Star Trek (2009): https://youtu.be/jxzYTDX8bIg
How to find us online
Episode 142 – Olaf’s Not Big Enough To Be A Chieftain: The Site At Lofoten.
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- The Tommyknockers – a Stephen King novel which involves the uncovering of a metallic object under the earth, and then goes all Stephen King all over the place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tommyknockers
- Geoffrey of Monmouth didn’t actually claim Troy was in Britain, as Kate had thought, but that a legendary descendant of Aeneas travelled to the Atlantic Archipelago and became the first king of Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutus_of_Troy
- St Kilda, a small group of islands off the west coast of Scotland – an already small and declining population and unsustainable food sources led to the islands being fully abandoned in 1930 (although the military have settled there from the 1950s on): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland
- Identifying recording time from mains power hum (it is actually a real thing and Kate didn’t imagine it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_network_frequency_analysis
- ‘Out of cheese error, redo from start’ Hex, Discworld: https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Hex
- Prepositions are cool – Doctor Who, the Eleventh Doctor - “I wear a fez now”: https://youtu.be/V9J1qBunLC0
- https://www.lofotr.no/en/the-history/a-sensational-discovery
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5udUbDvpkE
- How to find us online
The fabulous author Cat Rector returns to the virtual campfire to talk about her second book, Epilogues for Lost Gods, the follow up last year's The Goddess of Nothing at All, a Sigyn focussed, queer, dark retelling of Norse myths. Epilogues is due out on 15th November 2022.
You can find Cat here: To order books, including signed and hardbacks (and sign up for her newsletter): https://www.catrector.com/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cat_rector And also on Instagram and Twitter.
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
· Barghest (phantom black dog): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barghest
· Hathersage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathersage
· Arch in the wall at Church Bank, Hathersage: https://goo.gl/maps/U4DaJHw5u6EfqMHz6
· Olaf, the Viking Monk of Tyemouth Priory: https://great-castles.com/tynemouthghost.html
· The story of Thorgunna the undead cooker-of-breakfast appears at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyrbyggja_saga#Thorgunna
· The full Eyrbyggja Saga, in somewhat archaic language, is at https://sagadb.org/eyrbyggja_saga.en - you'll need to scroll down to Chapter 50 for the beginning of Thorgunna's story; and the seal appears (up to below the flappers, apparently), at the tail end of Chapter 53. Also, carnage at Frotha (or 'Frodis-Water') besides. It's grim, tbh.
· How to find us online
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Jennifer's Rabbit - Tom Paxton: https://youtu.be/C-eegzbEwRw
I Give You The Morning - Tom Paxton: https://youtu.be/Pun-y0uGT_8
Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues - Tom Paxton: https://youtu.be/HMHRayIRMvE
Awaken the North: https://awakenthenorth.org/
Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom: https://goo.gl/maps/ZRT4HG5TZFWgSJik9
The Luggage, from the Discworld novels by Sir Terry Pratchett: https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Luggage
Leeloo's reconstruction - from 'The Fifth Element': https://youtu.be/8-uvOpMyPgI
Prittlewell Princely Burial on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prittlewell_royal_Anglo-Saxon_burial
News item in local newspaper re exhibition, May 2019: https://www.halsteadgazette.co.uk/news/south_essex_news/17626925.anglo-saxon-king-exhibition-showing-southends-rich-cultural-heritage-officially-opens/
Dedicated site by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA): https://www.prittlewellprincelyburial.org/
Article on Archaeology.co.uk: https://archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/new-secrets-from-prittlewell-reconstructing-a-burial-chamber-fit-for-a-prince.htm
https://www.anoxfordhistorian.com/post/the-prittlewell-prince
How to find us online
Episode 139 UPG-Raiding: Valuing Personal Gnosis
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Awaken the North: https://awakenthenorth.org/
Ahmad ibn Fadlan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan
A summary of the different stories of Hod. Or Hodr. Or Hotherus: https://norse-mythology.org/hodr/
"In Latin, Jehovah starts with an I" - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989): https://youtu.be/XqGWI0WTj24
"Don't look at the light!" "It's so beautiful!" - A Bug's Life (1998): https://youtu.be/KHDxkXV7xsE
How to find us online
Episode 138 Perchance to Dream
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Opening Poem: 'He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven'; W B Yeats (1899)
Sean Bean reads out the poem 'He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' in an early scene of the 2002 dystopian action movie 'Equilibrium': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/
'The Sandman' (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1751634/), based on the comic book series of the same name by Neil Gaiman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_(comic_book)
Oneiromancy - divination through dreams: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=oneiromancy
Mistletoe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistletoe
Cartman has to finish 'Come Sail Away' by Styx - 'South Park', season 2; episode 'Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Sl*t': https://youtu.be/5Xm2ab3qfZY
'Blackadder III', episode 'Sense and Senility' (BBC 1987): https://youtu.be/h--HR7PWfp0
'To be, or not to be' - Soliloquy from 'Hamlet', Act 3, Scene 1. David Tennant performs an abbreviated version here: https://youtu.be/GD6vDLS_ZZQ
Laxdaela Saga - English translation as 'The Laxdale Saga': https://sagadb.org/laxdaela_saga.en
Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu - English translation as 'The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Rafn the Skald': https://sagadb.org/gunnlaugs_saga_ormstungu.en
Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dream - The Holy Bible - the Book of Genesis, Chapter 41: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2041&version=NASB [Pharaoh had the dream - Joseph interpreted it.]
The portentous dream the Prince Regent had in Blackadder III, episode 6 ('Duel and Duality') featured horses, not cows. Duncan's horses, specifically - as in King Duncan, from Macbeth. (And Kate reckons to be a Blackadder fan, honestly.) Anyway, the exchange is described here (couldn't find a clip): https://johnelliswords.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/blackadders-lost-jokes/
The Jomsviking or the Jomsborg Saga: https://www.jomsborg.co.uk/jomsborg-saga
The Mirror of Galadriel - scene from 'The Lord of the Rings' (Ralph Bakshi's animated version, 1978 - in Peter Jackson's 'Fellowship of the Ring' it's only Frodo that looks into the Mirror): https://youtu.be/jltwAEQ4kGg
"Don't worry about the vase" - Neo meets the Oracle, in 'The Matrix' (1999): https://youtu.be/eVF4kebiks4
If you want to head deeper into how dreams are treated in sagas:
Crocker https://www.jstor.org/stable/48617211
Watson https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/documents/innervate/16-17/13.-watson-l-q33227.pdf
How to find us online
Episode 137 Ancestors of the Future
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Gary Larson - The Far Side: https://www.thefarside.com/ (The 'Cow Tools' cartoon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Tools ) ('Punk Porcupines': https://www.pinterest.com/pin/211739619970431083/)
Trekkies: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Trekkie (Some fans prefer the term 'Trekker' for various reasons - you may hear either.)
Star Wars fan community: As a term for Star Wars fans, 'Warsies' has been used, mostly as a play on 'Trekkies', but its use was limited in a few forums and it never picked up much traction. 'Star Warrior' and 'Wannabe Jedi' also get mentioned but, again, don't seem to be in common circulation.
Whovian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_fandom
Awaken The North: https://awakenthenorth.org/
Artemis I Lunar Test Flight: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1 (Looks like the next launch window is September 3, 2022; so Saturday, we think, not Friday as Kate said.)
Captain Proton, a fictitious character played by a fictitious character played by Robert Duncan McNeill in 'Star Trek: Voyager': https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Proton
Robert Duncan McNeill - actor and director; played Tom Paris in Star Trek: Voyager, who in turn, within the show, played Captain Proton: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000536/
PIIIIIIGS IIIIIIN SPAAAAAAACE!: https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Pigs_in_Space
I'd put a reference in here for 50 Shades of Grey and how it started out as Twilight fan-fic but we're rated Universal. PG at worst.
'Time' from the 2010 Christopher Nolan movie 'Inception'. The soundtrack was composed by Hans Zimmer. (And this track gives Kate the shivers, she doesn't mind admitting it.): https://youtu.be/c56t7upa8Bk
Lorentz transformation: This is a mathematical method for relating the comparative experiences or observations of two observers in separate space-time reference frames (say, someone standing on a planet and someone moving at high sub-light speed in a starship).
"A big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff." - From the Doctor Who episode 'Blink': https://youtu.be/cwdbLu_x0gY
"All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again." - Battlestar Galactica, the 2003 're-imagining', repeatedly uses this phrase as a quote from an in-universe holy scripture. It's also the first line spoken - fairly inexplicably, if you ask us - by the narrator in Disney's Peter Pan, but try as we might we can't find a decent clip of that.
The Bootstrap Paradox. Gonna go back to the Doctor again to explain this one: https://youtu.be/u4SEDzynMiQ
Despicable Me - Gru announces his (super)villainous plan: https://youtu.be/fdrR3NbPARs
"What we do in life echoes in eternity." From the 2000 movie 'Gladiator': https://youtu.be/UHLmKUoaxY0
"Shadows and dust." Also from 'Gladiator': https://youtu.be/5Z6EvBFblvg
On the reading-out of Shakespeare plays in class: it was actually the other way around than Kate said. It was Brutus talking to Cassius, not Cassius talking to Brutus.
"All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us." Spoken by Gandalf to Frodo in The Lord of the Rings: https://youtu.be/IrOqnZdvI6M?t=116
How to find us online
Episode 136 - Bits ‘o’ Coin: The Silverdale Hoard
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Oranges and Lemons nursery rhyme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_and_Lemons
‘The Bells of St John’ – Dr Who, series 7 https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Bells_of_Saint_John_(TV_story)
Awaken the North: https://awakenthenorth.org/
Lord of the Rings, Battle of Helms Deep: opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXC-jJhFaUI
Loot box mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S-DGTBZU14
Sue, the T Rex https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/sue-t-rex and her Twitter account: https://twitter.com/SUEtheTrex
Murderbirds: https://coelasquid.tumblr.com/post/111317780763/nebu-kuro
Smaug and his hoard in the Lonely Mountain: The Hobbit: https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Smaug
Half an onion in a bag: https://twitter.com/halfonioninabag
The Silver Horde: https://wiki.lspace.org/Silver_Horde
Treasure Trove Laws in the UK: https://www.gov.uk/treasure
Greek financial crisis: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/070115/understanding-downfall-greeces-economy.asp
Read more: https://lancashiremuseumsstories.wordpress.com/2021/09/10/the-silverdale-hoard-10-years-on-part-i-discovery/
The Hoard at Jorvik: https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/whats-on/silverdale-hoard-exhibition/
How to find us online
Episode 135 Storytime Some Like it Ott(er)
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Awaken the North https://awakenthenorth.org/
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern – two minor characters from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/rosencrantz-guildenstern-hamlet/
Waiting for Svipdag – Parody of the play ‘Waiting for Godot’ https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-waiting-for-godot
‘Snows always melt’ Mark Anthony in Rome ‘How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd_kh3V1aTM
Shrek (2001) https://www.dreamworks.com/movies/shrek
“I like to think the world is safer now” Kormac, one of the three followers in Diablo III https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Kormac
City of Neriak, Everquest II https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Neriak,_City_of_Hate
Not That ring: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/One_Ring
“I will fong you” Wat from ‘A Knights Tale’ (2001) (also with James Purefoy…) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183790/characters/nm0876138
“This bad boy can hold...” meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/slaps-roof-of-car
Shocko – elf from Disenchantment https://disenchantment.fandom.com/wiki/Shocko
Tim Burton – American filmmaker, with themes of gothic fantasy and horror https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/
Neil Gaiman UK author of books, short stories and series like Sandman, Watchmen and Neverwhere. https://www.neilgaiman.com/
“For hates sake” quote originally from Moby Dick, reused in Star Trek Wrath of Khan
How to find us online
Episode 134 - The One with Other Peoples Homework
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Images from the James Webb Telescope Images: https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/index.html
SMACS 0723 Deep Field image showing gravitational lensing effect on distant galaxies: https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/assets/images/firstImages/image1-DeepField/STSCI-J-p22035a-4000px.jpg
"One hundred and EIGHTYYYYYY!" - Bullseye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullseye_(British_game_show)
Not sure why we both say 'substraction' while we're talking about darts, but Kate definitely started it.
Awaken the North: https://awakenthenorth.org
Lidar in Archaeology: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/lasers-lidar-driving-revolution-archaeology (Site paywalled, but NatGeo allows 3 free article views/month)
"One world, one people" - slogan of the 'Flag Smashers', antagonist group in "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier": https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Flag_Smashers
Diana L. Paxson, author and Steerswoman of The Troth: https://diana-paxson.com/
'The Way of Wyrd' by Brian Bates: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781800170/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_7EPVFYWDA9Z7TESEHE2C
Dinosaurs "Retro vs Modern" series by Nix Illustrations: https://nixillustration.com/category/theme-months/retro-vs-modern/
'Jurassic World': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369610/
'The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia', by Neil Price: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07SC9S8GC/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_AE0WW6E3XPXHR6PS1K0S
Hyggnaþing Old Norse Studies Conference: https://hyggnathing.wordpress.com/
Norse in the North: https://norseinthenorth.wordpress.com/
[Kate says: Dammit, it wasn't Egon; it was Ray he was talking to. Call myself a geek, honestly...]
How to find us online
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Don’t Starve https://www.klei.com/games/dont-starve
The cave where you don’t need your weapons: Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
Awaken the North https://awakenthenorth.org/
Hotel California, song by The Eagles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVsbvFkhzY4
Hilberts Theory of the Grand Hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faQBrAQ87l4
Theological Seminary – here’s the one in Mirfield https://college.mirfield.org.uk/
Cold Comfort Farm (1995) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112701/
Hold the Door: Hodor from Game of Thrones
How to find us online
Episode 132 Theological Cosmology and other words to win Scrabble with.
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the Dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129kuDCQtHs
Obi Wan Kenobi – Star Wars https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi
Awaken the North - https://awakenthenorth.org/
‘Take you on a Journey’ – Rocky Horror Picture Show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073629/
Ultra terrestrial theory, see Vallee, Jaques: Passport to Magonia https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/passport-to-magonia/author/vallee-jacques/
The Mothman Prophecies (2002) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265349/
“All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.” First line of Peter Pan, and also used in the remake of Battlestar Galactica
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2F4INQFjEI Chris Rea – Road to Hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUUdQfnshJ4
OPM - Heaven is a Halfpipe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCSJzw6QM_Q Meatloaf - Heaven can Wait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJKm0KxQ2L4 The number 40 in the Bible: https://www.biblestudy.org/bibleref/meaning-of-numbers-in-bible/40.html
The Ballad of Svipdag: Frithcast episode 71 https://gythainjeans.podbean.com/e/frithcast-episode-71-storytime-the-one-with-boopbeak-in/
Lucid dreaming: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323077
John Constantine https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360486/ (Keanu Reeves has also played characters called John Wick, Johnny Silverhand and Johnny Mnemonic…)
‘Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks’ - part of the moon runes on the Dwarven map in The Hobbit
Axis Mundi/ Irminsul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irminsul
How to find us online
Episode 131 – Reflections on Jorvik
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Star Wars (if you’ve not yet seen Clone Wars animated series, consider a watch. Just sayin’) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458290/
Awaken the North: https://awakenthenorth.org/
Jorvik Viking Centre: https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/
Jorvik Viking Festival:https://jorvikvikingfestival.co.uk/
History of York https://www.visityork.org/history-of-york
Coppergate Helmet: http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/themes/anglo-saxon/the-york-helmet
York Minster: https://yorkminster.org/
Koln/ Cologne Cathedral: https://www.koelner-dom.de/en
How to find us online
Episode 130 Dress to Impress
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
ICAO pronunciations of numbers and the phonetic alphabet: https://skybrary.aero/articles/icao-phonetic-alphabet
Microsoft Flight Simulator - other simulators are available: https://www.flightsimulator.com/
"Thirteen!" It's a reference to the Thirteenth Legion - XIII Gemina - as featured in the HBO TV series 'Rome'. Disclaimer: to our knowledge neither Suzanne or Kate have served in the Roman Army, but we did like the show.
You can find Awaken The North at: https://awakenthenorth.org/
Slay and Not Play - a reference to RuPaul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuPaul
Erik the Red, Chapter 4 (1880 Translation by J. Sephton): https://sagadb.org/eiriks_saga_rauda.en
Franks Casket: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1867-0120-1
Mercury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(mythology)
Frithcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frithcastpod
How to find us online
Episode 129 To Hel and Back
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Milton: Paradise Lost https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45718/paradise-lost-book-1-1674-version
Soliloquy from Hamlet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLAzfQDS3M
‘Spoilers sweetie’ River Song in Dr Who https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/River_Song
Harvey ‘Two-Face’ Dent: https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Two-Face
Garm from Guild Wars II https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Garm
Hilda Ellis – The Road to Hel – available online as a free PDF: http://www.germanicmythology.com/scholarship/road_to_hel.pdf
The changing concepts of Heaven and Hell in Christian Theology: https://factsanddetails.com/world/cat55/sub353/item1402.html
Bractates IK14 and IK24: Pesch, Alexandra (2002). "Frauen und Brakteaten - eine Skizze". In Rudolf Simek; Wilhelm Heizmann (eds.). Mythological Women. Vienna: Verlag Fassbaender. pp. 33–80. ISBN 3-900538-73-5.
Sutton Hoo Scepter https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1939-1010-160
Hela – Marvel supervillain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hela_(character)
Kill Bill https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/
Cat Rector: The Goddess of Nothing at All and Epilogue for Lost Gods: https://www.catrector.com/books
The end prayer is ‘A Traveller Approaches’ from Gods Own County Heathen Prayerbook by Dan Coultas and the Heathens of Yorkshire: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gods-Own-County-Heathen-Prayer-ebook/dp/B07YF1MTZW/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
How to find us online
Episode 128 G is for Gokstad part II
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Do Ray Mi – from The Sound of Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drnBMAEA3AM
Orinoco Flow – Enya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw
Awaken the North: https://awakenthenorth.org/
‘What, what, what, what?’ Neddie Seagoon from The Goon Show
‘My Tallest’ from Invader Zim https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235923/
Thelwell - https://www.thelwell.org.uk/
Bruce the Hoon https://wiki.lspace.org/Bruce_the_Hoon
The Mary Rose https://maryrose.org/
Bj581 https://www.medievalists.net/2019/12/grave-bj-581-the-viking-warrior-that-was-a-woman/
The Generation Game https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198126/
Viking – replica of Gokstad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_(replica_Viking_longship)
‘We are on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan’: from Star Wars: A New Hope
Golden Eye Priestess burial (not quite Scythian, but still awesome) : https://nweyedesign.com/5000-year-old-artificial-eye/ and also https://cushareejournal.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/golden-eye-and-the-burnt-city-the-earliest-known-ocular-prosthesis-from-the-city-of-shahr-i-sokhta/
How to find us online
Frithcast Episode 127 - G is for Gokstad part I
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Astonishing Legends podcast: https://www.astonishinglegends.com/
“There’ll be no living with her after this” Pirates of the Caribbean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybNPAsjqeco
Anerobic conditions and preservaton: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/preserving-archaeological-remains/heag100c-appendix2-preservation-assessment-techniques/
Mr Motivator http://www.mrmotivator.com/welcome/
Iron Age Burials at Pazyryk, Siberia: https://voicesoncentralasia.org/the-treasures-of-pazyryk-kurgans-in-the-hermitage-museum/
Tollund Man: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tollund-man-europe-bog-body-meal-food-history-mummy-180978247/
“The wind is in the sails!” Blackadder II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EfW9znJYjw
“A man is filled with water, you make a hole and the water leaks out” Syrio Forel, Game of Thrones Season 1, episode3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rwPa3H1MFU
Human hands and feet: https://www.britannica.com/science/human-skeleton/Hands-and-feet
https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/gokstad/
http://viking.archeurope.com/ships/gokstad-ship/gokstad-ship-burial/
Revisiting Gokstad: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281118137_Revisiting_Gokstad_Interdisciplinary_investigations_of_a_find_complex_excavated_in_the_19th_century
The Gokstad Mound:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/constructing-and-deconstructing-the-gokstad-mound/460EA38532CB9925EBD7C9F0237268B9
How to find us online
Episode 126 Storytime: The One that Got Away
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Maeshowe Inscriptions: http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/maeshowe/maeshrunes.htm
Billy Connolly: https://billyconnolly.com/
Gosforth Cross: It’s not on the Cross at Gosforth (which is also worth a look), but it’s a stone set into the church wall at Gosforth: http://viking.archeurope.info/index.php?page=gosforth-thor-fishing (Here’s Sturlson’s account: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/thorserpent.html) Big Skillet: Prince Derek from Disenchantment: https://disenchantment.fandom.com/wiki/Prince_Derek
We’re going to need a bigger boat: Jaws (1975) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I91DJZKRxs
“Darmok” Episode of Star Trek The Next Generation: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Darmok_(episode)
How to find us online
Episode 125 Shifting Communities
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Diablo III- https://us.diablo3.blizzard.com/en-gb/
How to find us online
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
In this last episode, Kate and Suzanne talk with Gothi Beast from Missouri about his heathenry.
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
In this episode Kate and Suzanne talk with UK author and multi-hat wearer Dan Coultas about his heathenry. Dan's Goodreads author page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19604011.Dan_Coultas Dan's Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dan-Coultas/e/B085BP93BQ%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
In this third short episode, Kate and Suzanne talk with Frigga, a Heathen from the Netherlands about her heathenry.
Het Rad: Het Rad – Germaans Heidendom – Runen -Seidr Flame of Frith https://www.facebook.com/groups/flameoffrith/
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Between a broken beer tap and a kalestorm, Kate and I spoke to Fenja around the virtual campfire to talk a little about her heathenry as a heathen living in Taiwan.
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
A brand new mini series to coincide with the traditional dates of the Jorvik Viking Festival 2022. Talking with guests around the virtual campfire about what they understand as #MyHeathenry. In this first episode, we talk with Ashleah Hudson about osteomancy and ancestor veneration in her faith practice.
Throwing the Bones: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54829082-throwing-the-bones
Ashleah's website: https://ashleah2.wixsite.com/mysticalawakenings-1
Episode 124 – Family, Ancestors, and Community.
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Spiny Norman: https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/Spiny_Norman
Pauses for audience applause – Bluebottle, The Goon Show.
Got a bit of an echo on this episode, not sure where from. Hopefully it’s not too bad.
How to find us online
Episode 123 – Rune Spotlight Haglaz (of fish and chips)
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Clicking for appreciation: In poetry circles - as well as other spoken-word contexts, including some academic presentations - it's convention to click or snap one's fingers rather than clapping hands. It's a quieter way to show appreciation, and it doesn't overwhelm the performer's delivery demanding a pause or other break in the flow.
"Why don't you share?" and "I'm sorry, Laura - I don't understand the question" - lines from TV series 'Humans': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4122068/
Rubber bushings - They're a component in cars, and Kate had been playing Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 pretty intensively for a few days. I'd link it but I (hi, Kate writing the notes today) can't see any usefully descriptive site that isn't just a straight-up purchase page, and we're not here to sell stuff to you.
Esperanto - a constructed language originally formulated in 1887, intended for use as a global auxiliary language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
"Whaaaaaa...?" - Shocko the Elf, from animated TV series Disenchantment: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5363918/
Arnold Rimmer learning Esperanto - from 'Red Dwarf':
"Open Charlie tunnel" - Eddie Izzard, a two-part bit on stand-up show 'Unrepeatable'; establishing that purring is actually the sound of cats drilling (https://youtu.be/lnBtd-dOnUQ ) and later calling back with a reference to finding their drilling equipment (https://youtu.be/2zqlykUPaNc ).
"Have a gorilla" / "Have one of my monkeys, they're milder" / "I only smoke baboons" / "Baboon Show!" - several of a vast number of running gags in 1950s BBC radio comedy 'The Goon Show' - many of which gags the good burghers of Wikipedia have assembled here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show_running_jokes
"I wrote it down on a piece of paper" - an epic Goon Show sketch featuring regular characters Eccles and Bluebottle discussing timekeeping: https://youtu.be/ctM_Rvgjfpo (remember it was a radio show - the visuals were added by the person uploading it to YouTube)
Rune Poems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune_poem
The Oncoming Storm - a Dalek name for the Doctor, according to the Doctor (Doctor Who): https://youtu.be/6ThpkjDgdvY
"Do your worst." (The Count of Monte Cristo): https://youtu.be/pf3xp0z4Cf8
"Death smiles at us all - all a man can do is smile back" - Maximus, quoting Marcus Aurelius (Gladiator): https://youtu.be/_uSZl03zSXE
The original Ghostbusters was indeed released in 1984: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/
"And slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us" - Richard Burton in 'The Eve of the War', from Jeff Wayne's 'War of the Worlds': https://youtu.be/Poii8JAbtng
Steven Spielberg's 'War of the Worlds' (2005): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407304/
'I Am Legend' listing on doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/24939
Schrodinger's Cat (quantum physics thought experiment - nobody's actually done it, Dawn, it's fine): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
'Sliding Doors' (1998): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120148/
How to find us online
Romulan hair
Also, if you’re wondering about the title, it’s another Goon Show reference, this time to a brief exchange whereby one character is offered a drink and asks for “a glass of fish and chips”. See? A glass? Haglaz? Ha-glaz? GEDDIT you geddit of course you do. Anyway thanks for reading the notes, you’ve been a fantastic readership and it’s been a pleasure throwing links at you. See you next time.
