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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Ben here: we're out on the high seas this week -- true story! While we're away, we're sharing some of our favorite Classic episode. Here's one we absolutely loved, and travel-related: "Like many Viking leaders, Halfdan and Bjorn wanted to be known for their fearlessness in battle and their ability to locate the finest spoils -- they wanted the community to tell stories of their valor for generations to come. Their father Ragnar built a name for himself raiding Paris, so they wanted to kick things up a notch and raid an even more prominent city: Rome. However, there was one small problem with their plan."
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| 0:00.0 | fellow ridiculous historians, we've all been there. |
| 0:03.7 | You're a Viking. |
| 0:05.0 | You're out there to rave and ravage and pillage. |
| 0:09.5 | And then lo and behold, you run to the wrong town. |
| 0:13.6 | And now you're trying to get your plunder on and you went in the wrong cardinal direction. |
| 0:18.6 | So you can't be both ferocious and have a good sense of direction. |
| 0:22.9 | Right, right, right. |
| 0:24.7 | And as we'll find in today's classic episode, our buddies half Dan and Bjorn, |
| 0:30.7 | not to be a old classic halfdan, they wanted to be known for their ability to be the best Vikings out there. |
| 0:40.1 | They wanted people to tell stories about them in the oral history of their community, |
| 0:44.9 | but they accidentally went to the wrong place. |
| 0:49.1 | It's true. Let's jump right into the story. Already in progress. |
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