Hello and welcome to this special interview where I am joined by Tom Roussel,

aka Survivor Jive, how are you sir?

I'm not bad thanks both, thanks a lot for having me.

No, no, it's a pleasure. We've spoken a couple of times before on my channel History Bro and it's but the first time today we've met in person so it's an honor and pleasure to meet you. I'm a little bit of a massive fan of your content. So today we're actually going to talk a little bit about the

attempted cancellation of the word, the phrase Anglo-Saxon and you're part in that whole saga.

So but before we do just to mention your channel

survive the drive which is knocking on now what you're getting on for the 200k? Yeah I'll be 200

000 subscribers soon and I've about 17 million views total so far so and climbing

so see how it goes not bad and you've got many strings to your post- talk a lot about paganism, lots about prehistory. You've got quite an eclectic set of things you

talk about on your channel, haven't you? Yeah, well I studied medieval history for my masters

like 11 years ago, but I I only I didn't actually study a wide you

know area of medical history I focused very intently on Germanic paganism so I was

looking at old English literature Anglo-Saxon stuff and I was looking at old English literature, Anglo-Saxon stuff, and I was looking at the Viking

Age literature from Iceland, or sources for the Viking Age from Iceland, because it's not actually

mostly contemporary with the Viking Age, it's a couple of centuries after.

But yeah, I was really

interested in paganism specifically to make pagan because besides being

historian I'm actually practicing pagan so for me it was like also a personal

religious journey of like of learning that I wanted to know more about my religion

so I quit my job and went back to you and to learn about it but subsequently I

have in the last 10 years not been focused exclusively on Germanic history and I've sort of gone

backwards like through history like I wanted to learn more about the Bronze Age and more about

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