Episode 122 – Sail Away
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Walrus Island / “this the sofa where Bean makes her sofa Gin” Disenchantment TV Series. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5363918/
Orinoco Flow – Enya. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw We know: it’s going to get stuck in your head. You’re welcome.
Glastonbury Tor https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/glastonbury-tor
“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair” Ozymanidas https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias
Stingray TV Show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057786/
The Muppet Movie – Fork in the Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mGXLgGqkY
The Two Ronnies ‘Four Candles’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNTM9iM1eVw
Ant and Dec https://www.antanddec.com/
“Always choose the lesser of two weevils” Master and Commander: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAwIN8J3RAE
“Sail round and round the Isle of Wight until everyone gets dizzy and we go home” Blackadder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EfW9znJYjw
“I can’t help it, it’s so beautiful!” A Bugs Life 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCT88fmW8uo
Pining for the Fjords - The Dead Parrot Sketch https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xoh8j
“Same thing we do every night, Pinky” Pinky and the Brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGWKL-5ToD4
“Nor a drop to drink” Rime of the Ancient Mariner https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834
The Draken https://www.drakenhh.com/
Everquest – crafting system in the first game was famously complex and required you to build each component before you assembled it into things you could use.
Sail fragments from Oseberg – showing that 2/2 twill was used: http://forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/Oseberg/textiles/TEXTILE.HTM
Wool sails: https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/professions/boatyard/experimental-archaeological-research/maritime-crafts/maritime-technology/wool-sailcloth
The Trousers of Time – Terry Pratchett: https://wiki.lspace.org/Trousers_of_Time
“The Gloomy Trousers of Uncle Vanye” The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchet https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-fifth-elephant.html
Two one twill, thanks for everything Julie Neumar – paraphrasing Too Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Neumar
The Skuldelev Ships: https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/visit-the-museum/exhibitions/the-five-viking-ships
An exploration of textiles and Viking sails: https://textileranger.com/2014/04/24/on-the-trail-of-sail-history-the-vikings/ and the follow up article here: https://textileranger.com/2016/07/31/following-up-on-viking-sails/
An exploration of a modern reconstruction Viking ship, and the sheep that made it possible: https://hakaimagazine.com/features/no-wool-no-vikings/
“We are Borg” from Star Trek: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Assimilation
Independence Day 1996 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/
North Ronaldsay Sheep https://www.theorkneysheepfoundation.org.uk/the-sheep/
How to find us online
Episode 121- Finding Community
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Condensed ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ - ScaryDuck http://scaryduck.blogspot.com/2008/07/condensed-films-raiders-of-lost-ark.html
The Confederation of Heathen Kindreds (UK inclusive heathen kindred network) https://www.facebook.com/UKheathenkindreds/
How to find us online
Episode 120 Random Reel V The Reel Strikes Back
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Activate
Channelling Caesar
Creaky Chair
Flat Earth Return Ticket
Forgotten
Introductions and How to Do Them
Politics Music French
Range is Good
Sensitive Semtex
Spiders and Nuclear Reactors
Stagefright
Surprise John Hurt
Talking Music Covers
Turkey Impala
Unexpected Tickling
Vampire Brunette
Yawn
Yggdraville
Well…
Here we are. Here we all are. The fifth random reel of Frithcast… five years, you lovely trash panda darlings, you. Some of you have been with us for five whole years of episodes, and a change of virtual home to boot, some of you have listened to us for a little less, and for some, this may be your first experience of a random reel. If so, you’re in for a bit of something different.
Kate and I wanted to say a big thank you and big loves to all you lovely listeners around the world, you’re the reason that we’ve kept making episodes all this time, and the reason that we now have a Discord channel home for Frithcast including the virtual campfire channel.
So, here’s your random reel for this year, from us to you. We hope to see you around the virtual campfire soon.
Suzanne and Kate
Episode 119 Invisible Jotnar
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Innoruuk, God of Hate from Everquest:https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=1597
Marianas Trench: http://www.deepseachallenge.com/the-expedition/mariana-trench/
Gengis Cohen and the Silver Horde: https://wiki.lspace.org/Silver_Horde
Polyvagal Nerve Theory;https://ct.counseling.org/2016/06/polyvagal-theory-practice/
“Gondor calls for Aid!” Aragorn, Lord of the Rings.
The big red alarm button that brings the good cup of Jo: Monsters vs Aliens
Shawn of the Dead https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/
The biggest flying beastie in Avatar:https://www.avatar.com/
River Tam https://firefly.fandom.com/wiki/River_Tam
The battered pizza thing from Operation – Annihilate!, Star Trek Original Series:https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Operation_--_Annihilate!_(episode)
Rincewind, from Discworld https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Rincewind
Mz Hyde, Halestorm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2OD-dV7j_I
Places that may help:
https://nopanic.org.uk
www.sane.org.uk
https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/
https:giveusashout.org - mental health text support in the UK, free from most major networks
Free Apps to try: Moodspace
SAM – self help for anxiety management
What’s Up?
Breathe2Relax
Happify
Smiling Mind
How to find us online
Episode 118 Rune Spotlight: A Thorny Issue
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Commander Calvin ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson, Star Trek https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Calvin_Hutchinson
Farscape - John and Scorpio - https://farscape.fandom.com/wiki/Scorpius and https://farscape.fandom.com/wiki/John_Crichton
BSG - Six and Baltar - https://en.battlestarwikiclone.org/wiki/Messengers
“Two spikes would be an extravagance” Blackadder series 2, ‘Beer’
‘Its a magical place’ Agent Phil Coulson, Agents of Shield
“I would like... to tell you a story” Narrator, Rocky Horror Picture Show
‘Murther She Wrote’ TV show (1984 – 1996) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086765/
Fking Baby Fking Shark - No. We're not providing references for this. We're just going to say no more about it, 'kay? Just search it on YouTube and the gods help you.
Sleeping Beauty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty
Snow White and Rose Red: https://www.worldoftales.com/fairy_tales/Brothers_Grimm/Grimm_fairy_stories/Snow-White_And_Rose-Red.html#gsc.tab=0
The Wild Swans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Swans
Spiniensis – Roman god of briars, mentioned briefly by Fabious Pictor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiniensis
Foul Old Le Ron, Discworld. https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Foul_Ole_Ron
Spiny Norman: https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/Spiny_Norman
Predator - Mac opens fire - https://youtu.be/XZ-EOg38t1o
Maleficent: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587310/
Santa Glug is a goblin gift-giver in the multiplayer game 'Everquest II'. He lives in a village called Frostfell, which appears at the time of the winter festival of the same name, and can be accessed through a magical wardrobe: https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Santa_Glug
"Give me all your... one apple..." - Extract from 'Interesting Times', by Terry Pratchett; as teacher Mister Saveloy is attempting to teach Ghenghis Cohen and his horde of elderly but formidable barbarians how to do commerce: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/InterestingTimes#:~:text=Mr.%20Saveloy%27s%20attempts,to%20other%20people.%22
How to find us online
Episode 117 Storytime: Harbarth Plays a Sound
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
The Poem of Harbarth online: https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe08.htm
Millennium Falcon - the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, and then the Star Wars franchise had to try and retroactively explain why Han Solo didn't seem to know that a parsec is a measure of distance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Falcon
The One With Boopbeak - aka The Ballad of Svipdagr (Bellows' 1936 translation with a fair few thees and thous and that): https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe16.htm
Dune - recently a rather snazzy new film, previously a film I quite liked actually, a couple of TV miniserieses, and six books plus a bundle of others written by the original author's son: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)
Star Trek - where to start? How do you explain to someone what Star Trek is? Well, here's the official site: https://intl.startrek.com/shows
Ghostbusters: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/ (This is the original 1984 movie. We tried ever so hard to like the 2016 one; really, we did. But anyway, this was a quote from the original.)
Ceilidh or cèilidh: https://www.inlingua-edinburgh.co.uk/what-is-the-scottish-ceilidh-and-ceilidh-dancing/ (these are the formal ceilidhs that run like (because they are) folk dancing events. Kind of like those barn dances the Americans do, only in Scotland there's no 'e' in 'whisky'.)
'Kaylee' - Kaywinnet Lee Frye, the irrepressibly optimistic and shiny-hearted engineer on the Firefly-class freighter 'Serenity', from the TV series 'Firefly' and the movie 'Serenity': https://firefly.fandom.com/wiki/Kaywinnet_Lee_Frye (I don't know how she spells 'whisky'. Probably in Chinese ('威士忌酒', I believe).
"You both look pretty groovy" - lyric from the song 'Sweet Transvestite', from 'The Rocky Horror Show': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WDXOO3VM-0
Brandywine Bridge / Buckleberry Ferry - both found in the Shire in Middle-earth; 'The Lord of the Rings'.
Paying the Ferryman - the tradition of 'Charon's Obol': placing a coin under the tongue of a dead person so they can use it to pay the ferryman Charon to take them across the River Styx: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon%27s_obol
'Donald, Where's Yer Troosers?' - song by Andy Stewart and Neil Grant - first released in 1960, it was a modest hit; re-released in 1989 it did even better and got to number 4 in the UK charts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yw0bLHTOb0
'That escalated quickly.' - From 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy': https://youtu.be/bFWQYMdMIPQ
Lacuna Coil - an Italian gothic metal band: https://www.lacunacoil.com ('Lacuna' also means a gap or unfilled space, usually describing where a piece of text is missing: from the Latin 'lacuna' meaning 'small lake'.)
"A pair of yellow waders and a passport in the name of Emily Berkenstein" - in the first Red Dwarf novel, 'Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers', a hungover Dave Lister comes to after a pub crawl to find himself on Saturn's moon Mimas, with "a lady's pink crimplene hat and a pair of yellow fishing waders, with no money and a passport in the name of 'Emily Berkenstein'." (The pub crawl, by the by, was around London. On Earth. Quite a night, apparently.) : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/349090.Infinity_Welcomes_Careful_Drivers
Jon Snow’s introduction to Danerys, Breaker of Chains…: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZvy0jfAu38
‘Bite my shiny metal butt’ Bender from Futurama https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Bite_my_shiny_metal_ass!
Cinema Sins https://cinemasins.com/
HP Lovecraft https://www.hplovecraft.com/
‘And slowly but surely they drew their plans against us’ War of the Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poii8JAbtng
‘Why is Cats?’ Video essay by Lindsey Ellis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6iqAip-ZNo&vl=en
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves ‘We were set upon by ten… twenty… big... huge ...lads...” (1991)
‘If you’d left the theatre when these credits began...’ Hotshots (1991)
‘Puny God’ Avengers (2012 ) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/
Half a War, Half a King – Joe Abercrombie https://joeabercrombie.com/books/half-a-king/
“I was popular because the crowd loved me” Gladiator (2000) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/
‘Spoilers, Sweetie.” River Song, Dr Who https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/River_Song
“If someone asks you if you are a god, you say, Yes!” Ghostbusters (1984)
How to find us online
Episode 116 Grettir gets Glam
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
· "The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea." - Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Samuel Taylor Coleridge (and his mushrooms)
· The X-Files and Lost - two very long-running TV shows.
· Thor gets hangry - Thor and Loki's Journey to Utgardr/The Tale of Utgarda-Loki
· The alien Predator deploys its last-ditch get-even device, a wrist-mounted nuclear charge, to kill Dutch Schaefer - Predator (1987)
· "Tick tock, Mister Wick" - opening scene from John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (2019)
· The Hero's Journey; Joseph Campbell - a book analysing the ancient archetypal adventure storyline as followed by more or less every film you've ever seen. Including Star Wars.
The bit in Blackadder about the rabbit, which Kate spectacularly failed to remember. It's the First World War. Lieutenant George St Barleigh's commanding officer and kind-of friend has been captured behind enemy lines. George wants to mount a rescue attempt. General Melchett doesn't think there's any point...
MELCHETT: Now, George. Do you remember when I came down to visit you when you were a nipper for your sixth birthday? You used to have a lovely little rabbit. Beautiful little thing. Do you remember?
GEORGE: Flossy.
MELCHETT: That’s right. Flossy. Do you remember what happened to Flossy?
GEORGE: You shot him.
MELCHETT: That’s right. It was the kindest thing to do after he’d been run over by that car.
GEORGE: By your car, Sir.
MELCHETT: Yes, by my car. But that too was an act of mercy when you would remember that that dog had been set on him.
GEORGE: Your dog, Sir.
MELCHETT: Yes, yes, my dog. But what I’m trying to say, George, is that the state young Flossy was in after we’d scraped him off my front tyre is very much the state that young Blackadder will be in now. If not very nearly dead, then very actually dead.
GEORGE: Permission for lip to wobble, Sir?
MELCHETT: Permission granted.
George's bottom lip wobbles. Melchett slaps him on the shoulder
MELCHETT: Stout fellow.
- Blackadder Goes Forth - Episode 'Private Plane'; BBC Television (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder_Goes_Forth)
· The Witcher series of novels by Andrzej Sapkowski, and TV adaptation on Netflix
· Althing - a parliament or decision-making assembly; the Icelandic Parliament is today called the Althing or Althingi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing
· The Operative and Mal Reynolds; Serenity (2005)
· "No disassemble Number 5!"; Short Circuit (1986)
For some reason we neglected to tell you how to find us online this episode. But if you want us we're on Twitter (@)GythaInJeans and (@)KateColdwind, and you can find our Facebook page at fb.com/FrithcastPod.
Episode 115 It Depends on Who’s Looking
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
"We are your bona podcasters": Julian and Sandy; Round the Horne - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c7q4l
Polari/Palare: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/fabulosa/whats-polari/
Crocs: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/crocs-nicki-minaj-christopher-kane-balenciaga-justin-bieber-b1845653.html
The Mothman Prophecies (film): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265349/
American Gods: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30165203-american-gods
The 419 scam (advance fee fraud): https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/a-z-of-fraud/419-emails-and-letters
Second Life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life
"Can't stop the signal" - Popular quote from 'Serenity': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/
"The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch" - scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: https://youtu.be/ashgP4YMdJw
How to find us online
Episode 114 Bod of Thor
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Barbara Streisand – Something’s Coming (1985 Broadway Album): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkVHILfASLY
(yes, Suzanne got the lyrics mixed up. Well, it has been over 20 years since she sang it last...)
Barbara Streisand, Duck Sauce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWhtcU4-xAM
Imperial Star Destroyer : https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Imperial_I-class_Star_Destroyer
Enterprise D https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)
Captain Benjamin Sisko, Jadzia Dax. Captain Kathryn Janeway. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, all characters from Star Trek
‘Anyone I choose is cool’ Paraphrased from the The Monks of Cool, Discworld, Sir Terry Pratchett (mentioned in Lords and Ladies and Thief of Time)
God of War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_War_(2005_video_game)
The Trumpet Guys from Knights Tale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hi8IWqic0U
“Mawage” The Princess Bride (1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3odMTPuzLwY
God of War: Ragnarok Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE-4GvjKcfs
Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_IV:_Black_Flag
Marvel Cinematic Universe: Thor https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Thor_(film)
Gimli Lockbearer, son of Gloin: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Gimli
Brendan Gleeson, actor, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322407/
Gregor Clegaine, The Mountain from Game of Thrones, as played by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haf%C3%BE%C3%B3r_J%C3%BAl%C3%ADus_Bj%C3%B6rnsson
How to find us online
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Welcome to a very special Extra Episode, with author Cat Rector, whose book 'The Goddess of Nothing at All' is due out on 1st October of this year. Drawn from Norse myth with a good dollop of queer, you can pre-order her dark fantasy debut novel before release day, both in print and ebook and find out about the author at her website catrector.com
Episode 113 Cats and Gods
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
The costly rebrand of The University of Sheffield ending up putting a full stop at the end of the name. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/marketing/visual-identity/logos/about
The invention of zero in mathematics: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-origin-of-zer/
“A very small casserole” Blackadder season 2, episode 2 ‘Head’
“Thirteen!” Rome:https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Heartwarming/Rome
“Raining men, Hallelujah!” Weathergirls ‘It’s Raining Men’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZJBLAu1E
Cerberus: https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/Cerberus/cerberus.html
Garm: https://norse-mythology.org/garm/
Cats on the cart from the Oseberg ship burial: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/the-oseberg-cart/index.html
Items related to keeping dogs, found in the Oseberg ship burial: http://www.worldtreeproject.org/items/show/2114
Graslund: Dogs in graves: http://www.isvroma.it/public/pecus/graslund.pdf
Cats sailed with Vikings: https://www.sciencealert.com/cats-sailed-with-vikings-to-conquer-the-world-genetic-study-reveals
Animal head posts at Oseberg ship burial: https://thornews.com/2017/11/20/the-puzzling-animal-head-posts-found-in-the-oseberg-viking-ship-grave/
Kate might have been thinking of the animal face on the steering board on the Gokstad ship.
And if you want to look at animal graves in a wider context, then try Jennbert: http://www.arkeologiskasamfundet.se/csa/Dokument/Volumes/csa_vol_11_2003/csa_vol_11_2003_s139-152_jennbert.pdf
We got so carried away with the Thirteen joke that we forgot to let you know how to find us online...
Episode 112 A Return to the Land
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Rocky Horror Picture Show: https://www.rockyhorror.co.uk/
“Hasn’t been your day, your week, your month or even your year” Friends Theme, The Rembrants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vuaqDDr--Q
American Pie – Don McLean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_TFkut1PM
‘Something, something trident’ - Aquaman (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1477834/
Havamal verse 52 “With half a loaf and an empty cup, I found myself a friend,”
Marcus Aurelius, author of Meditations
How to find us online
Episode 111 Dix Disir-pearing Divas
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Alice the Camel https://allnurseryrhymes.com/alice-the-camel/
March of the Sinister Ducks - Alan Moore
Ewok – small furry critter living on the moon of Endor, Star Wars Return of the Jedi
Jagular – from Winnie the Pooh
“A talk, you say?” Ian McShane’s character to John Wick in John Wick
Bilbo Baggins 111th Birthday – the event the begins the Lord of the Rings.
Maguffin in story: examples are Sleeping Beauty, the Maltese Falcon and the briefcase in Pulp Fiction.
Nanna – Chapter 38 of the Prose Edda Gylfaginning, and brief mention in chapter 49. Brief mentions in Skáldskaparmál, chapters 1,5, 9 and 75. (Sumerian moon-god Nannar:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_(mythology))
Sif – stanza’s 53-54 in Loki’s Flyting, brief mention in Prose Edda Gylfaginning chapter 31 as mother to Ull. Her hair is cut in the Skáldskaparmál.
Idunn – Loki’s Flyting stanza’s 16-18, Prose Edda Gylfaginning section 26, Skáldskaparmál tells of her kidnap and rescue.
Angrabotha – Voluspa verse 40, Gylfaginning lists her as mother to 3 children (27-34)
Sigyn – Voluspa verse 35, Gylfaginning chapter 31 and 50, Skáldskaparmál chapter 75 and an image on the Gosforth Cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosforth_Cross#/media/File:Gosforth_Cross_Loki_and_Sigyn.jpg
Bil - Gylfaginning, chapters 11 and 35. Skáldskaparmál 47 and 75.
Gna - Gylfaginning chapter 35
Snotra - Gylfaginning chapter 35
Syn - Gylfaginning chapter 35
Saga – linked with the location Sokkvabekk, listed as the fourth location in the Grímnismál, Gylfaginning chapter 35, Skáldskaparmál 75.
Moon over Bourbon Street – Sting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i_0PkOqLKA
“Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?” Quoted from Batman (1989) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeOHFwpOS-c
‘In the Pale Moonlight’, ‘It’s only a Paper Moon’ both episodes in Star Trek Deep Space Nine
How to find us online
Episode 110 – The Big Beard Debate
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Tripods from the TV series in the 1980’s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tripods_(TV_series)
For all time. Always. Slogan of the TVA, Disney’s Loki Miniseries https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Time_Variance_Authority
John of Wallingford http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/jwallingford.html
A Surfeit of Lamborghini's pun on the reason for the death of Knig Henry VIII as ‘ a surfeit of lampreys’
Those smooth Romans https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/30102-Why-did-Romans-shave
The Lincoln Comb Case https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1867-0320-12
Gragas – Early Icelandic law codes http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/society/text/laws.htm
Havamal (verse 61)
Reginsmol https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe23.htm
Ibn Fadlan https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199906/among.the.norse.tribes-the.remarkable.account.of.ibn.fadlan.htm
The Russian Primary Chronicle – have a look for the Rus Viking Queen Olga. https://www.mgh-bibliothek.de/dokumente/a/a011458.pdf
Kingsman (2014) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802144/
‘That escalated quickly’ Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802144/
Bare foot pagan https://www.retailers.com/news/2018/10/what-if-a-patron-claims-youve-violated-her-religious-beliefs/
How to find us online
Episode 109 The-One Eyed Wanderer
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo
The Mandalorian Theme (rock cover): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33nuDS6ftW0
“Mawwiage” Peter Cook in The Princes Bride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3odMTPuzLwY
“Let’s hunt some Orc” The last line from The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD-PfIdGIBE
“You’re all astronauts on some kind of Star Trek?” Star Trek First Contact (1996)
“Roll Credits” Cinema Sins https://www.youtube.com/user/CinemaSins
Gandalf is based on Odin – Tolkien’s letters 107 1946. http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Letter_107
Nithing, or Scorn Pole http://asmanxasthehills.com/stang-riding-nidings-nithings-nidstang-nithing-poles-isle-of-man/
“Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise” From Thomas Gray’s poem ‘Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eden College’ https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/9502/what-did-gray-mean-by-where-ignorance-is-bliss-tis-folly-to-be-wise
Price, N The Viking Way https://www.amazon.co.uk/Viking-Way-Magic-Mind-Scandinavia/dp/1842172603
Havamal verse warning against becoming too wise: verse 55.
How to find us online
The Conference of Heathen Women - part I*
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Our thanks to our two honoured guests, Olivia Rivera from Heathen Women United, and awesome author, Volva and guest speaker at this years Conference, Andrea Hejiskov.
You can find Heathen Women United as a Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/258460597923877 Their website here: http://heathenwomenunited.org/ And the Conference of Heathen Women page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/402731163425442
The Conference of Heathen Women event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/382317629888124 10th - 11th July, places are free, but you have to register on Eventbrite beforehand to attend. (https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/5th-annual-conference-of-heathen-women-tickets-154898974001)
Suzanne and Kate have just booked their ticket, see you there :D
*Those eagle eared among you will have noticed that this is marked 'part I' which strongly suggests the creation at some future point of a 'part II'...
