A Very Alaric Christmas

Ancient History Fangirl

History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 518 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! How would Alaric of the Visigoths celebrate the midwinter holiday (Christmas? Solstice? Yule?). The idea was kicked around a lot between the two of us until it seemed imperative that we actually write this episode. And thus, an episode was born. In this episode, Alaric is about six years old. He doesn’t exactly understand that his life is hanging by a knife’s edge – caught between the invading Huns and the colonizing Romans. This is the story of a little boy just trying to do the right thing and not get his belly slit open by the Perchta, as one does around this time of year. So sit back, pour yourself a festive holiday beverage, and enjoy this very fictional, occasionally true episode. Sponsors & Advertising This podcast is a member of Airwave Media podcast network. Want to advertise on our show? Please direct advertising inquiries to advertising@airwavemedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.7	Ah, my brave boy, you will do such terrible violence in our name. The gods, thank you.
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1:24.9	and this is Ancient History Fan Girl,
1:26.1	The Seasonal Edition.
1:27.5	The Seasonal Edition! My favorite editions seasonal edition. The seasonal edition.
1:30.2	My favorite editions are seasonal.
1:36.9	Halloween, Christmas, anytime I get to talk about natural disasters, is that, what would we call it?
1:38.4	The summer we blew up the ancient world?
1:42.6	I don't know if natural disasters count as seasonal, but if in your mind they're related,
1:44.4	that actually makes a lot of sense to me.
1:49.5	Hot Sauron summer, hot volcano summer. It's like, oh, it's a volcano. It must be Christmas.
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