10 - Viking Age Ireland
Viking Age Podcast
Viking Age Podcast
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we get the lay of the political, religious and social landscape of Viking Age Ireland.
Now, while it might seem excessive to spend an entire episode on Ireland in a Podcast about Vikings, it is essential to understand the nature of Irish politics and culture prior to the arrival of Scandinavians. Spending time on this now will help us put Norse-Irish interaction into perspective, and help to explain the sometimes surprising role that Scandinavians were to play in Ireland over the coming centuries.
Plus, this stuff is just plain interesting! So I hope you enjoy.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Viking Age podcast. My name is Lee and this episode 10, Viking Age Ireland. |
| 0:11.9 | This is a community-supported podcast, which means that we are reliant upon listeners like you to help us continue this project. |
| 0:19.6 | One of the best and easiest ways for you to help us is to leave us a review on iTunes. |
| 0:26.5 | Now, a bunch of you have already left us some absolutely amazing comments, and these literally |
| 0:31.7 | make me jump up and down with joy every time I read them. |
| 0:35.5 | And sadly, I'm not exaggerating here. Just ask my poor, |
| 0:40.2 | incredibly patient girlfriend. So to all of you have already left reviews, thank you so much. |
| 0:47.6 | And if you haven't had the chance yet, you can simply open up the podcast app, search for |
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| 1:13.1 | audience. So, thank you. All right, plug over. Now on to the history. So, after talking about |
| 1:24.0 | the first Viking raids in England, we've spent the last couple of episodes |
| 1:27.8 | in southwestern Norway, exploring the land, peoples, and politics of the region, which these |
| 1:34.2 | first raiders called home. Today, we're going to go farther afield and talk about a group |
| 1:40.4 | who are going to be central to our story over the next series of episodes, and for |
| 1:45.6 | that matter, they're going to be extremely important throughout the entirety of this podcast. |
| 1:50.7 | I'm talking, of course, about the Irish. Now, in what's quickly becoming a familiar refrain in |
| 1:58.3 | the podcast, there was no political entity called Ireland |
| 2:02.1 | in the Viking Age. Rather, the island was broken up into a dizzying array of competing |
| 2:08.3 | and cooperating, petty kingdoms and chieftoms, as many as about 150 by some counts. |
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