Episode 108 Storytime: SagaPunk The Coding of the Firewall of Asgard
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Additional music and sound:
Doctor_ Dreamchip, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence. https://freesound.org/people/Doctor_Dreamchip/sounds/511278/
Ambient Mixer ‘Cyberpunk City somewhere’ https://science-fiction.ambient-mixer.com/cyberpunk-city-somewhere
Soft Knives by SefChol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caDL8U0DasU
June by Bobby Richards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V00gLwCZ3aY
How to find us online
Episode 107 Be Prepared
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
"We're all counting on you." - Repeated line from 'Airplane!' (1980): https://youtu.be/Zhw0eBCVXR4
Keanu Reeves with a robot arm - as Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2077
Marvel's Agent Carter: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3475734/
Marvel's Agents of SHIELD: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364582/
John Carter of Mars (no relation): https://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/series-profiles/john-carter-of-mars-series/
"I pledge allegiance to Hedley Lamarr..." - From 'Blazing Saddles' (1974): https://youtu.be/SoM-ZC7uNnc
Hedy Lamarr - Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum anti-jamming system: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hedy-lamarr-not-just-a-pr/
"Why won't you share?" - TV show 'Humans': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4122068/
"We'll all be murdered in our beds!" / "Put the brake on, Min" (should've been Min, not Henry - sorry) - The Goon Show; 'Dishonoured Again'
Content Warning: Extreme Violence: Church Massacre Scene from Kingsman: Freebird: https://youtu.be/90OFZQx_7xI
Scouting (including Girl Scouts and Girl Guides, and subdivisions for younger children, e.g. Cub Scouts and Brownies): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition https://www.britannica.com/topic/Spanish-Inquisition
Rockridge – Blazing Saddles
Robin Hood and the Merry Men
Japeth in "Hoodwinked": https://hoodwinked.fandom.com/wiki/Japeth
"Be Prepared", from The Lion King: https://youtu.be/zPUe7O3ODHQ
Queer-coding of Disney villains: https://thetempest.co/2020/06/04/entertainment/disney-villains-gay-queer-coding/
The Ballad of Barry and Freda – Victoria Wood: https://youtu.be/fFI5Jl_IqsE
Havamal verses 1,38 and 60
Ikea
John Keele, Point Pleasant – The Mothman Prophecies https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265349/
Trelleborg Fortress https://en.natmus.dk/museums-and-palaces/trelleborg/
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, year 793 https://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item126532.html#:~:text=The%20entry%20on%20the%20left,and%20whirlwinds%2C%20and%20fiery%20dragons
Vampire Pomeranian from Blade 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLqStlZQ08I
“If you want peace, prepare for war” Si vis Pacem, Para Bellum
“The cold never bothered me anyway.” Let it Go from Frozen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MK7qz13bU
“Blindsides you on some idle Tuesday” Baz Lhurman ‘ Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxEHGAY7LbY
"Unknown unknowns" - it was actually Donald Rumsfeld, not Dick Cheney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
Johari Window: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window
"Dark in here, isn't it?" - Greyhald Spold, wizard, forgot to put airholes in his hiding-from-death box: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Greyhald_Spold
How to find us online
Episode 106 One Day I’ll Fylgjur way
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“Anyhoo” Cyberpunk 2077 https://www.cyberpunk.net/gb/en/
Brazil Nuts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_nut
“A whole thing of tic tacs” paraphrased from The Golden Child (1986) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091129/
“One Day I’ll Fly Away” From Moulin Rouge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N7VK7vHwnw
‘Land on it’ sit on it.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEs8rK5Cqt8
Blackadder III Ink and Incapability: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526724/
The Golden Compass (2007) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385752/
The Grim – the Black Dog portent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_grim
Njal’s Saga https://archive.org/stream/storyofburntnjal00lond/storyofburntnjal00lond_djvu.txt
Fetch, Familiar and Fylgjur: https://exemplore.com/magic/Understanding-the-Fylgjur
Egil’s Saga https://sagadb.org/egils_saga.en
Benty Grange helmet http://collections.museums-sheffield.org.uk/view/objects/asitem/342/38/collections-asc?t:state:flow=bc46ee28-753c-400e-b42c-40df1fecb398
The Tao https://personaltao.com/taoism/taoism-101/
Those little biscuits with the icing on: https://mcvities.co.uk/products/gems
How to find us online
Episode 105 A Seat at Eir’s Hearth
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
"Serenity" (2005) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786
"The Two Ronnies" - would usually end with a (comedic) song and dance routine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Ronnies
"Don't run! We are your friends!" - from "Mars Attacks!" (1996) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116996
"They drew their plans against us" - from "War of the Worlds", by HG Wells
Frithcast Episode 71: The One With Boopbeak In - https://gythainjeans.podbean.com/e/frithcast-episode-71-storytime-the-one-with-boopbeak-in/
Svipdagsmäl (The Ballad of Svipdag) - https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe16.htm
Gylfaginning; Chapter 35: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prose_Edda/Gylfaginning
Skáldskaparmal - https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/pre/pre05.htm (via Sacred Texts - translation not known)
"It depends on who's looking" - from The Mothman Prophecies (2002): https://youtu.be/INtbv3cd1BA
Red Dwarf: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094535/
Blackadder: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084988/
Drop the Dead Donkey: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098781/
NHS List of Mental Health apps: https://www.nhs.uk/apps-library/category/mental-health/
Sound generator apps include:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ambientmixerfree
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.metapps.naturesounds
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.mm.android.ambience
How to find us online
Episode 104 Reciprocity and Gift Giving
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
"Cat rings bell; we eat food" - Eddie Izzard: "Pavlov's Cats"; from Definite Article show: https://youtu.be/lf9Jy9JQgnY
"Stop spelling 'necessary'" - In fact. Mistress Garlick was asked how to stop spelling "recommendation": Terry Pratchett; "Guards! Guards!"
Lex Talionis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_for_an_eye
"Air from my lungs": Doctor Who; "The End of the World" - https://youtu.be/Wm0hG_LjR_Q
Pax Deorum (the Peace of the Gods): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion#pax_deorum
"I bet my shinies will tempt you!" - NPC vendor dialogue from Everquest II (also in our Episode 68)
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings; JRR Tolkien
If you want to look closer at gift giving: https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/17904/1/THESIS%20Csete%20Katona%20Final.pdf
https://www.ssns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Hall_2012_Vol_43_pp_14_25.pdf
https://www.ssns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Durrenberger_1982_Vol_19_pp_23_37.pdf
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=tdr
How to find us online
Episode 103 Rune Spotlight Isa
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Agents of SHIELD : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364582/
Murder Hornets : "Explaining the Pandemic to my Past Self" - Parts 1-4: https://youtu.be/Ms7capx4Cb8 (and three subsequent)
Ice Hotel in Sweden : https://www.icehotel.com/
The Ice Palace, at Jungfraujoch, "The Top of Europe" : https://www.jungfrau.ch/en-gb/jungfraujoch-top-of-europe/
Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, 2010 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull
It wasn't Granny! It was the Silver Horde - a band of elderly barbarians in "Interesting Times". Doing well this time, i'n'I? : https://discworld.com/products/books/interesting-times/
Jadis, the White Witch, Queen of Narnia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion,_the_Witch_and_the_Wardrobe
Mark Antony talks to Pompey and the Patricians - Rome (HBO), S1:E2 : https://youtu.be/Xd_kh3V1aTM
How to find us online
Episode 102 A Trip Around Jorvik II
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney, from freesound.org
Marcus Aurelius - Roman Emperor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius
Rodents Of Unusual Size (ROUSes): https://youtu.be/Nv9CkjkOyzo
Romanes Eunt Domus: https://youtu.be/IIAdHEwiAy8
"And slowly but surely..." - Eve of the War, from Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" - https://youtu.be/Poii8JAbtng (The actual phrase is "slowly and surely".)
Martian Fighting Machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_machine_(The_War_of_the_Worlds)
The Coppergate Helmet (also called the York Helmet): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppergate_Helmet and https://www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/collections/collections-highlights/the-york-helmet/
The Benty Grange Helmet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benty_Grange_helmet
The Sutton Hoo Helmet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo_helmet
The Sock: https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/about/jorvik-artefact-gallery/sock/
Nålbinding (we don't pronounce it right, it seems...): https://spinoffmagazine.com/nalbinding-a-short-history-of-an-ancient-craft/
Lloyds Bank Coprolite: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lloyds-bank-coprolite
How to find us online
Episode 101 A Trip Around Jorvik I
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Ornithopters: In the real world, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter and, in Dune specifically, https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Ornithopter "Delicious Friends": A signature phrase used in the browser game Fallen London, by Failbetter Games, and its standalone spinoffs Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies. https://www.fallenlondon.com/
Mentour Pilot - The online persona of Swedish 737 pilot Petter Hörnfeldt, who creates YouTube videos exploring various aspects of commercial aviation for student pilots, aviation enthusiasts and nervous fliers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwpHKudUkP5tNgmMdexB3ow
Jorvik Viking Festival - Held yearly (outwith global pandemics) by the Jorvik Viking Centre: https://jorvikvikingfestival.co.uk
Modern York: https://www.visityork.org
Jorvik Archaeological Dig at Coppergate (1976-1981): https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/about/jorvik-story/coppergate-dig/
Woodhenge - except I didn't mean Woodhenge; I meant Seahenge, also known as Holme I: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seahenge
"This is the Way" - from "The Mandalorian": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8111088/
York Archaeological Trust: https://www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk
Harris Matrix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_matrix
Bone Skates: https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/about/jorvik-artefact-gallery/ (scroll through artefacts list - you'll see 'em)
Cowrie shell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowrie
Torksey pottery/Torksey ware: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/100398/5/Perry%20(in%20press).pdf (PDF file, will need downloading to read)
Stick or long dice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_dice
Magnetometer/MAD - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetometer
"Cow Tools" - Cartoon by Gary Larson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Tools
Joan of Arc - Sword in a Field: https://youtu.be/w47UQxld7LM (Jeremy Irons wasn't in it, but John Malkovich was.)
York coin stamp: http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/partners/items/viking-coins
How to find us online
As part of our celebrations for reaching our 100th episode, here's a final little extra for you, lovely listeners:
Frithcast Extra – On Ilkley Moor
Things we talk about in this episode:
“These five pieces are worth...one quarter portion.” A line from the lovely Unkar Plutt, in The Force Awakens. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Unkar_Plutt
Grog: a mix of an alcoholic drink and water. There’s a neat little history here: https://vinepair.com/articles/the-definitive-history-of-grog/
Counties, Shires, Hundreds and Wappentakes – current and past names for administrative areas in the UK.
Yorkshire dialect –
Lass – a young girl/young woman. From Old Norse ‘lask’ meaning ‘unmarried’
Lek/ Lekkin – to play. From Old Norse ‘laik’ ‘to play’
The Danelaw – the majority of the North of England, based on the area under Danish/ Scandinavian rule in the Middle Ages, the basis of the cultural north/south divide in England. See here for a short histroy: http://legacy.ashmolean.org/anglosaxondiscovery/vikings/vikings-danelaw.html
Sunday cricket matches – often village teams playing in their own local leagues, but to give you a flavour of what it’s like, head here: https://cricketyorkshire.com/yorkshire-cricket-2018/
Last of the Summer Wine: TV series running from 1973 – 2010 about older people in a Yorkshire village. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069602/ and here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lastofthesummerwine/ Filmed around Holmfirth and it’s surrounds.
Yorkshire coal mines- the coal mining industry was huge in the county of Yorkshire, providing jobs, and in some cases housing for the miners and their families. The industry was nationalised in 1946, and in 1984 the simmering resentment about rates of pay came to a head in a year long strike. Between 1985 and 2015 every pit was shut down, leading to a huge rise in unemployment and anger across the county. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/once-thriving-language-of-the-pits-being-revived-in-yorkshire-coal-mining-exhibition-1-7724590
Bendict Cumberbatch in Dr Strange: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Strange_(2016_film)
You can find lots of recordings of On Ilkla Moor, but Suzanne’s favourite is by the Macclesfield
Male Voice Choir in 2010. In a pub. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rjyo3UjGhY
How to find us online
Presenting our third gift on the occasion of our 100th episode of Frithcast, a repeating chant for Freya: a goddess with so many overlapping aspects, including sex, beauty, death, love and magic.
Accompanying sound effects, as always sourced from Freesound under a creative commons licence. Kate and I hope you enjoy it.
Our second release on the occasion of our 100th episode of Frithcast:
Frithcast Extra: The Names of the Allfather (originally released in 2018)
Drum and chanting track: ‘Jagadamba – Shaman frame drum with Om chanting’ from Freesound.org
We had sudden want to create a piece, reciting the names of the Allfather over layers of Elder Futhark rune names and drums. As usual when you get a sudden instinct, it generally proves longer to actually do the thing than having the thought in the first place.
The names of the Allfather are many – this isn’t a definitive list, we may have unintentionally missed one or two. Generally the list comes from the Gylfanning, which lists about 200 names. You may know the Allfather as the Wanderer, First Husband of Frigg, One-Eyed or The Raven God, but he has many more titles and spheres of influence. You can find a listing of most of his names here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_of_Odin
We leave you with a quote from Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, Kate and I hope you enjoy this.
“This is what they call me. I’m called Glad of War, Grim, Raider and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest and True Guesser. I am Grimnir and I am the Hooded One. I am Allfather, Gondlir Wand Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die.”
(American Gods, Neil Gaiman (2001) Ch6.)
PS We had a little help from the Thargoids… just sayin’ #cantstopthesignal
Episode 100: The Long One
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
We made it to episode 100! Woo! Time for celebratory cake :) Here’s an extra long episode for you, lovely listeners, with some favourite clips and memories from past episodes, some random side quests and a good dollop of the queer geek heathenry that you’ve come to know. We also talk a little bit about what topics we’re thinking of covering in the future, let us know if you’ve got any ideas :)
To say thank you for listening, and some of you have been sat with us around the virtual campfire for a very long time, this is the first part of our celebratory celebrations for today. Keep your eyes (and ears) peeled for a few more goodies from us through today, as a thank you for all our lovely listeners around Midgard :)
Suzanne and Kate
Episode 99 Storytime: A Moderately Bloody Love Story
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“It’s the same thing we do every night” Pinky and the Brain TV cartoon series (1995 - 98) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112123/
Oar fish http://www.seasky.org/deep-sea/oarfish.html
TARDIS: https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/TARDIS
“These are small, those are far away” Father Ted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_(Father_Ted)
Baby Yoda – Grogu, from The Mandalorian https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Grogu
“For me, it was Tuesday” Bison, Street Fighter film 1994 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVzAMmpMra8
Gomez and Morticia from the Addams Family (especially the 1991 film https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101272/)
“Prepare to die” Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/characters/nm0001597
Tome of Set Dungeon in Diablo III: https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Set_Dungeon
Text Scroll, most notably used in the Star Wars films: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Opening_crawl
The theory that Jar Jar Binks is a Sith Lord https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/star-wars-darth-jar-jar-binks-theory-partially-true-says-actor-a6923351.html
Smurfs https://www.smurf.com/
“Three dwarves in a trenchcoat” – paraphrased from ‘Three Coins in a Fountain’ (1954) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047580/
Tolkien’s dwarves: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Dwarves
The Dread Pirate Roberts – from The Princess Bride https://princessbride.fandom.com/wiki/Dread_Pirate_Roberts
Klingon love stories https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Klingon_mating_rituals
“A Dothraki wedding without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair.” Game of Thrones, episode 1, season 1, Illyrio Mopatis https://scatteredquotes.com/dothraki-wedding-without-least/
Grongu-Hrolf is a fairly unique name, and there is someone historical who shares it. The author of this saga is at pains to point out that his story is fiction, and not related to the historical person: https://core.ac.uk/reader/233573430
Grongu-Hrolfs Saga has a lot of powerful men in. A lot. It’s been proposed that this saga is about men and for men, so that they can see power and vulnerability through gender. You can read a summary of a book about it here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/masculinities-in-old-norse-literature/vulnerable-masculinities-and-the-vicissitudes-of-power-in-gonguhrolfs-saga/2D67FA8905CD0E46211094189B14FABC
And that whole feet off, then back on again bit? There’s a paper here that looks at defensiveness in narrators in Icelandic sagas: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/staffpages/uploads/his221/history-or-fiction.pdf
If you’d like to hear this saga/ Suicide Squad mash up, you can head here: https://deadideas.net/2018/08/19/berserkers-viii-finale-suicide-swords-suicide-squad-gongu-hrolfs-saga-mashup-viking-history/
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Episode 98 Ethics: Content vs Creator
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
New York State of Mind – song by Billy Joel: https://www.youtu.be/LnGMcxWmtRA
“An intelligent guard…” - Quote from Titan A.E. (movie, 2000): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120913/characters/nm0001447
CERN – Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire – The European Organisation for Nuclear Research – maintains six particle accelerators, including the high-energy Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest piece of machinery, near Geneva, Switzerland: https://home.cern/
Twenty Past the Hour – A phenomenon popularly associated with, among other claimed causes, the alleged time of death of President Lincoln: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sudden-silences/
Cognitive Bias – Any of a number of perceptional errors that occur due to the tendency of the Human mind to look for patterns and focus more reliably on expected or predicted events than those that don’t conform to expectations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias
The Trolley Problem – A thought experiment in the study of ethics: https://theconversation.com/the-trolley-dilemma-would-you-kill-one-person-to-save-five-57111
Bombs on the Ferries – The Dark Knight (movie, 2008): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/
The Prisoner’s Dilemma - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prisoner-dilemma/
Content Versus Creator – Video essayist Lindsay Ellis produced two videos addressing the concept of “Death of the Author”, which is the idea that, once a work is released to the public, the author no longer has any authority over its meaning or interpretation. Lindsay subsequently created a follow-up video addressing the different but related question of whether a troublesome creator can truly be separated from their work: https://youtu.be/NViZYL-U8s0
Lindsay created the above video in relation to the JK Rowling Transgender Comments Controversy, as broken down here by, and from the view of, Glamour: https://www.glamour.com/story/a-complete-breakdown-of-the-jk-rowling-transgender-comments-controversy
The Ship of Theseus – an ancient thought experiment that asks whether and for how long a thing (in the case of the experiment, a ship) remains the same item if all its component parts are progressively replaced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Graham Linehan – co-writer of TV series Father Ted and dedicated social media campaigner against transgender people: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Graham_Linehan
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Episode 97: First Steps in Studying Runes
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“Land on it, sit on it” RSC with Prince Charles and Benedict Cumberbatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEs8rK5Cqt8
Seven of Nine, from Star Trek: Voyager https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Seven_of_Nine
“It’s goodnight from her, and...” paraphrased from The Two Ronnies
The Runic Alphabets: https://omniglot.com/writing/runic.htm
The Rune Poems https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rune_poems
The Thames Scramseax: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1857-0623-1
The Kylver Runestone (G88): http://www.worldtreeproject.org/document/1321
Vampires and poppy seeds: http://dracula.cc/vampires_traits/
Segway: https://www.segway.com/
Some co-opted runes used by far-right organisations, white supremacists and exclusionary heathens can be found here: https://www.hatecrimescotland.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Hate-Signs-and-Symbols-guide-for-European-football_2016-.pdf
“The minor fall and the major lift” Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen
This episode has a lot of Suzanne’s own experience in learning about runes. Use what is useful to you in your own practice. When you study runes, they are introspective and you’ll end up looking long and hard at your own self. Be kind to yourself as you learn, take time you need to process or reprocess things as they come up.
How to find us online
Episode 96 – Random Reel IV
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Four Years. We’ve been doing Frithcast for four whole years. You’ve been listening to a Heathen and a coffee-powered Druid chatter on about modern heathenry with a good sprinkling of queer and geekery for four years. And you, lovely listeners, are the reason that we have. So, we’d like to say thank you, in the only way that we can: to celebrate our fourth birthday, we’d like to present you with a very special episode. As last years random reel, we present clips of some of the funny moments, randomness and bloopers that didn’t quite make it to the episodes. No shownotes this time, you’ve earned a break.
A Shortage of Stormtroopers
Angelina Duck
Click
Crinkle Shaming
Dancing with Charles
Disturbia
Einstein in Tights
Forgot the Thing
Kate is a total lush
Kate’s two things
Morn Norm
Polished Garnets Shine
Symposiorgy
That Trailer Thing
The Knights of Mouse
Tribble Highlanders
Thank you from us to you, we hope you enjoy, and carry on listening :)
Suzanne and Kate
Episode 95 – The Wild Hunt
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Additional sound effects from Ambient Mixer
Opening quote from Branston, Brian. 1974. The Lost Gods of England. p. 94. From the Peterborough Chronicle in 1127.
Manan Manan from the Muppets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ
Ghost Riders in the Sky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fhy8o7ufi8
Ghost Rider (2007) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259324/
“The first rule of…” From Fight Club (1999) https://lithub.com/everyone-misunderstands-the-point-of-fight-club/
The Wickerman remake https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450345/
Covered in bees: Eddie Izzard
Flaming Queens - https://glosbe.com/en/en/flaming%20queen
Flaming Lips https://www.flaminglips.com/
The Battle of Stamford Bridge: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/The-Battle-of-Stamford-Bridge/
The Wild Hunt legends, https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/omen-odin-wild-hunt-thundered-across-european-skies-bringing-calamity-and-doom-021618 here’s the ones from Orkney: http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/hunt.htm
Jacob Grimm – first defined it as a Germanic Pagan Tradition in 1835
Diana and Nemuralia: http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/08/nemoralia-festival-of-diana.html
“When I was younger, so much younger than today” Help, by the Beatles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q_ZzBGPdqE&list=PLdFVES8fU1kM1GZbA5bB4lIKLWQOAqHQM
Robin, the Hooded Man and Herne https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/Guide/RobinOfSherwood.htm
The painting – The Wild Hunt of Odin (1872) by Peter Arbo
The Prometheus School of Running Away from Things: https://cinemasins.fandom.com/wiki/Prometheus_School_of_Running_Away_from_Things
How to find us online
Closing reading: "When the winter winds blow and the Yule fires are lit, it is best to stay indoors, safely shut away from the dark paths and the wild heaths. Those who wander out by themselves during the Yule-nights may hear a sudden rustling through the tops of the trees - a rustling that might be the wind, though the rest of the wood is still.
"But then the barking of dogs fills the air, and the host of wild souls sweeps down, fire flashing from the eyes of the black hounds and the hooves of the black horses" Kveldulf Hagen Gundarsson (Mountain Thunder)
Episode 94 – Skathi
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
"I was nowhere near the cottage..." - 'The Black Adder', episode 1 "The Foretelling": https://blackadderquotes.com/blackadder-series-1-episode-1-full-script
Saturn's Norse group of Moons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_Norse_group_of_satellites
Skadi Rowing Club, Rotterdam: https://www.skadi.nl/ (in Dutch - your browser may offer translation)
Shepherd Moon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd_moon
Clannad: https://www.clannad.ie/ ('Robin, the Hooded Man' is on their 1984 album 'Legend', which serves as the soundtrack for the ITV series 'Robin of Sherwood')
Enya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enya (own website is at enya.com but as of November 2020 appears offline)
Lex Talionis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_for_an_eye
Galileo: objects of different weight (assuming all other factors remain equal) will accelerate at the same rate when in freefall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%27s_Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa_experiment
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya / I want my father back" - Slightly different from how I remember it but the same basic principle: https://youtu.be/kRAI9_MkmBM
How to find us online
Episode 93 – Your Move: Tafl and Chess
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Knightmare: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193677/
Clan Lasombre https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Lasombra
300 Spartans at Thermopylae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae
Empire Total War https://www.totalwar.com/blog/the-empire/
Guild Wars 2 https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/the-game/
Risk https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/181/risk
Monopoly https://monopoly.hasbro.com/en-gb
Whalebone plaque from Scar Boat Burial http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/scarboat/plaqueimage.htm
Dwarf Bread https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Dwarf_Bread
“I believe that children are our future” Whitnet Houston The Greatest Love of All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYzlVDlE72w
‘I believe for every drop of rain that falls’- Mahalia Jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOXHvnSeoAo
I would like to take you on a journey – Rocky Horror Picture Show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073629/
Torshavn https://www.alongdustyroads.com/posts/things-to-do-in-torshavn-faroe-islands
Scottish Tablet https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/scottish-tablet
Linnaeus observing the rules and writing them down: https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/mathematics/viking-chess-a-game-we-know-thanks-to-linnaeus/
Fluxx https://www.looneylabs.com/games/fluxx
Cards Against Humanity https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/
Lunch Money https://www.atlas-games.com/product_tables/AG1100
Gother Than Thou https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/698/gother-thou
Munchkin https://munchkin.game/products/games/munchkin/
Tafl mentioned as the top boast of Earl Ragnvald of Orkney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6gnvald_Kali_Kolsson
Odin as the riddle setter Gestumblindi with some riddles set around Tafl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestumblindi
Ian McShane’s character arc in Game of Thrones https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Ray
The complete set found in Torksey in Lincolnshire in September 2020 (found by a metal detectorist and sold at auction): https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/27239/20200909/viking-chess-lincolnshire.htm
4 versions of the Tafl game: http://tafl.cyningstan.com/post/1276/four-schools-of-hnefatafl
Good PDF intro to the game: http://hem.bredband.net/b512479/Hnefatafl_by_Sten_Helmfrid.pdf
Birka grave 523 Tafl pieces: https://www.tillermanbeads.co.uk/onlineshop/prod_3846997-Hnefatafl-kingpiece-from-Birka-grave-523.html
List of Tafl pieces and boards:http://tafl.cyningstan.com/page/92/archaeological-finds
Board games of the Vikings: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/268146544.pdf
Isle of Lewis Chessmen https://blog.britishmuseum.org/check-it-out-the-lewis-chessmen/
Recent discovery of Isle of Lewis Chessman: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-48824712
World Quickplay Tafl Championships: https://www.fetlar.org/hnefatafl and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Zy-gIrU20
Thud by Sir Terry Pratchett https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Thud!
Tri-Dimensional chess from Star Trek https://www.chessvariants.com/3d.dir/startrek.html
How to find us online
Episode 92 – The Dark of the Night: Draugr and the Dead
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
AA Milne – author of Winnie the Pooh: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Winnie_the_Pooh
Prow-dragon – a figurehead that was fitted to ships prows to scare the landspirits for the lands targeted by raiders. Care was taken to take them off when returning home as not to scare the landspirits of the homeleands.
