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Nordic Mythology Podcast

Ep 12 - The end of the world - Ragnarok

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

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

4.8356 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

As the Corona virus apocalypse prompts you to stay home on your couch, listen to Daniel and Mathias talk about the Viking apocalypse known as Ragnarok. They get far in their musings, as they discuss why Vikings believed in an apocalypse in the first place -did it come from Christianity or did it have roots in actual experiences? Listen to this episode and find out!

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0:00.0

The Hello, welcome to the Nordic mythology podcast. I'm Daniel Farron, co-owner of the

0:23.9

Cumley Horns-Bodding and I'm joined as always by Dr. Mataeus Nordwig.

0:28.0

Hello everyone. Did you notice how I didn't say the number this time around?

0:33.0

I did, yes.

0:35.0

I feel like we're getting too big for saying the numbers every time now.

0:40.0

Is that a thing?

0:41.0

No, I think I just forgot what number we were on.

0:45.4

No worries.

0:46.7

I mean, we're also, right now, we're, you know, spending some time cranking out

0:51.9

the special episodes and everything too because you know we all have a little extra time on our hands during this

1:01.3

these curious days of Corona lockdown.

1:06.3

I say we get to spend some more time looking at each other

1:09.8

and recording these podcasts for people.

1:11.7

Hopefully give them something to listen to whilst they're

1:14.3

sat at home twiddling the thumbs doing nothing.

1:18.1

Yeah I hope if nothing else that we can bring a little Viking light into your worlds.

1:26.3

Yeah, exactly. And on that note I think we should mention that for this episode we're not going to have any sponsors on it we're not going to have any

1:35.2

adverts and instead what myself and my taste are going to ask the listeners to do is that if you

1:40.8

if you're enjoying it if you like what do, obviously we don't make any money from this,

1:45.2

but we thought it would be really nice if people just either donated to a cause that you liked

1:50.7

or just took an extra moment to help somebody out in these trying times and maybe it was just, you know, checking on an elderly neighbor or somebody who doesn't have as much as you do and just basically just be more human and just try and look after each other.

2:06.5

Yeah, please go out and be a little more human when you do go out. Of course stay inside most of the time but I would

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