Ep 1 - Shield-maidens and Valkyries: female Viking warriors

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

Historical, Nordic, Norse Mythology, History, Comedy, Odin, Mythology, Education, Medieval, Viking, Myth, Vikings, Thor, Norse

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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In this episode we are talking about shield-maidens and Valkyries. We go deep into the stories about shield-maidens and female warriors in the Icelandic sagas, and we also touch upon the recent archaeological investigations that have suggested that there were indeed female warriors in the Viking Age.

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0:00.0	Okay, if you're hearing this, it means that you have delved back into the early
0:04.0	episodes of the show and whilst we really appreciate that, we just want to give a, I guess a
0:08.4	little disclaimer, Matthias. Yeah, yeah, you know, the early episodes I was editing this whole thing on a very amateur platform and we basically just recorded a Zoom call. So that's why the quality isn't, you know, awesome.
0:30.0	Yeah, we didn't have proper microphones, we didn't have proper headphones, but thankfully it's grown into something that's fairly successful now.
0:38.0	We were able to have proper equipment, hire people to take care of all that pesky audio side of things.
0:46.0	But we just wanted to put this out there and let people know that if you do check
0:50.6	out the early episodes and the sound quality isn't perfect, which we know it isn't, please just jump ahead and listen to some of those layer of the purposes. I don't know if you've got a couple that you particularly like that people can start on, Mathias.
1:03.0	Oh, I mean, some of my favorites, of course,
1:05.6	the Howell-Mowell episodes we did with the Ed
1:08.4	Gamester are the talks that we had with the chain as well they were hilarious.
1:16.0	Obviously we've got fan favorites like I know Selvick and all of Hylum who joined us for an episode and Lase at G'dalia was one of my personal favorites.
1:27.3	Yes, and Terry Gondal as well has some very interesting talks with some really high profile professors so go check him out and now we're just dropping names now we're just
1:38.9	no we thank you for starting out of the early episodes and please do listen to them.
1:43.7	We, you know, we still put a lot of love and effort into them.
1:46.7	But you do have to bear with us on the on the audio side of things.
1:49.7	It does get better as you go through the episodes.
1:52.0	And I guess it's quite a
1:53.4	some people enjoy seeing those go through that motion and go from amateur to a little
1:59.2	less amateur I guess. Yeah.
2:04.0	Let's jump it to the show. Oh, uh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
2:15.0	oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
2:18.0	you know, Welcome to the nodding mythology podcast. My name is Daniel Farand. I am the owner of the
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