Stargate the film: (1994) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/
Sebastian from The Little Mermaid (1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097757/
Doppelganger: https://www.bustle.com/articles/180838-5-creepy-facts-about-doppelgangers-because-theyre-more-common-than-youd-think
‘Gang Aft Aglaey’ – Robert Burns poem ‘To a Mouse’
The burial space as a house: Thorstein is invited to the home of the dead in Þorsteins ááttr uxafots
Birds flying over draugr barrows and dying: flying over Thorolfs grave: Curran, Bob (2005). Vampires: A Field Guide to the Creatures that Stalk the Night. Career Press. pp. 81–93.
Cattle being driven mad by going near barrows with draugr in: ibid
Draugr going into the earth: Hrapp in Laxdaela Saga
Dr Who (Sylvester McCoy) episodes ‘Curse of Fenric’ https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Curse_of_Fenric_(TV_story)
The shepherd defending against a draugr and being turned into one: Eyrbyggja saga
Draugr riding a house: Grettirs Saga
Lasombre, Tremere and Tzimiche – from White Wolf Vampire role play system
Tying toes with twine (and other precautions): H.F. Feilberg, "The Corpse-Door: A Danish Survival," in Folklore 18 (1907), p. 366
Corpse -doors: H.F. Feilberg, "The Corpse-Door: A Danish Survival," in Folklore 18 (1907), p. 366
Eyrbyggja saga – the ‘door doom’ or boring the undead with lawyers.
Foxfire or flames on a Draugr barrow: Grettirs Saga – Grettir sees a flame on the barrow of Kar the Old.
Beowulf parallels: Chadwick “The Monsters and Beowulf.” In The Anglo-Saxons: Studies in Some Aspects of Their History and Culture Presented to Bruce Dickens. Ed. by Peter Clemoes. London: Bowes and Bowes. pp. 171-203.
and
Nicholas K. Kiessling, "Grendel: A New Aspect," Modern Philology, 65 (1968), p. 201
and
Viking Answer Lady http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ghosts.shtml
The draugr who gloms his friends ear off: the story of Arum and Asmund: Palsson and Edwards, "Egils saga einhenda ok Asmundar saga berserkjabana," in Gautrek's Saga and Other Medieval Tales, pp. 99-101
There’s other sources that talk about the Norse restless dead:
Chadwick, N. K. (1946). "Norse ghosts: A study in the Draugr and the Haugbúi". Folklore. 57 (2): 50–65.
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ghosts.shtml
Hilda Ellis-Davidson, "The Hill of the Dragon: Anglo-Saxon Burial Mounds in Literature and Archaeology," in Folklore 64(1950), pp. 173-174
How to find us online
Episode 91 – Funerary Customs then and now
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Objects in the Rear View Mirror – Meatloaf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jPMv9zJ1LE
Oseberg: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/
Sutton Hoo https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries/sutton-hoo-and-europe
Scar boat burial http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/scarboat/index.html
Gokstad boat burial https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/gokstad/
BJ581 - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/viking-warrior-women-reassessing-birka-chamber-grave-bj581/7CC691F69FAE51DDE905D27E049FADCD
Bratislava https://www.visitbratislava.com/
Brassica: the mustard family: https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-plants-in-the-family-Brassicaceae-2004620
Prittlewell Prince https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/new-secrets-from-prittlewell-reconstructing-a-burial-chamber-fit-for-a-prince.htm
Ibd Fadlan’s account of a Rus chieftains burial: https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199906/among.the.norse.tribes-the.remarkable.account.of.ibn.fadlan.htm
Anglo-Saxon memorial inscriptions in runes: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/frag/9772151.0006.004/--runes-and-commemoration-in-anglo-saxon-england?rgn=main;view=fulltext
Guide to what you can place in a coffin: https://www.funeralguide.co.uk/help-resources/arranging-a-funeral/funeral-guides/what-can-you-put-in-a-coffin
And some funeral alternatives: https://www.funeralinspirations.co.uk/burial/#Live_and_die_majestically
Memorial at St Mary Axe, London:https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tomb-of-the-unknown-london-girl
Weapons ritually destroyed in graves: https://www.medievalists.net/2019/05/charisma-violence-and-weapons-the-broken-swords-of-the-vikings/
Here are modern pics of burial recreations done by a viking reenactment group : https://www.facebook.com/andrimners/posts/we-are-dead-serious-about-reenactment-2017-andrimners-hemtagarethese-pictures-ar/1660523900917013/
Regia Anglorum did a take on what modern grave goods might look like: https://www.facebook.com/regiaanglorum/posts/who-says-you-cant-take-it-with-you-so-much-about-what-we-know-concerning-the-ear/1434434423428532/
How to find us online
Episode 90 – Storytime: Simba, Prince of Denmark
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Bond Girls: https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2482784/bond-girls-the-12-most-iconic-women-from-james-bond-movies
Carrots, history of http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history.html
Amleth, from Saxo Grammaticus https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/saxos-legend-of-amleth-in-the-gesta-danorum
Hamlet, the Shakespeare play https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/shakespeares-plays/hamlet/
The Lion King (1994) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110357/
“Are they both not left handed?” - reference to the Princess Bride (1987) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/
Interesting Times: Sir Terry Pratchett https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Interesting_Times
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – play by Tom Stoppard https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/rosencrantz/
The Orbs of the Prophets: Star Trek Deep Space 9 https://federationnewsservice.fandom.com/wiki/Orbs_of_the_Prophets
Welcome to the House of Gowron, Star Trek, especially Next Generation and Deep Space 9.
Brian Blessed, actor https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000306/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
“What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice...” https://www.enotes.com/topics/marmion/quotes/oh-what-tangled-web-we-weave-when-first-we
Shredded Wheat https://www.nestle-cereals.com/uk/en/products-promotions/brands/shredded-wheat-brand
Mary, Queen of Scots https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Mary-Queen-of-Scots/
Scarlett Johansen, actress who played Black Widow in the MCU: https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Widow
Red Shirts – Star Trek security, commonly unknown characters who are killed to increase the stakes for the main characters survival. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Redshirt
How to find us online
Episode 89 – Idunna and Her Apples
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“She is a woman” Blackadder ‘Bells’ Season 2
“There are five lights!” Captain Picard, Star Trek TNG, two-part episode ‘Chain of Command’
Frithcast Episode 63 – The Case of the Missing Apples
Frithcast episode 22 – Can the Mountains Love the Sea?
Tacitus – Germania “They cut a branch from a fruit (nut) bearing tree”
Eostre – the one reference from Bede http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/bede_on_eostre.htm
Idunn Mons – volcano on Venus
Olympus Mons
Hebe – Greek Goddess of youth https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/goddesses/hebe/
Bucket of apples at Oseberg https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/btbcpk/oseberg_bucket_norway_ca_ad_1200_found_on_the/
Atalanta and Milanion’s foot race with golden apples: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Atalanta
The golden apple that starts the Trojan War https://aphrodite101.weebly.com/the-golden-apple---how-the-trojan-war-began.html
Hera also has a sacred tree which grows golden apples
Eris (the planet) moon Dysnomia https://www.universetoday.com/40698/dysnomia/
The Silver Bough with Golden Apples from Irish Mythology: https://mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Silver_Branch
William Butler-Yeats ‘The Song of the Wandering Aengus’: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55687/the-song-of-wandering-aengus
‘The Goblin Market’poem by Christina Rossetti: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market
If you’d like to listen to a BBC radio adaptation of her tale, it’s here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4Q7GBN2MWz5Wz3QR1my6Hjf/viking-sagas-the-apples-of-iduna
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Episode 87b – Here’s 14 words for you - NSFW
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Political ideology through symbols and coded words is really difficult to untangle, you can hear Kate and I struggling to define aspects, signals and markers through this episode. What we’re talking about here is the overlap between exclusionary ideologies of far right politics and exclusionary, or folkish, heathenism. A group may choose to take symbolism from mainstream heathenry, adapt promote and use it so that it becomes associated with those loud, vocal ideologies. Sometimes the symbols and code words are more subtle and inverted.
Some symbols are easy to spot, such as those associated with 1940’s Nazi political ideology, like the single or double lightning bolt, the totenkopf or the Aryan Fist. Some come from other political far right ideologies, like the Arrow Cross, from the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party.
Others are more modern, like the use of 14/88, a Thor’s hammer with the initials BFG in the design (from Bound for Glory, a white power music band) or the Identitarian Lambda.
Hate groups will often loudly deny that they are hate groups. Which makes it difficult for a solo inclusive heathen to find a group and become part of a community without knowing for sure that the members aren’t racist, ableist, homophobic, identitarian or any other form of discrimination. Some groups will claim to be inclusive, but act exclusionary in their stance and politics. Some of this can be very subtle, so even harder to detect and draw a line to defend your own principles and values.
You can find a hate group symbols database maintained by the ADL here: https://www.adl.org/hate-symbols?cat_id%5B146%5D=146
And an article on dog whistles here: https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/11/7/13549154/dog-whistles-campaign-racism
Some symbols can also be used by inclusive heathens, so care needs to be taken as to the context. Groups may use a single rune, such as Tiwaz or Othala. On their own, the use may be just fine, but it may also be indicative of an ideology if it’s seen in connection with other symbols, images and words.
The understanding of ‘sea-lioning’ as an exercise in ‘bad faith’ questions in which the questioner puts the burden of their education onto the other can be found here: http://www.ethicsandculture.com/blog/2016/beware-the-sea-lion
There’s also some good articles here about the overlap of the far-right and modern heathenry:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/asatru-heathenry-racism/543864/
https://www.spiralnature.com/culture/heathens-nazi-problem/
https://bluefaceddruid.blogspot.com/2017/08/stephen-flowers-aka-edred-thorssons.html
https://godsandradicals.org/2016/04/06/rainbow-heathenry-is-a-left-wing-multicultural-asatru-possible/
If the history of our faith is something you want to get into, there’s Norse Revival by Stefanie von Schnurbein (Studies in Critical Research in Religion, Brill Publishing)
And, just as your understanding of Heathenry can shift, so can other people. People whose social media accounts you had linked to may step away from your own understandings, so be mindful of the content they choose to share and create.
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Episode 87 – Music and Songs – then and now
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Ha-ha – Nelson Mandela Muntz from the Simpsons https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Nelson_Muntz
Born to Rune – A inscription on a leather jacket, belonging to the Dean, Discworld. https://discworldtour.tumblr.com/post/172515137242/i-see-you-have-your-born-to-rune-jacket-on
Red Dwarf (TV series 1988 - ) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094535/
Archaeological evidence for Viking music and singing:
Bone flutes – found in Scandinavia you can see and hear examples here http://www.ancientmusic.co.uk/wind.html
Cow horn/ blowing horn - you can hear three sizes being played here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW3Oot-lpHs
Sheep/goat horns with finger holes
Block Pipes from Jorvik – you can see steps to making a replica here: http://www.panflutejedi.com/viking-pan-flute-tutorial.html and hear one being played here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqBJudLYFsY
Lyre – esp ones from Sutton Hoo, Prittlewell, Taplow. You can see replica ones for sale here, and hear them being played: http://www.michaeljking.com/viking-lyre.htm
Lyre tuning key from Sigtuna (with runic inscription)
Bukkehorn – used in the soundtrack from Frozen (2013) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyRNX4onS8cwcvgld7Mil_0WwgTJzuDP0
https://www.followthevikings.com/discover/culture/music
Singing and music references:
Gerald of Wales – “Description of Wales” two-tone singing in Yorkshire and Northumbria
Ibn Fadlan – the Rus funeral description
Saxo Grammaticus – description of a lyre player affecting mood
Ibn Ahmad – visited Hedeby, (didn’t reckon much to the singing)
Oldest musical notation – c. 1300, written in runes with sheet music “I dreamt a dream” https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Dr%C3%B8mte_mig_en_dr%C3%B8m_i_nat
Saga of Erik the Red – Chapter 4 – the seeress visits and needs a special chant to be able to prophesy.
Musicians, groups and singers who use ancient instruments/sounds:
Danheim https://danheimmusic.com/viking-age-instruments/
Heilung https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Jvz7FpBsY73_wEjFV67wQ
Wardruna http://www.wardruna.com/
(There's also a neat page here, that relates band styles to each other, here's the music map for Wardruna to help explore other music that you might like https://www.music-map.com/wardruna)
Forndom https://www.forndom.com/
Kate and Corwin - http://ancientmusic.co.uk/instruments.html
Musicians, groups and singers evoking the same:
Nordic Noir - https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/groupa/7-nordic-noir-artists-to-chill-your-bones/#7-groupa
Eluveitie – Evocation I: Arcane Dominion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evocation_I:_The_Arcane_Dominion
Sigur Ros – Icelandic, quiet, contemplative. https://sigurros.com/
Bob Falkenstein – Hammer of Bronze album: https://open.spotify.com/album/2wBYA1G8qIVleVARk0p6eu
Blog from Starlight Witch exploring norse pagan music: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/starlight/2018/08/norse-pagan-music/
Modern Heathen chants and songs:
https://www.northernpaganism.org/general/music.html
http://www.odins-gift.com/wichtig/heathenmusic.htm (includes a heathen songbook)
That track that Kate loves – Rodrigo e Gabriella live: Diablo Rojo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT9hvyDvKHA (and here’s The Soundmaker live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UPHFjHvGvY)
There’s also a section on Viking music and instruments in ‘Heathen Garb and Gear’ by Ben Waggoner (The Troth)
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Episode 86 – Let’s Talk Bling
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“Today is my day” Mr Wednesday, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods https://americangods.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Wednesday
Jason Momoa – Actor: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0597388/
Cause of Death: Gal Gadot leaning on a Cadillac (This tweet from ScaryKrystal in 2017: https://twitter.com/scarykrystal/status/936385274984022016)
Every Breath You Take – The Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs
Where everybody knows your name – Theme tune of Cheers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-mi0r0LpXo
Marcus Aurelius – Meditations http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html
Cracked: https://www.cracked.com/
“Rum is a vile drink that turns...” Elizabeth Swan, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (film 2003) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325980/
Segway:http://www.segway.com/
The Last Train – (TV Series 1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195471/
If I Were a Rich Man - Fiddler on the Roof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBHZFYpQ6nc
Money Money Money – Abba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxmCCsMoD0
Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend – from Moulin Rouge (2001) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1REfTIc5po
“These Bleeds” outtakes from Cannonball Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avis_OWEZlI
Infinity Stone – from the Marvel Cinematic Universe https://time.com/5227586/mcu-six-infinity-stones/
CBDR – Constant Bearing Decreasing Range – term from flying aircraft: https://www.visualexpert.com/Resources/crashcourse.html
“That was a sword in a field” The Messenger: Joan of Arc (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151137/
BJ581: Here’s the 2019 paper which set the whole discussion off: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/viking-warrior-women-reassessing-birka-chamber-grave-bj581/7CC691F69FAE51DDE905D27E049FADCD
Turkish evil eye wards, also known as the Nazar Boncuk charm: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/59qwd8/i-accidentally-gave-myself-the-evil-eye
Viking Age bead manufacturing sites include: York, Lincoln, Gloucester, Kaupang, Ribe, Birka, Truso, Hedeby.
The Goblin Market: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market
“Pots equal people” - the predominant UK archaeological theory in the 1960’s, which stated that where specific material culture was found, there was settlement of those people.
The Beaker People: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/february/the-beaker-people-a-new-population-for-ancient-britain.html
Funerary deposits with beads: Grave 1 Westness, Orkney; Cnip Burial A, Scotland; Hillswick (bead cache) Scotland; the seal tooth bead from Birsay in Orkney, Peel Castle burial. The two male sites are: Townfoot Farm grave 3 and Ship Street, Dublin.
Triffids - from Day of the Triffids (book, TV Series and film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids
Orkney silver jewellery – Ortak: https://www.ortak.co.uk/ Aurora Orkney https://www.aurora-jewellery.com/ Sheila Fleet: https://sheilafleet.com/ Celina Rupp: https://www.celinaruppjewellery.co.uk/ and more listed on Creative Orkney: https://www.creative-orkney.com/members/jewellery
Sword Bead sites: Wiltshire: Petersfinger grave 20 and 21, Kent: Riseley Horton grave 86. (also known as Life Amulets or Life Stones)
Kormak’s Saga: fullsaga here: https://sagadb.org/kormaks_saga.en
Not this Kormac: https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Kormac
Hawk the Slayer (Film 1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080846/
Ladyhawke (film 1985) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089457/
Zorb – large inflatable ball that a person can move inside of: http://www.zorbballz.co.uk/
Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones (film 2002) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121765/
Tillerman Beads: (this is their Viking beads section, but they do other periods too) take a look to see the original colours and patterns as new (sometimes archaeological examples are faded, scratched or broken) https://www.tillermanbeads.co.uk/onlineshop/cat_428644-D-Vikingera-Beads.html
The Viking Dragon: (more replica beads, if you’re leaning closer to authentic, steer away from the amber chips!) https://thevikingdragon.com/collections/viking-beads
Runecast Copper: for hair beads (and awesome shiny jewellery): https://runecastcopper.com/collections/hair-beads
If you’d really like to get into this, there’s a Masters Thesis available here as a pdf: http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8571/1/Megan%20Hickey%20MA%20Final%20Dissertation%202014.pdf
And there’s a good section on beads in the book ‘Heathen Garb and Gear: ritual dress, tools and art for the practice of Germanic Heathenry’ by Ben Waggoner
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Episode 85 – Runic Inscriptions at Maeshowe
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Waiting for Godot: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-waiting-for-godot
Bacchus https://mythology.net/roman/roman-gods/bacchus/
MIFFS Podcast: https://miffs.podbean.com/
“There is no Spoon” From The Matrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXtO5dMqEI
Orkney Islands: https://www.orkney.com/
Three little side alcoves from school are we – paraphrased from Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikaido: https://www.broadwaybox.com/daily-scoop/10-performances-of-three-little-maids-from-school-from-the-mikad/
Three little side alcoves for the elven kings under the sky – paraphrased from Lord of the Rings, the rings of power: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Rings_of_Power
Orkneyinga Saga Chapter 93: The whole saga is here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57723/57723-h/57723-h.htm#h3-XI
GIUK Gap https://military.wikia.org/wiki/GIUK_gap
Churchill Barriers https://www.orkney.com/listings/churchill-barriers
That particular place that Kate can’t name on a family show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twatt,_Orkney (There’s also one in Shetland)
(It’s not on the floor round the bottom of a pillar, but on the marble balcony edge) Runic graffiti in the Hagia Sophia: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/viking-runes-at-hagia-sophia
Runic inscription on the Piraeus Lion:http://viking.archeurope.info/index.php?page=the-lion-from-piraeus
Here’s some pages to help you explore the inscriptions further:
http://www.odinorkney.com/pages/maeshowe/runes.html
https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/from-tablet-to-tablet/final-projects/runic-graffiti-at-maeshowe-orkney-katie-rokakis-13
https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue47/8/index.html
If you’d like to really go all out, here’s an open access thesis on the inscriptions from 2012: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/251932
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Episode 84 – An Exploration of Oseberg part II
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Sweets for my Sweet – The Searchers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tnqnXJl9qE
Candyman (1992) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103919/
Sweet Dreams are Made of These – Eurythmics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg&list=PLDVkITmehl2vvTE7k-65zfdDWC3JluPmU
Tom Hiddleston in that suit: Loki in Avengers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvqWlRBV81M
“I like to move it, move it” – King Julian from Madagascar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApuFuuCJc3s
Dr Julian Bashir from Deep Space 9: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Julian_Bashir
Alexander Siddig, actor: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796502/
Falling with style – Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhVLgTsoMhQ
Imperial March – Star Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8
Cobra Mark III – Elite Dangerous: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Cobra_MkIII
JK Rowling and her anti-Trans views: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/06/jk-rowling-transphobic-trans-hollywood-reacts-1202236865/
Santa Glug – Everquest II https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Santa_Glug
The Oseberg Bucket (and the Buddha Bucket) https://www.academia.edu/30935667/A_GOD_BY_ANY_OTHER_NAME_Cernunnos_Christ_Buddha_and_the_Oseberg_Bucket
“The dead don’t bury themselves.” One of Suzanne’s old funerary archaeology lecturers, Mike Parker-Pearson.
The Royal Burials at Ur - https://www.world-archaeology.com/great-discoveries/royal-tombs-of-ur/
Shabti dolls in Egyptian burials: https://www.ancient.eu/article/119/shabti-dolls-the-workforce-in-the-afterlife/
The Buddha Bucket https://www.vikingrune.com/2009/08/oseberg-buddha/ (Suzanne remembered it slightly wrong, the bucket image has crossed legs, the Gundestrup figure isn’t quite the same)
The Gundestrup Cauldron figure:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/gundestrup-cauldron-largest-and-most-exquisite-iron-age-silver-work-europe-020989
The Hanged Man from the Rider-Waite Deck: https://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/the-hanged-man/universal-waite
Crossed legs in Crusader monuments: http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2016/02/cross-your-legs-and-hope-to-die-what.html
The Buddha from Helgo: http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viking-age-buddha/
5 Zoomorphic posts, made from maple: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/five-exquisite-animal-heads/index.html
Gokstad tiller critter: https://uh.edu/engines/epi2282.htm
Gokstad footprints:https://sciencenorway.no/forskningno-norway-ocean-voyages/dealing-with-the-doldrums-on-a-viking-voyage/1385263
“Deep Ritual Significance” Ssssh, and Suzanne will tell you a secret: archaeologists use this phrase a lot. It generally means, ‘we know it’s important, but we have no idea what it is/ why’
Tablet Weaving found at Oseberg: https://www.shelaghlewins.com/tablet_weaving/Oseberg_tablet/Oseberg_tablet.htm
Hugo Weaving, actor: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915989/
Persian Silk found at Oseberg: https://partner.sciencenorway.no/forskningno-norway-partner/norwegian-vikings-purchased-silk-from-persia/1392616
Preserving Oseberg: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/saving-oseberg/index.html
Roman Lime Concrete: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/why-modern-mortar-crumbles-roman-concrete-lasts-millennia
Pillboxes – WWII gun emplacements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_hardened_field_defences_of_World_War_II
Roman city scan: https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/buried-roman-city-reveals-its-secrets-with-new-3d-technique-1.1031258
British Museum virtual tour of the Early Europe Room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaYYxVWruB8
The Ghost that goes ‘Shhhhh’… and Tobin’s Spirit Guide partwork – Ghostbusters: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/
Viking Ship Museum exhibition: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/
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Episode 83 – An Exploration of Oseberg part 1
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“What do we say to our visitor?” Joyce Grenfell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXhHFgDRNBQ
Assassins Creed Black Flag https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag/
Psychoreactive landscape – a landscape which changes to represent an individuals thoughts and moods.
Imperial Clipper – ship in Elite Dangerous https://www.elitedangerous.com/
“and it’s good night from her” Paraphrased from The Two Ronnies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CU5UPi7STk
“and we’re wearing sunglasses.” The Blues Brothers https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455/
Coronation Street https://www.itv.com/coronationstreet
“Tonight, Matthew I’m going to be...” Catchphrase from Stars in their Eyes: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200379/
The Oseberg Ship burial, here are some sites: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/ and http://irisharchaeology.ie/2012/09/the-oseberg-viking-ship-burial/ and https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2020/01/viking-ships-buried-clues-may-reveal-identities-mystery-women
Naming convention in Archaeology – how types are named – like Samian Ware (Terra Sigilata) highly recognisable Roman pottery http://www.newarchaeology.com/samian/
Hoards found the in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hoards_in_Great_Britain
“This is not the hoard you’re looking for…” paraphrased from Star Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnjaUoR15dU
The Tunguska Event, 1908: https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30jun_tunguska
LIDAR in archaeology: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/archaeology/lasers-lidar-driving-revolution-archaeology/
Magnetometers https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/techniques-magnetometry
Lara Croft: https://tombraider.fandom.com/wiki/Lara_Croft
Prehistoric Barrows: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/iha-prehistoric-barrows-burial-mounds/
Anaerobic preservation of organic material in archaeology: there’s a lovely PDF here of archaeological preservation and assessment techniques: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/preserving-archaeological-remains/heag100c-appendix2-preservation-assessment-techniques/
Peat Bog Bodies- Teh Tollund Man is a good place ot start: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/europe-bog-bodies-reveal-secrets-180962770/
Danish Bronze Age coffins: https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-bronze-age/the-people-in-the-bronze-age-barrows/
The Jorvik Sock: Viking Age, Naalbound sock, found at the Jorvik excavation: https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/about/jorvik-artefact-gallery/sock/
The Egyptian sock (British Museum) https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA53913
Peruvian dessicated mummies: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/fascinating-afterlife-perus-mummies-180956319/
The guy from the Last Crusade who picked the wrong goblet… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA7J0KkanzM
Warriors on sticks – Frithcast episode 6 (retelling of Beowulf)
Munchings and Crunchings – Gurgi, The Black Cauldron: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Gurgi
Viking sails: made from wool or linen: https://www.danishnet.com/vikings/viking-sails/
Guild Wars 2: https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/
Excarnation – the practice of sky or platform burial
Roman tombs (if you were rich) https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/rome/0/steps/27647
Greek burial practice https://basicfunerals.ca/cultural-funerals/history-greek-funerals/
The Ship of Theseus (metephysics of identity) https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/Book%3A_Ancient_Philosophy_Reader_(Levin)/01%3A_The_Start_of_Western_Philosophy_and_the_Pre-Socratics/1.01%3A_Introduction_to_Philosophy_and_the_Ship_of_Theseus
30-50 feral hogs meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-50-feral-hogs
BJ581: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/viking-warrior-women-reassessing-birka-chamber-grave-bj581/7CC691F69FAE51DDE905D27E049FADCD
How to find us online
Episode 82 – Mimir and Memory
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“One for the lasagne, one for me” – Garfield - https://tinyurl.com/y8r95svk
“One for you, six for me.” - Quark and Rom on payday, Star Trek Deep Space 9, episode ‘The Homecoming’
Beowulf – the very first word: Hwaet! https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/listen-beowulf-opening-line-misinterpreted-for-200-years-8921027.html
Seamus Heaney’s version, which starts with ‘so’, you can hear the poet reading his own work here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaB0trCztM0
Audi – Latin imperative form of ‘to listen’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_alteram_partem
Ingimundr – Guthmundar Bishops Saga – the wandering book chest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%B0mundar_saga_biskups
Icelandic Church history – the hunger-stirrer/ Here’s the link to the book: https://tinyurl.com/yala6zvx
Chapter 3: Writing as a means against oblivion.
