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🗓️ 29 January 2021
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From Thor to Odin, Carolyne Larrington discusses the legendary figures of Viking mythology
Professor Carolyne Larrington discusses her book The Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes, which explores the legendary stories and figures of Viking mythology, from one-eyed Odin to hammer-wielding Thor.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's |
0:15.9 | best selling history magazine. |
0:25.6 | I'm Ellie Corpthorn. |
0:28.4 | Today we're talking about the Gods and Myths of the Viking Age, with Professor Caroline |
0:33.6 | Larrington, a fellow in Medieval English Literature at St John's College Oxford, and the author |
0:40.2 | of The North Myths, a guide to Viking and Scandinavian gods and heroes. |
0:46.1 | Putting the questions to Caroline was our content director, Dave Musgrove. |
0:52.1 | Caroline Larrington is Professor of Medieval European Literature at the University of Oxford. |
0:57.0 | She researches in Old Norse Icelandic and also Arthurian Literature and Folklaw, so she's |
1:02.9 | an expert in many things and an author of many books. |
1:06.2 | One of her recent publications is The Norse Myths, a guide to the gods and heroes, published |
1:11.0 | by Tems and Hudson. |
1:12.0 | It's a great guide to the subject and it's what we're going to dip into today. |
1:17.4 | Thank you very much for joining us. |
1:20.3 | It's a great pleasure. |
1:21.3 | When we talk about The Old Norse Myths and The Norse Gods, the first question I think we |
1:26.8 | need to address is what time and place would we be talking about there? |
1:31.6 | People will associate this with the Vikings, the Viking Age. |
1:34.3 | I don't know how comfortable you are with that as a word and whether that's something |
1:37.1 | we should be using. |
1:38.1 | But can you just drop us into the time and space where this topic is centered? |
1:43.0 | Well, I suppose we can start from the earliest evidence we have for any of the myths. |
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