Bonus Episode - Disappearing Doppelgängers, Viking Thralls, and the Comedy of the Sagas
Our Fake History
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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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In this bonus episode Sebastian takes questions about the recent series on the Viking voyages to North America. In it he reckons with the history of slavery in the Norse world, guesses at why the southern Vinland of settlement of Hóp remains undiscovered, and muses about doppelgängers. Tune-in and find out how controversial episode art, tidal lagoons, and absurdist saga writers all play a role in the story.
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| 0:26.9 | Disappearing doppelgangers, Viking thralls, and the comedy of the sagas. |
| 0:31.7 | All that and more on this bonus episode of Our Fake History. |
| 0:34.1 | Roll the bonus theme. |
| 0:58.3 | Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of Our Fake History. |
| 1:10.5 | My name is Sebastian Major, and normally this is the podcast where we explore historical myths and try to determine what's fact, what's fiction, and what is such a good story that it simply must be told. |
| 1:15.3 | But on these bonus shows, I like to take a little pause from that and respond to questions from my amazing community of listeners. |
| 1:21.6 | We just wrapped up a trilogy of episodes on the Norse voyages to North America around the early 11th century. |
| 1:33.0 | Now, as I mentioned in the series, this topic had been on my to-do list for a very long time, |
| 1:39.3 | and I'm glad we finally got to it because it was a lot of fun. Even I was a little surprised by the |
| 1:47.3 | depth and breadth of fake Viking history that's been part of the conversation for the last |
| 1:54.6 | couple hundred years. The ancient Norse are one of those cultures that some folks can get |
| 2:00.7 | kind of weird about. |
| 2:02.7 | And so I'm glad over the course of our series, we were able to recognize that weirdness |
| 2:09.3 | and perhaps trace the root of that weirdness, while also celebrating the very real and very |
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