That bee thing: ‘cella’ Jons Saga Helga – here is info on the titular Jon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_%C3%96gmundsson
Casks of Amontillado – Edgar Allan Poe: https://www.poemuseum.org/the-cask-of-amontillado
Munin, raven of Odin: https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/hugin-and-munin/
Havamal verses: about wisdom and memory https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html look at verses 5, 6, 10, 18 and 75
Memorials at death https://www.lifeinnorway.net/viking-funeral/
Skalskaparmal – writing guards against forgetting - https://is.cuni.cz/studium/predmety/index.php?do=download&did=62028&kod=ARL100252
The Kings Mirror – socratic question and answer format – conversations are written down so they aren’t forgotten http://oaks.nvg.org/kingly-mirror.html
Mimir – hostage exchanged from the Aesir to the Vanir, decapitated by them. https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/mimir/
Goliath and the Nephelim – giants in Abrahamic stories https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/hebrew-bible/who-are-the-nephilim/
Mimir’s Well: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mimisbrunnr
The course Kate took on procedurally generated memory: "The Mind is Flat" – a short course available at intervals on Futurelearn. Futurelearn courses can be undertaken for free (or you can pay for a certificate) https://www.futurelearn.com/
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – film, books, radio, all slightly different stories with the same major events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
The reliability of eyewitness testimony in court cases: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/teaching/myth-eyewitness-testimony-is-the-best-kind-of-evidence.html
How to find us online
Episode 81 – Storytime: Gifts for the Gods
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- (Passive) Resistance is futile – repeated catchphrase from the Borg, Star Trek Universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg
- “Well, that escalated quickly” From Anchorman – the Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/that-escalated-quickly
- Six Degrees of Separation: https://www.sciencealert.com/are-we-all-really-connected-by-just-six-degrees-of-separation
- Kevin Bacon, Actor: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000102/
- ‘Yan, Tan, Tethera’ The beginning of a sheep counting rhyme used by shepherds (and used for counting knitting stitches), especially in Northern England (with variants in other counties) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Tan_Tethera
- Counting in Turkish: (Suzanne’s pronunciation is slightly off…) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLZZuMG9qlE
- Counting to 10 in Latin: https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/how-to-count-in-latin/en/lat/
- Idris Elba, Mcavity in Cats the film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5697572/
- Big Trouble in Little China (1986) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728/
- “Good boy, Edmund.” Blackadder Series 2, ‘Money’
- Vivaldi: Antonio Vivaldi, composer: https://www.classicfm.com/composers/vivaldi/
- How to find us online
Episode 80 – Coded and Cipher Runes
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
"How did he do such fantastic stunts with such little feet?" Blazing Saddles (1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/
Titanic (1997) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Jurassic Park (1993) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/
“But I have never seen a vision...” Interview with a Vampire: the vampire chronicles (1994) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110148/characters/nm0000104
“I like not these feelings” Paraphrased from “I like not this news, bring me better news” Blackadder series one, The Queen of Spain’s Beard http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/epguide/one_queen.shtml
Nursemaid in the giant castle – from the Journey to Utgard (we totally did a double episode on this, but if you’d like to read instead - http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/mythology/myths/text/thor_utgard.htm)
Whosoever shall draw the sock from this stone… paraphrased from Sir Thomas Mallory – King Arthur and His Knights
Bait and Switch (which Suzanne misheard as Beighton Switch) https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bait-switch.asp
Sean Bean – Actor with a career in theatre, radio, TV and film: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000293/
All Saints ‘Never Ever’ (1998) – ‘the alphabet runs straight from A to Z’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Ever_(All_Saints_song)
“This is where the story really starts” The Goon Show, Dishonoured (series 5 episode 12) first broadcast December 1954 http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e12_dishonoured
Morecombe and Wise film: The Intelligence Men (1965) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059315/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt
Battleships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)
‘Happy little trees’ from the painter Bob Ross https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross
Bryggen in Bergen – the bearded faces and the fish scales. There’s a few other ways of coding listed on this site: https://www.arild-hauge.com/esecreter.htm
TTFN – brought into popularity in Britain in 1940 through the character Mrs Mopp from ‘It’s That Man Again’ https://www.abbreviations.com/TTFN
Steganography - https://securelist.com/steganography-in-contemporary-cyberattacks/79276/
The microdot in the Roger Moore Bond film – now we look it up, it’s a Sean Connery Bond film ‘You Only Live Twice’ (1967) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062512/ Roger Moore’s eyebrows are still independent though.
Havamal verse 143/144 ‘Do you know…? - https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html#runes
The runes coded in short and long lines are sometimes known as Ice Runes. Rotbrunna Stone reads ‘Airikr Huik’ = ‘Erik + to cut/carve/scratch/chip in stone with a chisel’ so Erik carved (these runes). For a picture of the stone, head here, the coded runes are the bottom right of the ribbon. http://www.runesnruins.com/runes/u1165.html
Sigtuna inscription ‘kiss me’ https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/02/jotunvillur-code-cracked/
The handwritten manuscript: Ggallen Cod 270 4to
Valsta Stone – mixes twigs and lines to encode runes, you can see a drawing of the inscription here: https://stonecircles.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/deciphering-secretrunes/
The font in Kareby Church, is a ‘read runes right’ inscription, there’s another at Gol Church. Kareby reads ‘interpret you who can the name Orklaski.’ From Norwegian Runes and Runic inscriptions by Spurkland https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1QDKqY-NWvUC&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=The+font+in+Kareby+Church&source=bl&ots=PrUEPYQGzc&sig=ACfU3U0T43aURoVSwyKVLqzPQvYsxxjB5Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJtNGjyefoAhVUilwKHQT4DIkQ6AEwAHoECA0QKQ#v=onepage&q=The%20font%20in%20Kareby%20Church&f=false
‘The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’ A pangram or holoalphabietic sentence https://people.howstuffworks.com/14-pangrams.htm
Caesar Cipher http://practicalcryptography.com/ciphers/caesar-cipher/
Added twiddly bits on the Torvika A and B inscriptions: (under T in this alphabetical list: https://www.arild-hauge.com/einscription.htm
Rotation Cipher, eg Rot13. A Caesar Cipher with a 13 place shift
Jotunvillur Code proposed by PhD student Jonas Nordby at the University of Oslo in 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/12/ancient-viking-code-deciphered-runologist-jotunvillur
(and the quote from the professor can be found at the bottom of this article: https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-history-forskningno-language/mysterious-code-in-viking-runes-is-cracked/1396525 )
Linear A and B, and the translation by Michael Ventris: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cracking-the-code-the-decipherment-of-linear-b-60-years-on
Rosetta Stone - a stone inscription with the same decree written in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Ancient Greek https://blog.britishmuseum.org/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-rosetta-stone/
Hieroglyphics, and story of translation- Thomas Young’s initial work in 1814 looking at cartouches, built on by Champollion in 1822: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/06/how-hieroglyphics-were-originally-translated/
Enigma Machine – breaking the codes used in WWII (there’s a whole history here) https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/enigma/hist.htm
The Franks Casket: https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=92560&partId=1
“This is not Sparta” 300 film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_(film)
Ogham https://www.omniglot.com/writing/ogham.htm
How to find us online
Episode 79 – Theological Reflection - Odr and Odin
Things we talk about in this episode
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Meadow ambience by various contributors at www.ambient-mixer.com, assembled by Minerva (not that one (presumably - sorry if so, Your Wiseness - although given it's seeing use as a battlefield here it's not inappropriate since she's also a war goddess)).
- Kate and coffee at breakfast.
- Social distancing - This episode was recorded during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
- “I will take these cotton balls” - It turned out it was totally Robin Hood: Men in Tights (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKXSKhUu0gM) and not Cannonball Run at all - but if you do want some outtakes from Cannonball Run, you can find them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avis_OWEZlI&list=RD1TtZgs8k8dU&index=24 )
- “Chamberlain is friend to gelfling” The Skeksis Chamberlain from The Dark Crystal - Age of Resistance: https://darkcrystal.fandom.com/wiki/SkekSil
- “All them little holes in your nut.” The Goon Show episode: The Man Who Never Was http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s08e21_the_man_who_never_was
- “The plays the thing, therein you’ll catch the conscience of the king” Hamlet https://www.shmoop.com/shakespeare-quotes/plays-the-thing/meaning-then.html
- “She who is my wife.” Vulcan Ambassador Sarek introducing his second human wife Perrin in Star Trek the Next Generation. Season 3, episode 23: ‘Sarek’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarek_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
- “Oooohhhhh, the claw...” Toy Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT8If2VABWQ
- Diana and Artemis http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/difference-between-greek-goddess-artemis-and-roman-goddess-diana/
- Pascals Wager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S93jMOqF-oE
- References to Odr in the mythology:
- Poetic Edda: Voluspa stanza 25 and Hyndluljod stanza 47
- Prose Edda: Gylfaginning chapter 35, Skaldskaparmal chapter 20, 36, 49 and 75
- Heimskringla: Yinglinga Saga chapter 1
- Darmok – Star Trek: The Next Generation episode https://intl.startrek.com/article/one-trek-mind-deciphering-darmok
- Scrabble: word spelling game: https://scrabble.hasbro.com/en-us
- The Butterfly Effect – here you can find it discussed with deterministic chaos and fractals:https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/02/13/chaos-theory-the-butterfly-effect-and-the-computer-glitch-that-started-it-all/#fd42cb469f6c
- Fatherland - Robert Harris https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0089WCFAY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
- Gas Lit Empire series – Rod Duncan https://www.angryrobotbooks.com/shop/year/2017-books/the-fall-of-the-gas-lit-empire-boxed-set/
- How to find us online
Episode 78 – Ship Burials
Things we talk about in this episode:
- Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
- Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
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Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
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Snow White - “Someday my Prince will Come” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0niwn2pOEno
- “You silly twisted boy, you.” Runnig joke from throughout The Goon Show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show_running_jokes
- “I got better” Monty Python and the Holy Grail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
- Pop Tarts https://www.kelloggs.com/en_US/brands/pop-tarts-consumer-brand.html
- Naptha https://www.britannica.com/science/naphtha
- 300 (2006) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416449/
- Two-Man Luge - https://www.cbssports.com/olympics/news/winter-olympics-doubles-luge-is-raising-a-lot-of-questions-and-we-have-answers/
- “The dead don’t bury themselves” quote from Mike Parker Pearson, archaeologist specialising in funerary archaeology, and someone who taught Suzanne archaeology. Try his book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Archaeology-Burial-Michael-Parker-Pearson/dp/0750932767
- The Scar Boat Burial, Sanday, Orkney - http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/scarboat/index.html
- The Scar Whalebone Plaque - http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/scarboat/plaqueimage.htm
- Greek Triremes - https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/ancient-greece/trireme/
- Port an Eline Moir - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/oct/19/viking-burial-ship-found-scotland
- Ritually bent Viking swords - https://press.nordicopenaccess.no/index.php/noasp/catalog/view/51/234/2167-1
- Snape Cemetery - http://eaareports.org.uk/publication/report95/
- The Black Grave, Ukraine - https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/black-grave
- Vendel, Sweden https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2019/07/06/viking-grave-discovery-in-sweden-leaves-archaeologists-stunned/#12bce2fe5e57
- Sutton Hoo https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries/sutton-hoo-and-europe
- Tripods TV series (1984 - 1985) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086818/
- Trickle down economics https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/trickledowntheory.asp
- Oseberg – if you want to go have a peek before we do a double episode on this one, head here: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/
- The Drakken – a replica ship that is huge and currently sailing: https://www.drakenhh.com/ They do a newsletter that you can sign up for.
- The Viking – a replica ship based on the Gokstad viking ship: http://historyofvikings.com/first-viking-ship-replica/ sailed the Atlantic ocean in 1893
- Magnus Magnusson replica – nope, he wrote a book, the one Suzanne was thinking of was the Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl https://www.kon-tiki.no/expeditions/kon-tiki-expedition/
- Ibn Fadlan’s account of a Rus Chieftains funeral http://www.germanicmythology.com/works/PSJibnfadlan.html
- The funeral in Beowulf:http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs2003a/Yesenia&Vivar/funeral.htm
- That lad who discovered the comet… the one Kate was thinking of was a planet: https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-intern-wolf-cukier-new-planet-third-day-2020-1?r=US&IR=T (and another one who discovered a planet: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/11/scoolboy-work-experience-discovers-planet )
- How to find us online
Episode 77 – Rune Spotlight - Jera
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Marquis of Bath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Bath
Marquis of Queensbury: proposed the Queensbury Rules, which form the basis of modern Boxing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Douglas,_9th_Marquess_of_Queensberry
Marquis de Sade: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-marquis-de-sade-180953980/
Imperial Clipper- Elite Dangerous https://www.elitedangerous.com/
Jumping the Shark - -when a long running show changes in a significant manner: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JumpingTheShark
MIFFS Podcast – have just started recounting the Norse myths in their mythology podcast – Norse ones start at episode 95 onwards.
Continuously variable transmission: https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-tech/101267/what-is-a-cvt-gearbox
T800s: from the Terminator franchise - https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/T-800
“What we do in life, echoes in eternity” From Gladiator (2000) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDpTc32sV1Y
The March of the Sinister Ducks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGL8Fx6SOjg
Windmills of your Mind: here’s the version from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXFh-mYh2dQ
Morecombe and Wise Christmas Special in 1973 had a version of Windmills of Your Mind with Hannah Gordon https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0651160/
Fractals in nature: https://www.diygenius.com/fractals-in-nature/
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146316/
Auguries of Innocence by William Blake: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43650/auguries-of-innocence
“I can’t carry it, but I can carry you.” Samwise Gamgee to Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings Return of the King. http://www.councilofelrond.com/moviebook/6-03-mount-doom/
“A time to sow and a time to reap” The Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:2
My Grandfathers Axe/ The Ship of Theseus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzKH8_EXG3Q
How to find us online
Episode 76 – Meditation for Njord
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- Train Simulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_Simulator_(video_game) We underestimated – there’s over $8k of downloadable content in this game...
- Gromit chasing a penguin on a train - The chase scene from Wallace and Gromit’s The Wrong Trousers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrmZIgVoQw4
- The Train Chase from Ant Man (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxJNpBZmksM
- Wotsits: cheese flavour maize snack: https://walkers-snacks.co.uk/walkers-wotsits
- Little blue guys with red hair – the Wee Free Men – first appearing in the 30th Discworld book from Sir Terry Pratchett https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/books/the-wee-free-men/
- Epsilion Eridani, now called Ran: https://www.universeguide.com/star/sadira
- Thazi’s Eyes – a twin constellation fro norse Astronomy: http://www.digitaliseducation.com/resources-norse.html
- Can the Mountains Love the Sea? Our storytime episode from November 2017 telling the story of the marriage of Njord and Skathi https://tac.podbean.com/e/frithcast-episode-22-can-the-mountains-love-the-sea/
- How to find us online
Episode 75 – Using Mantras and Short Prayer
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- “The plays the thing...” Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2.
- Bismillah – Arabic: https://wahiduddin.net/words/bismillah.htm
- Ecclesiastical hours - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy_of_the_Hours
- Retail Chaplains - http://www.retailchaplains.org.uk/
- You are free to use the mantras in this episode in your own personal practice, let us know how you get on :)
- How to find us online
Episode 74 – The One With 20 Giant Cats
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- “Exits stage left” Bluebottle, from the Goon Show
- The Watershed: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/advice-for-consumers/television/what-is-the-watershed
- Cracked: https://www.cracked.com/
- Cats: https://www.catsthemusical.com/
- The Rise of Skywalker (2019): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2527338/
- “Walking uphill both ways….” ‘When I was your age’ trope - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhenIWasYourAge
- Diablo - https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Diablo_(Game)
- Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q
- Mirror Universe – from Star Trek: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Mirror_universe
- Pokemon Trainer – from Pokemon: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Trainer
- “We were set upon by like, five, ten, twenty big… huge lads” From Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (1991)
- Smudging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smudging
- Ghostwatch https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41740176
- Starks – from Game of Thrones https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/House_Stark
- Obelix – from Asterix and Obelix: https://www.asterix.com/en/portfolio/obelix/
- Road Runner from the Wile. E Coyote cartoons https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Road_Runner
- The guards in the Count of Monte Cristo: to escape from the Chateau D’If Edmond Dantes has swapped himself for the body of his friend The Priest, and put himself in the body bag to be thrown over the cliff. As he gets thrown off the clifftop, he grabs the keys at the Wardens belt and takes the Warden with him (2002)
- Captain Mal Reynolds, naked on a rock: from the opening of Firefly episode 11 ‘Trash’ https://firefly.fandom.com/wiki/Trash
- Terrordogs – from Ghostbusters https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Terror_dogs_(Type_of_Creatures)
- Doppleganger https://www.britannica.com/art/doppelganger
- Jedi and the dark side – from Star Wars https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-101-servants-of-the-dark-side
- The saga with the 20 giant cats in is Vatnsdæla saga which you can find an article about here: https://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2014/08/25/they-are-a-gruesome-lot/ here https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/vatnsdaela-saga/ and here
- https://www.usask.ca/english/icelanders/applic_Vatns-Grettla.html
- ‘Three coins in a fountain’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Coins_in_the_Fountain_(film)
How to find us online
Episode 73 – Lifestyles of the Rich and Faithful
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- The Great Conjunction, Chamberlain and Aughra, both from the Dark Crystal (1982): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083791/
- Geralt, from The Witcher (book series and TV series) https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Geralt_of_Rivia
- Superman, character from DC Comics: https://www.dccomics.com/characters/superman
- “Panem Tomorrow, Panem Forever” From The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00F51BBV6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
- Farewell Angelina – Joan Baez - the earworm is yours now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcwP2ulxDdY
- Graffiti from Pompeii: http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm
- Thing 1 and Thing 2 - Dr Zeus: https://seuss.fandom.com/wiki/Thing_One_and_Thing_Two
- Global Heathen Survey: http://www.heathenhof.com/world-wide-heathenry/
- North of the Wall – from Game of Thrones https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Beyond_the_Wall
- Tiny Houses, such as Tumbleweed: https://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/ and a good article here: https://www.countryliving.com/home-design/g1887/tiny-house/
- Skyrim, Elder Scrolls game: https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/skyrim
- Havamal: https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html
- “Be Excellent to each other” from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/
How to find us online
Episode 72 – Random Reel the Three
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Five Minutes with Coffee
A Knights Tale of High Notes
A Wild Hair Appears
Borked
Can’t Click
Don’t Stop us Now
Elephant in Clogs
Episo Espoid
Fighting for Freedom Without Trousers
Freud, Ice Cream and Lesbians
Suzanne Sings
Hybrid Scots
Kate Finds Coffee in Her Rum
Kate Sings
Marylin Manson and Sport
Sniff
Soldier Out of Tune
Supersonic Second Lines
What Number are we on Exactly?
Yaaas Queen
We’ve been doing Frithcast for three years. Seventy one regular episodes so far. You’ve been listening to a Heathen and a coffee-powered Druid chatter on about modern heathenry with a good sprinking of quotes and geekery for three years. And you, lovely listeners, are the reason that we have. So, we’d like to say thank you, in the only way that we can: to celebrate our third birthday, we’d like to present you with a very special episode. As last years random reel, we present clips of some of the funny moments that didn’t quite make it to the episodes. No shownotes this time, you’ve earned a break.
Thank you from us to you, we hope you enjoy, and carry on listening :)
Suzanne and Kate
Episode 71 – Storytime – The One With Boopbeak In.
