Ep 11 - Special guest episode: Sigurboði joins us!

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

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

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In this special guest episode of the Nordic Mythology Podcast, Sigurboði joins Daniel and Mathias for a conversation about his music, his interest in Icelandic history and Nordic mythology, and his relationship to nature. If pandemics and lock-downs are taking up too much space in your media flow these days, tune in to the podcast and let yourself be carried away to simpler times on a windy island in the North Atlantic.

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0:00.0	The Hello,
0:19.0	welcome to episode 11 of the Nordic mythology podcast.'m Daniel Farron co-owner of the
0:25.4	company horns of Odin I'm joined as always by Dr. Matias Nordwig.
0:28.9	Hello everybody and we've got a really exciting episode for you today. We're joined by the Icelandic musician
0:35.9	Sigabody.
0:36.9	Hey, how you going?
0:38.9	We're good. How are you?
0:40.9	I'm all right. Things are pretty similar here in Iceland as in Europe with all the things going on.
0:48.0	Is it affecting you much or you kind of just stuck in at the moment can't go out?
0:55.0	Well I mean I'm not sick but there's nothing going on so I'm just hanging out at home
1:00.1	everything is kind of close and quarantined which honestly I'm kind of enjoying.
1:04.8	Have all the bars closed down or are they still open but just nobody's going?
1:12.2	Yeah everything's closed.
1:15.7	But that's strange for Iceland.
1:18.3	I know when we were there it was such a busy place when we were recuivig.
1:21.6	It was a really busy place. All the bars were really busy, the restaurants were full.
1:25.0	Yeah, everything everyone's taking a hit. It's, yeah, it's tough for most people and, you know, business owners and all that.
1:36.2	It's getting kind of ridiculous for everyone.
1:40.6	Yeah, this stuff is hitting people hard and so does the government have any like plans for, you know, some kind of aid package or, you know, some money to help out with that?
1:55.0	Well, if you are out of like if they tell you to be home for work, the government will pay as if you were at work.
2:06.1	So your work doesn't have to pay you, the government covers it.
2:11.4	So that's pretty neat, you that's not too bad I know in the UK I think we
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