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- Po – Kung Fu Panda – film 2008 https://kungfupanda.fandom.com/wiki/Po
- Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness – John Keats ‘Ode to Autumn’ https://poets.org/poem/autumn
- Proserpina: http://www.talesbeyondbelief.com/roman-gods/proserpina.htm
- “Nor glom of nit” - Going Postal by Terry Pratchett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Postal
- Chekov’s gun: https://www.nownovel.com/blog/use-chekhovs-gun/
- The fairies gifting Aurora before Maleficent arrives: from Sleeping Beauty https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Flora,_Fauna,_and_Merryweather
- Maltese Falcon film (1941) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870/
- Mcguffin: a literary device around which the plot revolves but which doesn’t do anything. See the suitcase in Pulp Fiction for a modern example https://www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/articles/what-is-a-mcguffin
- That scene in John Wick (the quote is at 7:40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZBRrYEGET8
- Eastenders Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYa_KfLTtM
- “Curses, he missed the note” The Goon Show, series 5 episode 7 ‘China Story’ http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e17_china_story
- “Always in the last place you look, like stockings” – Flemeth, DragonAge
- Excalibur: the name of the sword of King Arthur: https://www.ancient.eu/Excalibur/
- Glamdring – Gandalf’s sword from Lord of the Rings: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Glamdring
- “Your father smells of elderberries” Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/
- Smol Snek: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/snek
- “Look at his little back leg going like the clappers” Round the Horne:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_the_Horne
- “Hey! Listen!” Navi from The Legend of Zelda games https://zelda.gamepedia.com/Navi
- Rubber chicken with a pulley in it – Monkey Island computer game: https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Rubber_Chicken_With_A_Pulley_In_The_Middle
- Tea and No Tea from the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy computer game: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
- Zac McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders: PC game from 1988 https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders
- Chamberlain – character from The Dark Crystal (Film and TV series) https://darkcrystal.fandom.com/wiki/SkekSil
- “I shall do such things, what they are yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth” King Lear, Act 2, Scene 4
- “I don’t know if they grade it, but… coarse” - Sterling Archer, Archer, episode ‘Mole Hunt’ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1539157/characters/nm0168642
- If you’d like to read the Ballad of Svipdag for yourself, you can find it here: https://thenorsegods.com/the-ballad-of-svipdag/
- How to find us online
Episode 70 – Njals Saga part 2
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- The Sword of Damocles https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-sword-of-damocles
- Hamlet’s father’s ghost https://www.shmoop.com/hamlet/ghost.html
- Asterix and Obelix: https://www.asterix.com/en/portfolio/obelix/
- Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar – from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere: http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/croup.htm
- "Passport in the name of Emily Berkenstien” The book of Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
- “Two heated towel rails” Lenny Henry, Live and Unleashed: https://youtu.be/Vd6CqB144JA?t=1371
- “Good Yard” from a drunk student emailing his professor to ask for an extension: https://imgur.com/gallery/w7tqd
- Nero in Star Trek (2009) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/?ref_=tt_ch
- Mindhunter (2017 -2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5290382/
- Game of Thrones https://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones
- Jean Baptiste Emmanuelle Zorg, the 5th Element (1997( https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Element
- John Wick (2014) https://john-wick.fandom.com/wiki/John_Wick_(film)
- Dallas (1978 – 1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077000/
- Dynasty (1981 – 1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081856/
- How to find us online
Episode 69 – Njals Saga part 1
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- “Write the theme tune, sing the theme tune” from the character Dennis Waterman, Little Britain https://littlebritain.fandom.com/wiki/Dennis_Waterman
- “You must watch these little points” The Goon Show, The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved). First broadcast 16th November 1964 http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e08_the_mystery_of_the_marie_celeste_solved
- Suzanne totally forgot which episode the Beowulf episode was, it was episode 6. Not episode 5, which was 9 realms in 20 minutes…
- Blackadder and Baldrick’s short holiday, in Dish and Dishonesty from 1986
- Segway - http://uk-en.segway.com/
- Isle of Lewis Chessmen – especially the Berserker piece biting on his own shield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen
- George RR Martin – author of A Song of Ice and Fire, made into the TV series of Game of Thrones
- Minecraft sheep: https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Sheep
- Tom Bombadill: character from Lord of the Rings (cut from the film adaptations): https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_Bombadil
- Luke Skywalker and Biggs Darklighter: childhood friends in the Star Wars Universe: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Biggs_Darklighter/Legends
- Asterix and Obelix: https://www.asterix.com/en/portfolio/obelix/
- “Running, jumping climbing trees” Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill
- Being a lumberjack – The Lumberjack Song from Monty Python, British Comedy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRdur8GLBM
- TLC, No Scrubs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrLequ6dUdM
- “Possibly Brain, but where are we going to get…?” Pinky and the Brain: https://pinkyandthebrain.fandom.com/wiki/Are_You_Pondering_What_I%27m_Pondering%3F
- The Importance of Being Earnest – the tea party scene between Cecily and Gwendoline https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/earnest/section4/
- HBO’s Rome: Attia and Sevillia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-Jb_uZSPc
- Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar – from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere: http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/croup.htm
- If you’d like to look at the saga before our part II, head here: https://www.gradesaver.com/njals-saga
- How to find us online
Episode 68 – Come Kif! Following St Ansgar
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- Tessa Thompson: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1935086/
- “Hola Commander, have a muffin.” Strike Commander: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_Commander
- “If you’re looking for adventure, I bet my shinies will tempt you.” Everquest II
- “Robust ...precise...” The Sommelier Scene from John Wick II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUpfO4x8Ch8
- Status Quo – famous for using three main chords in their songs: http://www.statusquo.co.uk/
- Zapp Brannigan - from Futurarma: https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Zapp_Brannigan
- Ace Rimmer – from Red Dwarf:http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/a/acerimmr.htm
- Ab Urbe Condita – “From the founding of the city”
- “Abbot says ‘Come Home’” a paraphrase of ‘Gerda says come home’ one of the number of rune sticks found in Bergen: http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/40/v40i02p049-058.pdf
- Dread Pirate Roberts – from The Princess Bride: https://princessbride.fandom.com/wiki/Dread_Pirate_Roberts
- London Vatican Embassy https://www.visahq.co.uk/vatican/embassy/united-kingdom/
- A bit Pete Tong – Cockney Rhyming Slang for ‘a bit wrong’
- “A passport in the name of Emily Berkenstein” From Red Dwarf: https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/Mimas
- An English translation of the Vita Anskari is available here: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/anskar.asp
- If you look at other sources for Ansgar, contrast them with this one: http://www.oodegr.com/english/biographies/arxaioi/Ansgar_Hamburg.htm
- How to find us online
Episode 67 - Vikings and Christians
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- “Kate von Lichtenstein” - paraphrased from A Knight’s Tale (2001) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183790/
- Sashay Away – Ru Paul, especially in Ru Paul’s Drag Race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLpMwN9n0ZM
- Invader Zim https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235923/
- The Golgafrinshan B Ark: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_Ship_B
- Ibn Fadlan’s account of the Rus Chieftains burial: https://www.worldbulletin.net/history/perception-of-the-vikings-from-ibn-fadlans-glance-in-al-risala-h115169.html
- The Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eaters-Dead-Michael-Crichton/dp/0099222825
- The 13th Warrior (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120657/
- The Anglo Saxon Chronicle https://www.britannica.com/topic/Anglo-Saxon-Chronicle
- Runestones in Sweden https://mashable.com/2017/01/07/runestones-of-sweden/?europe=true
- The conversion of Northern Europe – Suzanne likes Fletcher’s book “The Conversion of Europe: From Paganism to Christianity 371 – 1386 AD” - accessible for the non-academic and a good overview of the whole period.
- “5... 10, 20 big lads” Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves (1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102798/
- Runestones were painted: https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/power-and-aristocracy/rune-stones/ and also http://www.the-ninth-age.com/community/index.php?thread/43805-painted-runestones/ for images
- Roman statues were also painted: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/gods-in-color-ancient-world-polychromy/index.html and here for a video: https://theancienthome.com/blogs/blog-and-news/greek-roman-statues-painted
- Civic works mentioned on runestones: the brige at Taby - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarlabanke_Runestones
- Adam of Bremen: esp his description of the temple at Uppsala http://www.germanicmythology.com/works/uppsalatemple.html
- Redwaaaaall! Rom the Brian Jacques childrens book series https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/DUI/redwall
- Bede and his account of King Redwald’s two altars: https://wuffingeducation.co.uk/information/previous-study-days/2015-jan-to-march/temple-of-the-two-altars/
- Emperor Julian the Apostate https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julian-Roman-emperor
- Pharoh Akenton https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/pharaoh-akhenaten-different-view-heretic-king-005249
- Top down and bottom up conversion in the early church: https://www.history.com/news/inside-the-conversion-tactics-of-the-early-christian-church
- The Emperor’s new clothes https://andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheEmperorsNewClothes_e.html
- Sutton Hoo’s christening spoons: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=86503&partId=1&searchText=byzantine&place=35846&page=1
- The conversion of St Paul: https://catholicexchange.com/the-conversion-of-st-paul
- The Irish Crozier and Buddha finds from Helgo: http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viking-age-buddha/
- How to find us online
Episode 66 – That’s really Wyrd
Big love and shout out to Lisa Barnett who suggested the topic for this episode
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- Sew.. a deer, a female deer – parpahrased from Do, Re, Mi, The Sound of Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RW3nDRmu6k
- Beowulf – Seamus Heaney performed by the Holdfast Theatre Company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqhqSKXahCI
- Cork version of Beowulf. The audio first part is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-1-gNeoCU8P7oAY5FaXd5uXviLrsPJV9/view and there’s more here: https://boyowulf.home.blog/2019/03/20/boyo-wulf-ll-1-19/
- The Cowboy Havamal – Prof Jackson Crawford: https://jacksonwcrawford.com/the-cowboy-havamal/
- “On the raggedy edge, don’t push me...” Capt. Mal Reynolds. Serenity (2005) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Serenity_(film)
- “Execute episode 66.” paraphrased from The Emperor, Star Wars: Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
- Rosecarntz and Guilderstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rosencrantz-Guildenstern-Are-Dead-Stoppard/dp/0802126219
- The Merchant of Venice: more notably the Diane Duane version in which Shylock is awarded a pound of flesh and decides that the pound he wants is Antonio’s heart...
- Bablyon 5 episode: A View from the Gallery (Season 5, episode 4, 1998) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0517621/
- Dree your Wyrd: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dree_one%27s_weird
- The Wall and Wildlings – from the books series ‘Song of Ice and Fire’, GRR Martin. https://www.waterstones.com/category/science-fiction-fantasy-horror/fantasy/a-game-of-thrones
- Stoicism – short video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhn1Fe8cT0Q
- “They know their doom but not the hour” The Emperor Uriel Septim in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Emperor_Uriel_Septim
- Galadriel. Lord of the Rings– “the mirror shows that which was, that which is and that which has not yet come to pass.”
- The Wanderer – https://anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/the-wanderer/
- Fafnismal – “to go against fate is to row against a fierce wind”
- Dante’s Inferno: http://www.worldofdante.org/inferno1.html
- Lindsay Ellis (as Loose Canon) discussion of Hades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmcV90cya1Y
- The Norns and the Parkai: https://www.indeuropean.com/religion/gods/fate-goddess
- Njal’s Saga – that loom from chapter 156: http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/darra.htm
- Valkerie in Thor Ragnarok https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Valkyrie
- T-Rex on the Plain! A clumsy way for the GM of a roleplaying game to force the players back onto the storyline. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/KillerGameMaster
- Star Trek The Next Generation: Cause and Effect (Season 5, episode 18)
- Time Loops and Doctor Who: particularly ‘Heaven Sent’ (series 9, episode 11) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Sent_(Doctor_Who)
- Chronology Protection Conjecture- Stephen Hawking: there’s a Scientific American article here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-chronology-protection/
- “The cake is a lie” from the game ‘Portal’ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-cake-is-a-lie
- Nihilism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ajv-RrQs4o
- Abnigation – from the Divergent series: https://divergent.fandom.com/wiki/Abnegation
- “Fear profits man nothing.” The 13th Warrior (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120657/
- A magicians choice, or equivocation https://secrets-explained.com/basic-techniques/magician-s-choice
- Fate and free will in Frank Herbert’s Dune: https://www.shmoop.com/dune/fate-free-will-theme.html
- Dr Who and Fixed Points in Time:https://doctorwhowatch.com/2014/10/13/fixed-points-time-doctor/
- Terminator Timeline(s): https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/The_Terminator_timeline
- Professor KJ Wanner: https://wmich.edu/religion/directory/wanner (mentioned in: https://study.com/academy/lesson/wyrd-in-beowulf.html)
- Theodicy: the problem of evil in monoetheism: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/student-zone/philosophy-of-religion/the-problem-of-evil/theodicies
- Fate in Greek tragedy – Hamartia: https://www.britannica.com/art/hamartia
- Star Trek Voyager: The Year of Hell https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709014/
- The Butterfly Effect: https://interestingengineering.com/what-exactly-is-the-butterfly-effect
- Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Trials and Tribble-ations (Based on Origianl Series ‘The Trouble with Tribbles’) https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Trials_and_Tribble-ations_(episode)
- The Pistol Star https://www.constellation-guide.com/pistol-star/
- The Great Annihalator (not the biggest black hole in the galaxy for some reason…) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Annihilator
- “Why is it that cats have the majority on flaps? Take your cat and your flap, and...” Lenny Henry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXkxXDT1-F8
- How to find us online
Episode 65 – Uruz – The Wildercow
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Bos Primigenius, the wild aurochs: https://prehistoric-fauna.com/Bos-primigenius
Hinge and Bracket: http://hingeandbracketofficial.co.uk/AboutHingeAndBracket.html
Terminus: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terminus
De Bello Gallico: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentarii_de_Bello_Gallico
Terrordog – from Ghostbusters https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Terror_dogs_(Type_of_Creatures)
Bull and Bear Markets https://www.investopedia.com/insights/digging-deeper-bull-and-bear-markets/
Horns in Sutton Hoo: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/drinking-horns-from-the-ship-burial-at-sutton-hoo/twFuvoV610_wMQ
Grendel – from Beowulf: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Grendel
The rune poems – three with their english translations: https://www.ragweedforge.com/poems.html
Kennings: https://www.theschoolrun.com/what-is-a-kenning
Christian Laboutin shoes: http://eu.christianlouboutin.com/uk_en/
Terry Pratchett – metal high heels for lady dwarves: see especially Cheery Littlebotton to Cherry Littlebottom.
Thelwell Pony: http://www.thelwell.org.uk/
Fizzgig – from the Dark Crystal https://darkcrystal.fandom.com/wiki/Fizzgig
“Grey is the usual colour, majesty...” Blackadder Season II episode: ‘Head’ 1986 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526718/characters/nm0000410
“What’s an elephant?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smN4_9PwZOw
“There will be no capes” Edna Mole from the Incredibles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M68ndaZSKa8
Just William books https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/just-william-100-year-anniversary-richmal-crompton-children-books-a8777626.html
How to find us online
Episode 64 – Tyr and the Nature of Scacrifice
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- “Walking through the streets of London in the rain” paraphrased from the song Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpYBT0XyvA
- “Bourbon Street” from ‘Moon over Bourbon Street’ by Sting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i_0PkOqLKA
- Utilitarianism, with a little help from Batman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a739VjqdSI
- “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” Most notably in Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982), but also in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) and Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
- “Not the one.” Quote from Zathras, Babylon Five https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Zathras
- Sigurdrifumal – here’s a place to start:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigrdr%C3%ADfum%C3%A1l
- Lokasenna: Loki insults Tyr by saying that he only brings strife
- Tyr and the Binding of Fenrir can be found here: https://norse-mythology.org/tales/the-binding-of-fenrir/
- Marty McFly from Back to the Future series of films (first released in 1985, but it’s hard to say with time travel…) https://www.backtothefuture.com/
- Justitia – Goddess of balance: https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/kap_2/advanced/h2_1_3.html
- Nemesis – Goddess of retribution: https://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Nemesis.html
- Romans connected Tyr with Mars: https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/the-aesir-gods-and-goddesses/tyr/
- The make up of a Roman legion: https://www.unrv.com/military/legion.php
- Dune and the system of Kanly https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Kanly
- The Saga of Hakon the Good: https://avaldsnes.info/en/informasjon/hakon-den-gode/
- Adam of Bremen’s account of the Temple at Uppsala: http://www.germanicmythology.com/works/uppsalatemple.html
- Blazing Saddles (1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/
- Human Sacrifice at Trelleborg, there’s some good info here: https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/human-sacrifices/ and here: https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2014/12/02/child_sacrifice_and_other_viking_activities_108967.html
- Pax Deorum:http://www.ancientpages.com/2018/05/01/what-was-pax-deorum-and-how-important-was-it/
- “see here Mars, if you be the man for this job I will give you...” - quote from HBO series Rome (TV series 2005 - 2007)
- “It is better not to give, than to give too much” Havamal verse 144
- “Money is like muck, no good unless spread” Francis Bacon
- ‘If you hoard it, they will come’ paaraphrased from Field of Dreams (1989) ‘If you built it, they will come’ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097351/
- Sigurd and Fafnir - https://www.storynory.com/sigurd-and-the-dragon/
- Caesar – De Bello Gallico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentarii_de_Bello_Gallico
- Tacitus – Germania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania_(book)
- There’s a nice site about the nature of viking sacrifice in Denmark here: https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/the-viking-blot-sacrifices/
- How to find us online
Episode 63 – The Case of the Missing Apples
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
How to find us online
- If you’d like to read the original of this tale, you’re looking for the Skáldskaparmál chapter 56.
- “A new life awaits you in Midgard...” paraphrased from the opening advert in Bladerunner (1982)
- “A night when the sky came down and wrapped itself...” paraphrased from the opening of The Big Sleep by Mickey Spillaine (1939)
- June 793 – the date of the Viking raid on Lindesfarne, as recorded in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle
- “A more wretched hive of scum and villany” Ben Kenobi, Star Wars IV A New Hope (1977) (well, we had to get one geek reference in...)
- There’s a lot of sound effects in this one. A lot. If you’re really into them, you can find plenty on Freesound, Sound Bible, Youtube and Ambient Mixer. We’ve used all of these under creative commons license, here’s some of the more prominent ones:
- ambient-mixer.com: City ambience based on Gotham City Rain by mosca67 Gin Joint based on Noir Cafe by scathach Office based on Valentine Detective Agency by FalloutThoughts Music 'Film Noir' by Matthew Pablo
- YouTube: Gunshots Ricochet by SoundEffectsFactory via YouTube Ambience police sirens sampled from "Federal Electric, Type 8, Siren 1920's to 40's" by Skulldigger via YouTube 'Ain't She Sweet' by Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
Freesound: Car Stopping by Ermens
Episode 62 – To Interfaith or not
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Traditional Bingo Calling: https://www.bingomum.co.uk/bingo-calls/
Rich Tea Biscuits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_tea
“You walked out of a shop? Champagne!” Eddie Izzard, the Definite Article 1996
Jack the Ripper and Delenn – from the episode Comes the Inquisitor, Babylon 5 (1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILLWZ6c3YsI
Vikings and connections to the Arabic World: (The Arabic inscription ring has now been discounted, but the rest is solid) http://www.1001inventions.com/vikings
Monotheism – the belief that deity is one single form. Most commonly the Abramic faiths of Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
The Problem of Evil in Christianity: here the quick version from a Christian point of view https://corechristianity.com/resource-library/articles/god-and-suffering , and here’s a deeper article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15665399.2006.10819908
“God is an absentee Landlord” – Devil’s Advocate (1997) https://sitegallery.ru/video/IS4mUTQnIwUIHhI/al-pacino-speech-on-devils-advocate.html
Marcus Aurelius - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marcus-Aurelius-Roman-emperor
Proselytisation – in which people of faith try and persuade others to believe or start learning about that faith. For example street preachers or going door to door.
Forced Conversion – here’s an article about historical forced conversion: https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/interview-converting-by-the-sword
Tartarus, the Greek prison of the Dammed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH23AKkFg1s
The Asphodel Meadows https://mythworld.fandom.com/wiki/Asphodel_Meadows
Kemetic concept of Judgement- https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/judgementofthedead/
“Be Excellent to each Other” - Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/ and https://medium.com/@zach.hughes/be-excellent-to-each-other-leadership-lessons-from-bill-ted-a3db4e2bbed3
Sikh’s and feeding people after Temple: http://pluralism.org/religions/sikhism/the-sikh-experience/langar-the-communal-meal/
Muslim’s and prayer times: https://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/prayer-timetable/
Religious extremism and teaching awareness of it here https://www.religiouseducationcouncil.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Gateway_4-1.pdf , and an article here: https://www.nber.org/papers/w11663.pdf
Kashmiri Tea https://www.arborteas.com/kashmiri-chai-recipe/
Erebus: https://www.greekboston.com/culture/mythology/erebus/
Charon’s Obol and crossing the Styx: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/exposing-shady-secrets-charons-obols-spirit-coins-ancient-greece-005867
“Please Sir, can I have some more?” Oliver Twist (1968) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063385/?ref_=ttmc_mc_tt
There’s a good book which looks at the conversion of Northern Europe – From Paganism to Christianity by Fletcher. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009ULCSZ0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
How to find us online
Episode 61 – Ran Goddess of the Deeps
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Wave sound effect: https://freesound.org/people/Eelke/sounds/462595/
Opening Poem: The Harp Song of the Dane Women, Rudyard Kipling https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47691/harp-song-of-the-dane-women
References to Ran are in brief: the Sonatorrek, three times in the Poetic/Prose Edda, and once in the Volsung Saga. There’s not much historical information to go on to help you build your relationship with her.
House Greyjoy: From Game of Thrones, a Minor Northern House of pirates living on a spit of barren islands with the motto ‘We Do Not Sow’ https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/House_Greyjoy
Neptune/ Poseidon https://mythology.net/greek/greek-gods/poseidon/ https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/gods/neptune/ and his temple in Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Neptune_(Rome)
Freud: conscious, subconscious and unconscious https://www.verywellmind.com/the-conscious-and-unconscious-mind-2795946
No Man is an Island: John Donne https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/island.html
Bioluminescence https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/fish/bioluminescence and red critters in the deep dark: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/red-color.html
“He’s fallen in the water!” Little Jim, minor character in The Goon Show http://www.thegoonshow.net/characters.asp
“And as far as I know, after 400 years, I am the oldest living vampire” Antonio Bandera’s character Armand in Interview with a Vampire (1994) https://www.moviequotes.com/s-movie/interview-with-the-vampire/
Closing prayer: http://www.northernpaganism.org/shrines/ninesisters/ran/seawalker-ran.html
How to find us online
Episode 60 – Mighty Toys and Trinkets of the Gods
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
A Duet for Two Cats. Here sung by proper sopranos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMngXo9B_Vg , and here by some choirboys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHNeMcSdBCM
Cats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_(musical)
Tosca: https://www.operanorth.co.uk/news/tosca-in-a-nutshell/
Hamlet: https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/shakespeares-plays/hamlet/
Locking a trophy up in an office and someone has to steal it – reference to the Halloween episodes of Brooklyn 99 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2467372/
Wild Wild West – (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120891/
AT-AT – Imperial Walker from Star Wars: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/All_Terrain_Armored_Transport
Mjolnir – Thor’s Hammer https://norse-mythology.org/symbols/thors-hammer/
“Over the top lads, an intae ‘em!” Billy Connolly. Scottish Stand up comic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Connolly
Steve Rogers/ Captain America – Marvel Universe https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_America
Mr Rogers. Mr Rogers Neighbourhood: https://www.misterrogers.org/
Vision – Marvel Universe https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Vision
Thor’s belt and gauntlets give him giant-strength: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megingj%C3%B6r%C3%B0
Miu- Miu – the name Darcy gives the Mjolnir in Thor: Dark World (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981115/
Gungir – Odin’s Spear https://norse-mythology.org/gungnir/
Duke/Dux https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dux
“The Grey Pilgrim” Another name for Gandalf the Grey, The Two Towers (2002): https://www.quotes.net/mquote/120433 Draupnir – Odin’s ring: http://www.ancientpages.com/2017/07/26/draupnir-god-odins-magical-ring-multiply/
Ketil – Norse for cauldron
“Arms like noodles” Invader Zim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bsfWTQKCF0
Danger Noodles – snake in Doggo Lingo boopsnek https://www.rover.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-doggo-lingo/
Freya’s necklace Brisingamen: http://freyjafirst.com/Brisingamen.aspx
The Weirdstone of the Brisingamen book by Alan Garner https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DPZN3GK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Skidbladnir- Frey’s collapsible/ folding ship http://mytologiskplads.dk/english/the-viking-ship.html
Imperial Clipper – Elite Dangerous: https://www.alpha-orbital.com/elite/ship/imperial-clipper
Hofuth – Heimdall’s sword: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C7%ABfu%C3%B0
Gjallarhorn – Heimdall’s blowing horn, which will sound to signal the Ragnarok: https://norse-mythology.org/the-gjallarhorn/
Damage-Twigg – The Tricksters sword/staff (Laevateinn/ Haevatein) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A6vateinn
Death Star – Built by the Imperial forces in Star Wars to end the Rebel forces: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Star
Frigga and Freya have a falcon cloak/ falcon coat
Sif’s gold hair
Svalinn – the shield that protects the earth from the full power of the sun. Referenced in the Grimnismal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalinn
Odin’s High Seat
The Iron Throne – a throne made from swords in A Song of Ice and Fire, book series by GRR Martin. https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Iron_Throne
Frey’s sword: https://mythology.net/norse/norse-gods/freyr/
“Tutilary dentistry” Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar: http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/croup.htm
Forseti’s axe – from a Frisian story http://ydalir.ca/norsegods/forseti/
“Well, that could have gone better” misremembered from the opening lines of Mal Reynolds, Firefly episode 11 “Trash”
“Absolute Unit” the absolute unit sheep meme, which started with a tweet from the Museum of Rural Life: https://twitter.com/themerl/status/983341970318938112?lang=en
How to find us online
Episode 59 – Animal Companions
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Sir Ian McKellen http://www.mckellen.com/ Gandalf https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Gandalf
Kevin Bacon https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000102/ (6 degrees of Kevin Bacon) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon
Huginn and Munin – Odin’s raven companions
Ravens saying Nevermore… from Edgar Allen Poe’s poem The Raven https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven
Geri and Freki – Odin’s wolf companions
Sleipnir – Odin’s eight-legged horse, child of the trickster.
“Two tickets to that thing you love” Old Spice ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE
Very Quick and Early Waker – Sunna’s horses
Rapid Goer – Mannis horse
Teeth Bearer and Teeth Grinder – Thor’s goats
Norwegian Forest Cats: https://www.gccfcats.org/Cat-Breeds/Norwegian-Forest-Cat
Meerkats and “Simples”: Compare the Market ad Campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare_the_Meerkat
Hati and Skoll – the wolves that chase the sun and moon. Sons of Fenrir.
Garm – in Guild Wars II - the wolf that guards the gates to Hel’s realm. Treated as separate to Fenris in the Grimnismal
Cerberus – the three headed guardian of Hades https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cerberus
Syncretism – the blending or partial blending of ideas, culture or faiths. Here’s some examples of religious syncretism: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/ancient-medieval/syncretism/a/syncretism-article
Morgana le Fay and Morgose https://beyondthedreamline.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/ladies-of-legend-morgan-le-fay-and-morgause/
“make your own kind of music” Paloma Faith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHey3FIyujQ
Frostymane – the horse that pulls the chariot of night
Skinfaxi – the horse the pulls the chariot of day
Shadowfax – the name of Gandalf’s horse in Lord of the Rings https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Shadowfax
Beasts of Battle motif in Viking and Anglo-Saxon culture: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/what-are-the-beasts-of-battle
Battleboar – Freya’s boar
Golden Bristles – Frey’s boar
Pumba – warthog character from the Lion King: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Pumbaa
Ratatosk – the squirrel messenger. Kate sees him as looking like Scrat from the Ice Age films
Nithog – the dragon that eats the roots of the World Tree
Flyting – a verbal contest of insults https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flyting-was-medieval-england-s-version-of-an-insult-trading-rap-battle
The Giant Eagle who sits at the top of the World Tree.
“Neither rain nor snow nor glom of nit.” Going Postal, Terry Pratchett https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Ankh-Morpork_Post_Office
Four deer who eat the lower leaves of the World Tree
Fenrir – the wolf son of the Trickster
Jormungand – the great serpent child of the Trickster
The Familiar in classical witchcraft http://www.witchipedia.com/def:familiar
Dogs in Viking burials: (and Viking pets in general) http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/vik_pets.shtml
“For I am the cat that walks by itself, and all places are alike to me” Rudyard Kipling ‘The Cat that Walked by Himself’ http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_catwalked1.htm
“Cats sleep anywhere, any table, any chair” Cats Sleep Anywhere’ poem by Eleanor Farjeon https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cats-sleep-anywhere/
“The greater cats ” ‘The Greater Cats’ poem by Vita Sackville-West https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-greater-cats-2/
How to find us online
Rune Spotlight - Tiwaz
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Soldier by Fleurie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32W3J7XaNH8
A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away… The opening crawl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_opening_crawl
The rune Tiwaz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwaz_(rune)
Anglo Saxon Rune poem: https://anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/the-rune-poem/
Tyr - https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/the-aesir-gods-and-goddesses/tyr/ and https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Myths_of_the_Norsemen:_From_the_Eddas_and_Sagas/Tyr
Monty Python rabbit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmu5sRIizdw
Tea and no Tea: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
Guybrush Threepwood (and the rubber chicken with the pulley in the middle) https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Rubber_Chicken_With_A_Pulley_In_The_Middle
Have a Gorilla: The Goon Show http://www.thegoonshow.net/
CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy:https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/basics/cognitive-behavioral-therapy
Marie Kondo and sparking joy https://konmari.com/
How to find us online
Episode 57 – Living your Best Heathen Life - Green Heathens and 21st Centurey Ethics
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“And you’re taking away my trousers.” Armstrong and Miller, 2 Airmen Sketches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK33sl64YNw
“Their vision is based on movement.” Jurassic Park (1993) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/
“Ooooh! The Claw!” Toy Story (1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Esh4W3dfI
The Thane of Cawdor – from Macbeth https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/section1/
Elite Dangerous https://www.elitedangerous.com/
moving a piano/ The Baboon Show/ the idiots behind the sheet of glass – The Goon Show http://www.thegoonshow.net/
“We are your bona hosts” – Julian and Sandy from Around the Horne https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c7q4l/episodes/guide
Material Girl (1984) – Madonna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p-lDYPR2P8 (and that corset) http://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/10742/the-subversive-power-of-the-jean-paul-gaultier-corset
Atlantis - https://www.kidzworld.com/article/960-history-the-lost-city-of-atlantis
“Your answer to everything is triangles” Red Dwarf episode ‘Meltdown’ (1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684164/
“All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.” JM Barrie’s Peter Pan and Battlestar Galactica https://cityoftongues.com/non-fiction/all-of-this-has-happened-before/
Nova Roma – a reconstructionist group for Religio Romana http://www.novaroma.org/
Conflict and compromise in the Icelandic Sagas: https://brill.com/view/title/31238?lang=en
“See here Mars, I send you these men.” TV series Rome, season 1, Titus Pullo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BltLUwY92kk
How to find us online
Episode 56 – Norse Themes in Fiction Books
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“Are we just going to stand around, or are we going to fight?” Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tukQDg22o9M
“Too soon” Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk, with reference to the short lived cult classic TV show Firefly, especially for their promo of ConMan https://io9.gizmodo.com/nathan-fillion-and-alan-tudyk-return-to-fandom-in-new-s-1690725690
Fererro Rocher https://www.ferrero.co.uk/Ferrero-Rocher and _that advert from 1993: The Ambassadors Party : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P-nZZkQqTc (and the updated version from 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpB0r941bSg )
The dude in jeans that ran through all the walls: Levi’s 2002 ‘Freedom to Move’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fKtXFJQzo4
More cowbell – SNL ‘More Cowbell’ 2000 https://vimeo.com/241311990
The Last Kingdom – Bernard Cornwell – books and TV series
“What do we say to Death? Not today.” Sirio Florel and Arya Stark, Game of Thrones, series 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfXvs2jf2DU
“The only thing a man can do is smile back” Gladiator (2000) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgKUBnoO39I
“The pointy end goes into the other man” The Mask of Zorro (1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29FXtcCY8C0
Syiro Florel – character from Game of Thrones, series 1 https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Syrio_Forel
Bene Tleilaxu - The Facedancer assassins from Dune https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Bene_Tleilax
Eaters of the Dead – Michael Crichton – the basis for The 13th Warrior (along with elements of Beowulf) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eaters-Dead-Michael-Crichton/dp/0099222825
American Gods https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005NACYQU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 and Norse Mythology https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01LY7XGR1/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 – Neil Gaiman
The Gospel of Loki – Joanne Harris http://www.joanne-harris.co.uk/books/the-gospel-of-loki/
The Broken Sword – Poul Anderson https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004BDOK0I/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Iceland – Betsy Tobin https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00NL8Q7AK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Giants of the Frost – Kim Wilkins https://www.amazon.co.uk/Giants-Frost-Kim-Wilkins/dp/0575077212/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
The Long Dark Teamtime of the Soul – Douglas Adams https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0053PHCWG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Bloodeye – Giles Kristian (trilogy) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0031RS3IU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
The Long Ships - Frans Bengtsson https://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-Ships-Saga-Viking-Age-ebook/dp/B00GLGZX2M
The Sea Road – Margaret Elphinstone https://www.margaretelphinstone.co.uk/phdi/p1.nsf/supppages/0994?opendocument∂=6
Half a King – Joe Abercrombie (trilogy) http://www.joeabercrombie.com/books/half-a-king/
The Mere Wife – Maria Dahvanna Headley https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07CMGW2SD/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
All the Windracked Stars – Elizabeth Bear (trilogy) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003KN3WS6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
The Hobbit https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hobbit-J-R-Tolkien/dp/0007525494 / The Lord of the Rings https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002RI9176/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 – JRR Tolkien
The Way of Wyrd – Brian Bates https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004AM770U/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Young Adult
The Seafarers Kiss – Julia Ember https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07P1DB7LY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
The Boneless Mercies – Genevieve Tucholke https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078WC37JG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Middle Grade
Magnus Chase – Rick Rhiordan (series) http://rickriordan.com/series/magnus-chase-and-the-gods-of-asgard/
Secrets of Valhalla – Jasmine Richards (series) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secrets-Valhalla-Jasmine-Richards/dp/0062010107
Hilda and the Troll – graphic novel – Luke Pearson (series) https://lukepearson.com/Hilda/Hilda-and-The-Troll
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken (series) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009PMBVBG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Odd and the Frost Giants – Neil Gaiman https://www.amazon.co.uk/Odd-Frost-Giants-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0747598118
The Curse of Fenric – Dr Who episode series from 1989 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_of_Fenric
The Cartmel Master Plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartmel_Masterplan
Vikings – TV show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2306299/
The CGI version of Beowulf (2007) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0442933/
Fafnir and Sigurd - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fafnir
The animated Lord of the Rings (unfinished, 1978) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077869/
Guards, Guards – Terry Pratchett https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Book:Guards!_Guards!
How to find us online
Episode 55 – The Grave Formerly Known as Male - BJ581
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
South Park, The TARDIS and Midsummer – all places that are psychoreactive, containing just what’s needed for that week’s episode.
WHS trowels – the only ones for excavation as far as British archaeology is concerned : https://www.pasthorizonstools.com/WHS_Archaeology_trowel_p/trowhs4.htm
Raid on Lindersfarne in the Ango-Saxon chronicles – 793AD https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/lindisfarne-priory/History/viking-raid/
“on chicken legs” – Kate was thinking of the house of Baba Yaga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga
Harris Matrix a diagram which shows the relationship of features and soils to each other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_matrix
Hansard Website – the going’s on of the Houses of Parliament http://www.hansard-archive.parliament.uk/
Chair made from swords – reference to the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Iron_Throne
Oseberg Ship burial https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/
Sutton Hoo https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sutton-hoo
Ibn Fadlan’s account of the burial of a Rus Chieftain: https://ethicsofsuicide.lib.utah.edu/selections/ibn-fadlan/
Beowulf, the burial part at the end: https://www.litcharts.com/lit/beowulf/beowulf-s-funeral-lines-3110-3182
Xena, Warrior Princess https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112230/
Ocam’s razor https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
“We know nothing, Jon Snow” https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-know-nothing-jon-snow
If you want the original excavation reports and drawings from 1878: the excavators diary is in Swedish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Stolpe#/media/File:Birka_Stolpe_1875.jpg but there is a famous image of the excavated burial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Stolpe#/media/File:Viking_grave_Bj_581_in_Birka,_Sweden_by_Hjalmar_Stolpe_in_1889.png
If you want four pages from the whole thing, head here: http://historiska.se/birka/digitala-resurser/filer/pdf/Stolpe1878.pdf
Here’s the original paper announcing the osteology result in 2017: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319559178_A_female_Viking_warrior_confirmed_by_genomics
This is the most recent paper published in Feb 2019: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/viking-warrior-women-reassessing-birka-chamber-grave-bj581/7CC691F69FAE51DDE905D27E049FADCD
The Wikipedia page has some good references to explore this further: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birka_female_Viking_warrior
How to find us online
Episode 54 Storytime– Does my Beard Look Big in This?
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“When 900 years old you reach, look as good, you will not.” Yoda, Return of the Jedi (1983) https://www.deseretnews.com/top/1478/13/0When-900-years-old-you-reach0-Look-as-good-you-will-not1-Star-Wars-quotes-to-help-you.html
Dr Who – older than they look… https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Doctor%27s_age
Odo and Quark in DS9 ‘Visionary’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX-g3jIHo8U
‘borrowing’ - Granny Wetherwax from Discworld: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Borrowing
“How are your two heated towel rails? They are good.” Lenny Henry Live and Unleashed https://youtu.be/Vd6CqB144JA?t=1371
“The journey between here and the shops, well that’s just peanuts...” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy http://quotegeek.com/literature/douglas-adams/the-hitchhikers-guide-to/7229/
“What are we gonna do? I don’t know, whaddy wanna do?” the vultures from the Jungle Book (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGTWmrnPdgk
Brillo pads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brillo_Pad
“You just graduated from my pilot to my valet.” Kingsman (2014)
“I’ve never seen a man eat so many chicken wings...” 'What Would Brian Boitano Do' from the South Park movie https://youtu.be/6-Fbtd8-cSs
“Oh grandma, what big teeth you have….” Little Red Riding Hood https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/little-red-riding-hood
What’s That Noshing on my Leg? A title suggestion for Peter Benchley’s classic Jaws https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/183617631683751937?lang=en
“His eyes? Like gimlets” Terry Pratchett’s Reaper Man https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/reaper-man.html
“Thanks bridesmaid, like the beard, gives me something to hang on to!” Blackadder, ‘Bells’ season 2. http://britishcomedychannel.com/2015/12/21/lord-flashhearts-grand-entrance-blackadder-bbc/
Up All Night to get Loki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PldV6PEhn_Q And if you want Tom Hiddleston singing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XYIeJn6L58
The Church scene in Kingsman (2014) (NSFW, not suitable for all viewers) https://youtu.be/t1WWDBTda2Y
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Episode 53 – Theological Reflection – what if’s
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
The 9pm Watershed http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1738_respect/page9.shtml
Mary Whitehouse – TV Social Campaigner https://www.biographyonline.net/british/mary-whitehouse.html
The Mary Whitehouse Experience – TV Series 1990 –1992 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098858/
“Call it Christmas” by Mitch Benn - https://mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/track/call-it-christmas
The butterfly dreaming of being a man - https://philosophynow.org/issues/76/Zhuangzi_And_That_Bloody_Butterfly
‘Well, that escalated quickly.’ from Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/that-escalated-quickly
‘For the Mug!’a reference to the Hutton Orbital Truckers Guild in Elite Dangerous
Subjunctive Theological Reflection the posh title for ‘What if?’ if you want to really get into it, head here: http://www.academia.edu/9182091/Theology_in_a_Subjunctive_Mood_Reflections_on_Charles_Taylors_A_Secular_Age
‘For the want of a nail, the kingdom was lost.’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nail
‘Wolves and Bells’ - Bad News: http://www.mclub.com.ua/s_txt.phtml?sn=1593951&sid=41598
Achillies and his heel - https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Heroes/Achilles/achilles.html
Obelix – from Asterix - https://www.asterix.com/en/portfolio/obelix/
Terminator – film series starting in 1984 and ending goodness knows where… https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/terminator-timeline-guide-extremely-confusing-story-far/
‘The beast with two backs’https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/58450.html
Snoopy and the happy dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4_VMcxoxrk
‘You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means...’ Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride (1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIP6EwqMEoE
‘All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again’ https://cityoftongues.com/non-fiction/all-of-this-has-happened-before/
How to find us online
Episode 52 – Using Visualisations
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” from Macbeth. Here’s Sir Patrick Stewart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZnaXDRwu84 and here’s Sir Ian McKellen ( in 1976 looking a little younger) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LDdyafsR7g
“Babble babble...” Marilyn Manson ‘This is the New Shit’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQMDSw3Aqo
“Would you like us to lay on a turkey?” Julian and Sandy from Around the Horne. Two camp characters which openly used phrases in Polari in a radio sketch show. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/fabulosa/page6.htm
“How bona to varda your dolly old eeks.” Polari - ‘how good to see you all.’ (lit: ‘how good to see your faces’. Polari is a heavy dialect used primarily by gay men in the UK when being LGBT+ was illegal. It was a way to talk to each other without being understood by straight people – and thus avoiding being arrested and imprisoned. See here for a short film showing two men talking in Polari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8yEH8TZUsk
Milkdrop on Winamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkDrop
Fylgja in Northern spiritual practice – a personal guardian spirit which may take the shape of an animal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fylgja
Familiar – in Western witchcraft traditions, is an animal with which a witch or warlock shares energy or traits to help augment their own abilities. https://exemplore.com/wicca-witchcraft/Witches-Familiars
‘Step three: profit’ – Underpants Gnomes from South Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park)
“Be mindful of the living force my young Padawan” Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. https://tzbarry.com/2016/12/15/phantom-menace/
“No sacrifice, no victory.” from the Transformers Soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xrQ8wzGiQM
Two short visualisations that Suzanne has written – you are welcome to use these as they are, change them if you want to, create your own – have a play and see what works for you.
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html
How to find us online
Episode 51 – Pagan and or Heathen
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
The Mothman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman
Dyatlov Pass Incident https://allthatsinteresting.com/dyatlov-pass-incident-photos
‘Ragged idiot / a man with a military bearing… / you’re horrible, arent’ you?/ written down on a piece of paper.’ it’s all The Goon Show. Here you go: http://www.thegoonshow.net/
“Not now, Kato!” A running gag from the Pink Panther Films – Peter Sellers at his finest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA8QrOAghZ0
“Ich bin ein Berliner...” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner
“It’s velour” Zapp Brannigan from Futureama https://youtu.be/PfCyctzyi_8
Preconscious brain – Freudian concept of information which you can recall easily with the correct mental prod, but that isn’t continuously conscious. For instance, your first telephone number, the colour of your current car, name of your first pet.
Schrodingers heathen… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
“I would like, if I may…. heavy, black and pendulous” paraphrased from Rocky Horror Picture Show (stage 1973, film 1975) part of a traditional narrator/audience exchange in performances of the Rocky Horror Show:
https://www.quotes.net/mquote/1058644
The Wicker Man: (indirect reference via the Botanic Gardens used as the setting):
https://www.findingthewickerman.co.uk/logan-botanic-gardens
‘sleekit’ Scottish Dorric slang for slippery, evasive. "Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie" - Robert Burns, "To a Mouse"
Chaucer, naked in A Knights Tale: https://youtu.be/sCG8EaaaQeI
“Covered in Bees!” Eddie Izzard on Beekeepers:
https://youtu.be/2aFJCfoi8FU
Well Dressings https://www.visitpeakdistrict.com/whats-on/well-dressings
“Tottenham Court Road is the Midlands” - Lola, Kinky Boots https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/KinkyBoots
Kemetic – faith in and the reconstruction of Egyptian classical religion http://www.kemet.org/
Filthy Basker, filthy trucker – both references to Elite Dangerous, being a supporter of the fictional Empire, and belonging to the Hutton Truckers guild.
Henotheism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism
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Episode 50 – The Rune Poems
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Romulan Cloaking Device: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Cloaking_device
“Good Game, Good Game!” Catchphrase of Bruce Forsyth https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/good-game-good-game-bruce-forsyth-revolutionised-saturday-night/
Astonishing Legends Podcast https://www.astonishinglegends.com/
Marshmallows and S’mores https://whatscookingamerica.net/Cookie/Smores/Smores.htm Suzanne knows a variation on this which is a toasted marshmallow squashed between two rich tea biscuits.
Bovine Bank Accounts – Frithcast Episode 28
Maeshowe http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/maeshowe/maeshrunes.htm
Thames Scramsax: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=86215&partId=1 you can see a modern replica here: https://www.medieval-arms.co.uk/detail/id/1698/name/beagnoth-sax-sword-thames-scramasax-
Lincoln Comb Case https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=274572001&objectId=65237&partId=1
Pictograms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictogram
“That’s just peanuts to space” from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy http://hitchhikersguidequotes.tumblr.com/post/13945214509/space-is-big-really-big-you-just-wont-believe
Mnemonics https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-mnemonics.html
The NATO phonetic alphabet https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_150391.htm
Star Classifications – Oh! Be a fine girl kiss me http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~pac/obafgkmrns.html
Bruce Dickins: Runic and Heroic Poems free PDF: http://www.arild-hauge.com/PDF/Runic%20and%20heroic%20poems%20of%20the%20old%20Teutonic%20peoples.pdf
(not this Bruce Dickinson: https://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/article/8x5byp/bruce-dickinson-has-no-time-for-bullshit )
“We shall call him Zatarra” – The Count of Monte Cristo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi9bEzpYQF4
“Sapristy Yako!” Running joke from Moriarty in The Goon Show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show_running_jokes
“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY4cnMmo9qw (3 scenes from the film, The Princess Bride, 1988)
Netflix’s Bandersnatch (potential spoilers ahead): https://www.thewrap.com/black-mirror-bandersnatch-netflix-endings-references-charlie-brooker-embarrassed/
Lord of the Rings Trilogy extended cut: http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Extended_Edition
Anglo Saxon riddles: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sll/disciplines/english/beowulf/riddle.htm
Kennings – compound metaphors: http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/changlang/activities/lang/anglosaxon/anglosax.html
Star Trek Next Generation episode: Darmok http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Darmok_(episode)
Aleph – first letter of the Hebrew alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph
Dotted runes: https://www.britannica.com/topic/runic-alphabet
The fourth rune poem (list): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abecedarium_Nordmannicum
‘30 days hath September’: https://interestingliterature.com/2018/09/11/a-short-analysis-of-the-thirty-days-hath-september-rhyme/
William McGonogall, hailed as the writer of the worst poetry available in the English language: http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/ :
That one author that significantly changes the order of the runes (and has 25 runes): https://www.amazon.com/Book-Runes-25th-Anniversary-Bestselling/dp/0312536763
Russian Cyrillic script: http://www.russianforeveryone.com/RufeA/Lessons/Introduction/Alphabet/Alphabet.htm
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky
The Quangle Wangle’s Hat by Edward Lear - http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-quangle-wangles-hat/
How to find us online
Episode 49 – The Seeress in the Saga
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“Don’t run, we are your friends.” - from Mars Attacks! (1996) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Attacks!
Lagertha – from the TV series Vikings: http://vikings.wikia.com/wiki/Lagertha
Dallas – TV series (1978 – 1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077000/
Dynasty – TV series (1981 – 1989) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_(1981_TV_series)
Eastenders – TV series (1985 onwards) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088512/
Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harald-I-king-of-Denmark
Blue and red contact points for a car battery: you can see the red and blue markers on these pictures: https://www.wikihow.com/Clean-Battery-Terminals
Thing – an annual meeting or gathering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly)
The Saga of Erik the Red – (Chapter 4 has the visit of Thorbjorg the seeress). http://sagadb.org/eiriks_saga_rauda.en
The fox, chicken and bag of grain: a logic puzzle/ brainteaser https://riddlesbrainteasers.com/fox-chicken-sack-grain/
Itinerant fixers: Supernatural(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460681/), Michael Knight (http://knight-rider.wikia.com/wiki/Michael_Knight) , The Littlest Hobo https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078644/ , David Banner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Hulk_(1978_TV_series)
How to find us online
Episode 48 – Now We Are Two – The Second Random Reel
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Airplane mode
An Idris Elba Shaped Wish
Animals of Bohemia
Basingstoke and Giggleswick
Brain Fart
Buttons Beans and Bobs
Click Queen
Cold Coffee Mode
Kate reads Cassius
Chicken, Fox, Duck, Grain and Kate
Handwriting Squiggle
Kate Calls for a Fluffer
Kate Moves the World Wasp
Long Loooong Maaaaaan
The Definition of Cheese
The Passion of Archaeologists
The Quality of the Mirror Universe
Three Little Norns from School take one
Too Slow Chicken Merengo
Trout a la Creme
Two Sneezes
Unofficial Squirrel
We’ve been doing Frithcast for two years. Forty eight regular episodes and a good handful of Extras. You’ve been listening to a heathen and a coffee-powered Druid chatter on for two years. And you, lovely listeners, are the reason that we have. So, we’d like to say thank you, in the only way that we can: to celebrate our second birthday, we’d like to present you with a very special episode. As last years random reel, we present clips of some of the funny moments that didn’t quite make it to the episodes.
Thank you from us to you, we hope you enjoy, and carry on listening :)
Suzanne and Kate
Episode 47 – Heathenry on a Budget
Shout out and big wave to Ethan Finley for suggesting the topic for this episode.
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Total Immersion video games https://www.quora.com/Why-has-virtual-reality-and-total-immersion-video-gaming-been-slow-to-evolve
Better than Life - Red Dwarf episode, Season 2, episode 2, originally aired September 1988 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Than_Life_(Red_Dwarf_episode)
Phoebe Buffay – Character from Friends (1994 – 2004) https://friends.fandom.com/wiki/Phoebe_Buffay
Schrodinger’s Cat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOYyCHGWJq4
47 and Star Trek http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/47 (not just confined to Star Trek - https://www.higgypop.com/news/47-reference/ )
11:21 and X-Files - http://www.lunacynet.com/xfiles/xf1013.html
Greeting in Latin: Ave and Salve https://blogs.transparent.com/latin/latin-greetings/ to hear it spoken, head here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3PPtY-YPHo
Havamal translations on the internet – there are a good number available for you to read and study. Here are some bits to get you started:
Dr Jackson Crawford (long video!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veRChLMC20o
Bellows translation http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe04.htm
Thorpe, Hollander and Bellows can be found here: http://www.heathenhof.com/the-havamal-3-translations/
Auden and Taylor’s translation is here: https://www.ragweedforge.com/havamal.html
For books: check out your local library stock or ask about inter-library loans, or getting copies of academic papers. They may cost a small fee this way, but it’s often cheaper than buying a copy for yourself.
Befriend librarians – they are your friend in your ongoing research.
The Libraran – from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. He’s an Orangutan. Don’t, whatever you do, call him a monkey. https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Librarian
If you really, really want a copy for yourself – look at second-hand book finding companies, e-book editions (there are several e-book readers that have apps for smartphones), or pre-loved copies available at your favourite online book seller.
Lint rollers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_remover
Universities can also be useful – if they do relevant courses, ask the department admin staff very nicely for a copy of the course reading list. Some University libraries will allow non-students to access the materials – you may have to apply for a library card, and may not be able to lend materials, but study them inside the library building.
Check museums for their collections – some have pictures and descriptions of their collection items online, or special themed events/ lectures hosted at the museum. Museum staff may also be able to help you with little nuggets of specialist knowledge, or help your find other appropriate contacts. There’s a good starting place in the British Museum Room 41, of which there are plenty of photos and video online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaYYxVWruB8
There are lots of academics/ authors directly available to follow through the wonders of social media – check on hashtags, look for favourite academics, or authors of your favourite non-fiction books and see what they’re posting about.
Mjolnir’s are available, along with other Norse themed jewellery, for all budgets and styles. You can get them in bronze, pewter, iron, silver, gold, in wood, clay, bone, glass, pretty much any material that you’d like to try. There are copies of archaeological finds, modern or plain designs, ones inset with stones or crystal, so it’s pretty much up to you. If you want to wear one. It’s optional not mandatory.
Books on Wicca tend to emphasise having plenty of tools or items to aid in doing ritual. Again it’s personal and up to you. We’ve found Scott Cunningham’s books and Issac Bonewit’s books as good places to start.
Relevant academic papers and some PhD thesis are available online for free – some papers may need you to have access to a service, like JSTOR or Wiley. You may still be able to read the abstract online without having to pay. You may be able to get a copy of the paper through your local library (much cheaper than buying a copy through getting a JSTOR account for yourself), either by putting a request into the library to get a copy of it, or the library may have account access to JSTOR.
Guttenberg Project – go! Go find free books! https://www.gutenberg.org/
There’s one more source of info that’s invaluable in studying and research – other heathens! Ask questions online about what others have found useful, for book or article recommendations, or for a bit of encouragement as you delve into your own research :)
How to find us online
Episode 46 – Theological Reflection
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Airplane! (1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/
Praxis – the Klingon energy facility http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Praxis
Duracell Bunny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duracell_Bunny
The Praxis Effect https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-praxis-effect-in-movies
Thagomiser – after Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoon commemorating the late Thag Simmons - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/watch-out-for-that-thagomizer-98891562/
Beer Goggles https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beer%20goggles
The Raven on the Ark: https://www.gotquestions.org/Noah-raven-dove.html
“Step three… profit...” Paraphrased from the Underpants Gnomes Business Plan in South Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5sxLapAts (Season 2, episode 17 - ‘Gnomes’)
Greek myths held social values and acceptable actions https://brewminate.com/the-function-of-mythology-in-ancient-greek-society/
Pax Daeorum http://www.ancientpages.com/2018/05/01/what-was-pax-deorum-and-how-important-was-it/
Starting a reflective journal: https://penzu.com/how-to-write-a-reflective-journal and https://www.thecounsellorscafe.co.uk/single-post/2017/01/22/Reflective-Journaling-A-Step-by-Step-Guide
“There are many like them, but these ones are yours...” Paraphrased from the Rifleman’s Creed – used in the film Full Metal Jacket (1987), based on Gustav Hasford’s book The Short Timers (1979)
“Brains like Noodles...” Paraphrased from Invader Zim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bsfWTQKCF0
47 – The repeating Star Trek number http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/47 (and also from Alias)
The process of theological reflection:
1) Define the issue
2) Describe the issue in as much detail as you can
3) Look at parallels and links within your faith
4)Allow those insights and links to widen your thinking about the issue
5) Praxis – it’s action time! What are you doing to do now?
If you’d like to explore Theological Reflection for yourself, there’s a good book out there – it does focus on the Christian traditions, but the methods are the same. “Theological Reflection” by Judith Thompson 2008 (SCM Study Guides)
How to find us online
Episode 45 – The Binding of Loki
Shout out to Rob Wessley from Australia for suggesting the topic for this episode
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Throughout this episode we refer to Loki as he/him. If you know them by other pronouns (they do change their species and gender after all), such as she/her, they/them or something else, it’s all good. Our choice of pronouns may not reflect your valid experiences of the Trickster.
Lemuralia – Roman festival of the dead, originally celebrated in May, rather than October. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Lemuralia.html
Dr Peter Venkman – from Ghostbusters https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/characters/nm0000195
The Binding of Issac http://bindingofisaac.wikia.com/wiki/The_Binding_of_Isaac_Wiki
The Binding of Loki can be found in two sources: The Poetic Edda: Lokasenna and in the Prose Edda Gylfaginning 50.
Talking tricksters: Frithcast episode 26
Spirograph https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toys/creativity-music-and-partyware/art-sets/the-original-spirograph-design-set-boxed/p/149468
Battlestar Galactica (remake) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)
Metaphor in The Book of Revelation. Here: https://bibleforums.org/showthread.php/223165-Metaphor-or-Symbol-how-to-interpret-the-book-of-Revelation and here: https://readingacts.com/2012/04/06/revelation-and-metaphors/
Celtic Salmon of Knowledge http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/salmonknowledge.htm
How to find us online
Episode 44 – Ghost Seal Whack-a-Mole – Erbyggja Saga
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
David Lister in Red Dwarf – Season 3, episode 4 ‘Bodyswap’. First shown 1989
The Festivals of the Dead – come with many names – All Hallows e’en, Halloween, Samhain, The Nights of the Dead
Erbyggja Saga – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyrbyggja_saga
The lineage of King David in the Bible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidic_line
Seamus Heaney’s re-interpretation of Beowulf – he starts with the word ‘So’, rather than the traditional ‘Listen!’
Dallas (TV show) 1978 – 1991 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077000/
Dynasty (TV Show) 1981 – 1989 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081856/
Crossroads (TV Show) 1964 – 1988 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057741/
Emmerdale Farm (TV Show) 1972 onwards https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068069/
Coronation Street (TV Show) 1960 onwards https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053494/
Eastenders (TV Show) 1985 onwards https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088512/
The Archers (Radio show) 1950 0nwards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Archers
Draugr – a type of Norse undead with a specific description. Often those who malevolently haunt their own grave and the surrounding areas, attacking livestock and people, and damaging property. http://www.ancientpages.com/2018/04/03/draugr-vikings-feared-living-dead-with-prophetic-visions/
Rasputin – his (possibly) notable death : https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/murder-rasputin-100-years-later-180961572/
Christine – book (and subsequent film) by Stephen King https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/jan/30/rereading-stephen-king-christine
‘Little black seeds’ Vampires may have a compulsion to count spilled poppy seeds, so spending all their time until dawn. https://www.axs.com/dispatching-vampires-a-short-tutorial-98602
“That’s how you get ants.” Archer - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486217/
‘Shuffled off this mortal coil’ The Norwegian Parrot Sketch, Monty Python
Ghostbusters – (1984) ‘the woman in the library scene’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYjFKsJjCP0
Ghostbusters – ‘the green goo scene’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qWNuO36mGg
Thorgunna Lawson – parody reference to the celebrity chef Nigela Lawson
Kiss from a Rose – Seal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9aiBlIpyKU
The Mothman Prophecies (2002) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265349/
‘Stop! Hammer time!’ MC Hammer ‘U can’t touch this’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo
Ex-Machina (2015) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/
Supernatural (TV Show) (2005) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460681/
Grim (TV Show) (2011 – 2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1830617/
‘If you have poo, fling it now’ from Madagascar (2005) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgUwpb3I98M
How to find us online
‘Foul not fowl’ From The Goon Show ‘The Affair of the Lone Banana’ http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e05_the_affair_of_the_lone_banana
Our (very late) introduction
Episode 43 – Beer and Worry – favourite verses from the Havamal
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
GIR – from Invader Zim (TV series 2001 – 2004) http://zim.wikia.com/wiki/GIR
“Thirteen!” from Rome Season 1, episode 11, ‘The Spoils’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spoils_(Rome)
The first time we looked at the Havamal: Frithcast episode 4: https://tac.podbean.com/e/frithcast-episode-4/
Yawning: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140811-warning-this-may-make-you-yawn
The pilot episode of Star Trek and that whole numbering thing: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=577426
And the reference to it in South Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQLQ56tkO6Y&feature=youtu.be
Correction: The Havamal is a collection of pieces, not one single poem. Just, so’s you know.
Roman legions: https://www.toptenz.net/10-horrifying-facts-roman-legions.php
The inherent difficulties of working with translations: http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/5699/8/08_chapter%202.pdf
“Better it is to have a stout heart always and face your troubles...” Herodotus. Herodotus, George Rawlinson (1996). “Histories”, p.533, Wordsworth Editions.
Declaration 127: http://www.declaration127.com/
There’s several versions of the Havamal available for free online and there are many translations. Head here to see a whole list of documents and commentary that you can go look at: http://www.germanicmythology.com/PoeticEdda2/Havamal.html
Translations – here’s 6 to get you going:
Larrington (1996 and 2014) http://www.germanicmythology.com/PoeticEdda2/LarringtonHavamal.html
Bray (1908) https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html
Thorpe (1865) http://www.heathenhof.com/benjamin-thorpes-havamal/
Hollander (1962) http://www.heathenhof.com/lee-m-hollanders-havamal/
Bellows (1923) http://www.heathenhof.com/h-a-bellows-havamal/
Auden and Taylor (1967) http://ragweedforge.com/havamal.html
Other folks have also tried their hand at translation: https://www.beyondweird.com/high-one.html
Dr Jackson Crawford’s ‘The Cowboy Havamal’ (2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-2p9qVSAa4
How to find us online
Episode 42 – Beasts of Battle
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Kate’s slight diversion into Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. You can read along here: http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.1.one.html
‘The Beasts of Battle’ - the eagle, the raven and the wolf, often referred to as a group in company of each other. http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/beasts.shtml
Anglo-Saxon literature, including Beowulf – uses them as a foreshadow, or feasting on the dead after battle. A negative image.
Jaws theme music – used as a precursor or foreshadow to shark attacks in the 1975 film, Jaws. If you need a reminder of what it sounds like, head here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV8i-pSVMaQ
Go-Pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV8i-pSVMaQ
The reasons for those sharks-eye view shots: http://www.cracked.com/article_24010_6-classic-movie-moments-made-possible-by-dumb-mistakes.html and http://www.cracked.com/article_16940_6-classic-movies-that-narrowly-avoided-disaster.html
Pavlov – a scientist who explored the way that animals could associate a ringing bell with the production of food, this became known as Classical Conditioning: https://www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html
“They’re going to cut us to pieces, roast us over an open fire, and eat us!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu6ZpVlzhUk
OE poem: The Wanderer http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=wdr
OE poem: Beowulf
OE poem: Judith https://anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/judith/
OE poem: Exodus https://anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/exodus/
Anubis – the Jackal-headed Egyptian god of the dead https://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/anubis.html
OE poem: The Battle of Maldon https://anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/battle-of-maldon/
Space Marine Chapter. Marines. In Space. With plenty of different Chapters to choose from. http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Pictorial_List_of_Space_Marine_Chapters_A-L
Dehumanisation of enemies – a stage of Genocide http://www.genocidewatch.org/genocide/8stagesofgenocide.html and https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/philosophy-dispatches/201112/dehumanization-genocide-and-the-psychology-indifference-0
Sutton Hoo – Wolves and birds imagery, especially on the shield http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1433758 and decorative purse flap. http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1433755
Viking literature: Poetic Edda – uses them as a positive image, often in praise of an individual warrior.
“He fed the eagle out in Greece” From the Invar Runestones, identification number ‘SO 179’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingvar_runestones and
They journeyed boldly; /Went far for gold, Fed the eagle / Out in the east, And died in the south / In Saracenland —Gripsholm Rune-Stone (c. 1050)
Berserker- Have a read here: http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/berserke.shtml
Bayeux tapestry - the raven banner imagery. There are two images here, one banner with a hopeful force, and the second as an empty banner trampled under horse as the force is routed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_banner
Ravens in Norse culture – Hugin and Munin: http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-riddle-of-odins-ravens.html
Odin’s companion wolves – Geri and Freki: https://earthandstarryheaven.com/2015/02/07/1-mythological-wolves-garm-fenrir-and-loki/
Roman eagles: https://www.romeartlover.it/Bestiario.html
The Wolf Age – is described just before the Ragnarok battles happen. https://thenorsegods.com/norse-mythology/
Vargar (wolves) – outlaws and criminals are described as this in the law codes: http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/beasts.shtml
Garm and Fenrir. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garmr here: https://norse-mythology.org/garm/ and here: http://www.loridevoti.com/fenrir-garm-wolves-norse-myth/
Shrieking violins - Suzanne was thinking about Psycho (1960) and the shower scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WtDmbr9xyY
1812 Overture – go have a listen, it’s awesome :) Especially this version: (and yes, it’s got the cannons.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko5Bz6h55us
That song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w
You deserve a bonus for getting this far, have a virtual cookie and a bit of something different. We both like flashmobs when they’re done well – like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6W2ZMpsxhg
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Episode 41 – Laughter Good, Jokes Bad
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Life, the Universe and Everything/ Vroomfondle and Magicthighs/ Deep Thought/ Knowing Where your Towel is: all from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
Laconic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconic_phrase
Spartans - “This is Spelling!” Ahem, paraphrased from Frank Millers 300: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416449/
Winnie the Pooh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh
Eir, Goddess of Healing, as an attendant of Frigga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eir
The character of Garm in Guild Wars 2: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Garm
Garmin - sat nav makers: https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/
That loo roll, what we got all confused with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmin
‘Too soon…’An Indiegogo campaign from 2015 from Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/con-man#/
Diana Paxson https://diana-paxson.com/
Scorpio/ Scorpius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpius
I, Claudius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Claudius_(TV_series)
Ribbit – Frogs and the Hollywood Accent http://www.frog-shots.com/Who_says_RIBBIT_.html
Pirates what go ‘Arrrh’ http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2007/06/did_pirates_really_say_arrrr.html?via=gdpr-consent
“Try a little tenderness” Donkey from the film Shrek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMaFjEH1B0g
“In a dark, dark town” Funnybones by Allan Ahlberg https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/40987/funnybones/9780241334690/
The one about ducks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFK2Xq2RyiU
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Episode 40 – Ethics and Practicalities of Rune Reading II
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Phobia of patterns of holes – yes, it’s a thing: https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/01/07/phobia-of-irregular-hole-patterns-may-be-tied-to-disgust-not-fear/130882.html
Coffee from a packet – have a listen way back in Episode 1
Cawdor – From the Shakespeare play, Macbeth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth In particular the production by Oddsocks Theatre Company http://www.oddsocks.co.uk/
Find your nearest loo – preferably before you start reading for your first client
Take a bottle of water with you – you’re going to be doing a lot of talking, and you might not get chance to get a drink otherwise
Take a box of tissues with you – it helps preserve the dignity of your clients. A large box, not a packet of pocket tissues, else you’ll end up giving the whole packet to your first client, and then you’re without...
Decide how long each reading will take – balance how long you can talk with how many you want to do in one event. This will affect how much profit you make (if you charge at all) and how late the event will end up running… When you start out, you might only want to do a few, with ample breaks in between – be kind to yourself and your developing skills, don’t overface yourself in your first few events.
Spread – not Marmite – but a set pattern that you can lay runes out in, or you might choose to drop all of them, and pick three at random.
If you’re doing an event, such as a psychic night, ensure that you know what the cut is from your money beforehand – does someone else collect the money, do you collect it and pay a percentage or fee afterwards? Do people buy tickets beforehand and you get a set price for the whole evening? Know what to expect before you attend.
Practice a set spiel before you actually get to the casting part – it helps your client know what to expect, and helps you settle into the whole process. Repeating that set opening every time you cast will become a type of meditation for you – a way that you can get your brain into the right place before you start.
Think about that you want to say if you get nothing from the runes for your client – do you manage their expectations beforehand, or just explain it as it comes up? There will be occasions when the connection doesn’t happen, it doesn’t matter how experienced you are, or how much knowledge you have, it doesn’t have to be anything that you’ve done wrong or differently.
Don’t poke the smiling old man with a broom… especially in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld and the character of Lu-Tze https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Lu-Tze
Most of the time, the images, words, smells or other messages will not make sense to you – have a think on whether it’s ethical for you to moderate what you get in telling your client, or is it more ethical not to moderate it?
UK specific – some people may come to you expecting it’s for ‘entertainment purposes only’, and you tell them what you’re getting, and you say something that hits home, they may not be expecting that. Manage the expectations and confidentiality of your client from the beginning.
Decide whether you want to invite your clients to comment on your words afterwards, or not. Don’t expect this of them, some clients may not want to share. As a reader – get used to disappointment and not getting closure from your client.
A few words on dealing with sceptics: as a reader, you can choose to read for them, or not. They may be angry, scared or defiant and aim it at you. Ultimately a sceptic chooses what to believe. As a reader, so do you.
Pass Go and collect $200 – the wonders of Monopoly. https://monopoly.hasbro.com/en-gb
There are many ethical considerations that you can have a think about before your first client sits down with you. Keep client confidentiality in mind, and think about any circumstances that you might break that – if someone discloses abuse to you, for example. How might you handle that in the best way for your client?
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Episode 39 – Ethics and Practicalities of Rune Reading I
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
This episode is purely UPG, and is the things that Suzanne has considered when casting runes for others. It’s not the only way to approach this, there are many things to consider when you cast runes and interpret them. It’s also the first one of a two-parter – the discussion went on a little longer that we thought it would, and so we’ve split it into two.
“Warm knees!” Havmal verse 3
“There are many models and they have a plan” paraphrased from Battlestar Galactica opening https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/crazycredits
Transformers Before all the Michael bay films, there was a children’s cartoon: https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-gb
“That goes for you two idiots with your eyes closed behind the sheet of glass” From The Goon Show episode Napoleons Piano, first broadcast 11th October 1955
1812 Overture: https://www.classicfm.com/lifestyle/wellbeing/1812-overture/
Schrodinger’s dog… ok, so the original is Schrodingers cat: http://www.iflscience.com/physics/schr%C3%B6dinger%E2%80%99s-cat-explained/
Feynman diagrams – used to describe particle interactions in physics: https://www.quantumdiaries.org/2010/02/14/lets-draw-feynman-diagams/
Jason Momoa – like he needs an introduction from us: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0597388/
Cylon’s – from Battlestar Galactica, especially nice in the reboot 2004 - 2009
“Have a gorilla” Running gag in The Goon Show, most often said by the character Grytpype-Thynne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show_running_jokes
“Tonight Matthew, I’m going to be…” line from ‘Stars in Their Eyes’ (TV show 1990 - 2006) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_in_Their_Eyes
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins young adult dystopian book trilogy, which was them made into films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games
“A mug of your finest hot water with brown grit in it” – Mrs Miggins Pie Shop, Blackadder
http://blackadder.wikia.com/wiki/Mrs._Miggins
Vitki – someone who specialises in talismanic uses of runes
The runic graffiti of Maeshowe: http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/maeshowe/maeshrunes.htm
When you cast runes for someone else, there are practical and ethical things to consider:
Using runes for self reflection.
Consider whether you want to charge for reading runes for someone else. There is no right answer for this.
Tea leaf-omancy – otherwise known as tasseography: http://www.teausa.com/14531/reading-tea-leaves
Legal considerations: UK Trading Standards Regulations: “This service is for entertainment purposes only” Many places across the world require psychics, diviners or oracles to have a disclaimer on their services: see example here: https://propsychicreadings.com/psychic-tarot-reading-legal-disclaimer/
The Witchcraft Act (replaced by the Fraudulent Mediums Act in 1951)
Squiddly spooge: from Invader Zim episode Dark Harvest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37ERbN2eb0o
Gardenarian Wicca http://british-wicca.com/
The Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 (now incorporated into UK Trading Standards Regulations)
See here for a short overview of UK law relating to witchcraft https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/religion/overview/witchcraft/
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Episode 38 – Musical Kennings
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Hogswatch/ Soul Cake Duck – both from the Discworld, Terry Pratchett
Yes, there is the heathen equivalent of an Easter Egg hidden away in one of our earlier episodes… ssssshhh, don’t tell everyone.
“That’s a good cup’o’joe.” Monsters vs Aliens (2009) https://www.videodetective.com/movies/monsters-vs-aliens-good-cup-of-joe/963754
Kenning – the Havamal example
the rune poem: ‘the sea-horse on the whale road’
If you want to read more about kennings:
“to ken” in Scot’s dialect
the rune Kennaz
That episode in Start Trek: The Next Generation – “Darmok” (season 5, episode 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok and http://www.startrek.com/article/one-trek-mind-deciphering-darmok
Spartans at Thermopylae https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Thermopylae-Greek-history-480-BC
Earth to Asgard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWmfIacPS94
Freya: Salute by Little Mix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjpa0SMOug0 RESPECT – Aretha Franklin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOUqQt3Kg0
Frey: “You don’t half look like your picture,” Summertime by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr0tTbTbmVA Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UVjjcOUJLE Diablo Roja by Rodrigo e Gabriella https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgvaEHbeY2k you can watch them playing it live here (with an extra twiddly bit in the middle) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT9hvyDvKHA
Hel Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvsMPOfblfg
Skathi Life on Earth by Snow Patrol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqYWcp1JH7Y
Baldur Shine by Take That https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwC1Ctrj6Xk Titanium by Sia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRfuAukYTKg
Ragnarok Skyfall by Adele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HKoqNJtMTQ Broadsword by Jethro Tull https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVBT6wktF5E Come with Me Now by Kongos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz2GVlQkn4Q
Einherjar The theme from Police Academy (1984). For a more eloquent exploration of reasoning, see this article: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-dumb-movies-with-disproportionately-awesome-theme-songs/
Being played by a police band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjWkTm4nTg4
Midgard Hammer of Bronze by Robert Falkenstein http://www.odins-gift.com/poth/H/hammerofbronze.htm
I’m a Human Being by Sandi Thom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFCVuvC9iF8
Frigga’s relationship with Odin The First Time (ever I saw your face) by Roberta Flack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_UYLPSn6U
Loki tied to the rocks, calling out to Odin Hello by Adele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A
“Covered in bees!” Eddie Izzard, from his Glorious tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs-tl6GBOBo
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Episode 37 – Thor’s Journey to Utgard (Part 2)
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- Working Men’s Clubs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_men%27s_club
- Derby and Joan Clubs – post-war social clubs for senior citizens, often with light entertainment, live music, board games and light refreshments. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darby_and_Joan and https://www.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk/Uploads/Documents/About%20us/Darby_and_Joan.pdf
- ‘Born to Rune’ Reference to a new leather robe that the Dean makes in Terry Pratchett’s Soul Music published in 1994 http://discworld.wikia.com/wiki/Soul_Music
- ‘That Stone Guy from Ragnarok’ - Korg. See https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/11/05/five-brilliant-hidden-jokes-you-probably-missed-in-thor-ragnarok/#5d7c20236c5c
- Thing 1 and Thing 2 – Dr Seuss, The Cat in the Hat http://seuss.wikia.com/wiki/Thing_One_and_Thing_Two
- “The hero Midgard deserves, not the hero Midgard needs...” parody of The Dark Knight (2008)(ending scene) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2jPwMM7Do4 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_(film)
- “Breaker of crockery.” From Thor (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOztBBSqDTM
- “You won’t like me when I’m hangry.” Parody of ‘You Won’t like me when I’m angry’, most famously from The Hulk. Head here for the trope: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry and here for the Hulk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_(comics)
- “Thor shot first.” Parody of ‘Han Shot First.” Star Wars (IV:A New Hope) – referencing a scene which was changed in the Special Edition of Star Wars, to show Han Solo shooting a bounty hunter in response to being shot at. The original showed him shooting the bounty hunter first (which gives a much better start to his character arc from rogue to hero.) http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Han_shot_first
- Tricksters and hunger/food – Head back to Frithcast episode 26
- Pac Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man
- “Would the Real Slim Shady please stand up?” Slim Shady is an alter-ego of the rapper Eminem, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Slim_Shady
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Episode 36 – Thor’s Journey to Utgard (Part 1)
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
- Prime Numbers - https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/pre-algebra-factors-multiples/pre-algebra-prime-numbers/v/prime-numbers
- “George, don’t do that.” from the wonderful Joyce Grenfell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXhHFgDRNBQ
- “Stand back! I’m making toast!” The epic toast making scene from Invader Zim - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ntiphuey8g
- The Odd Couple (1968) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odd_Couple_(film)
- Stadler and Waldorf – from The Muppets – the two elderly gentlemen known for their cantankerous opinions. If you want to see them in action, head here for a compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6I_dKUYyI4
- “We could do ‘get help!’” from Thor Ragnarok (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZakOJlRoY
- Thors Journey to Utgard – other versions that you can have an explore around:
- http://thenorsegods.com/thors-journey-to-utgard/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6XeP9gQPmg
- https://norse-mythology.org/tale-utgarda-loki/
- Tolkien’s Middle Earth http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Middle-earth
- Titus Andronicus - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/moveable-type/pdfs/2009-10/ArticleGregg-TitusAndronicus.pdf
- “Meow Meow” What Darcy, Jane Fosters sister called Mjolnir in Thor (2011), and Thor: The Dark World (2013)
- “Did you have PPI missold?” https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/advice/i-think-ive-been-mis-sold-ppi-what-should-i-do
- “The first rule of Goat Club...” paraphrased from Fight Club (1999)
- Forty days and forty nights – a biblical metaphor for a long time.
- “Frodo leaves the shire, arrives at Mordor, drops the ring in – job done.” - The short, short version of JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.
- Peter Dinklages dwarf-giant in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) (spoilers in the link) http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/the-avengers/feature/a855259/avengers-infinity-war-peter-dinklage-eitri/
- Seven League Boots – see also Ten League Boots – common in fairy tales, such as this one originally written in French: http://www.tenleagueboots.com/company/little-thumb/index.html
- Langoliers – TV mini series 1995 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112040/
- Gordian Knot - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot
- “Everything’s fine, la, la, la, just getting a bucket.” Calvin and Hobbes comic strip 12th August 1988
- Thing One and Thing Two – Dr Seuss, The Cat in the Hat: http://seuss.wikia.com/wiki/Thing_One_and_Thing_Two
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