Ep 126 - Constructing The Viking Age

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

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

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this week's episode we share the Live panel we spoke at while at Midgardsblot! We had a great time and we're so happy to have had the chance to pick some scholarly brains!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Nordic mythology podcast, I'm Daniel Farron, owner of the Company,
0:09.9	Horns of Odin and I'm joined in person for the first time ever by Mateus Nordic.
0:14.6	Oh, Dr. Mateus Nordic, sorry, I did you a disservice.
0:17.3	Yes, you've got to get the title in there.
0:18.9	Hello everyone, welcome to the Nordic mythology podcast here live at the Midgots Blot. We are in Midgots Center and we are going to start off with a nice little panel talk with some of the guests who have been giving talks here in the
0:37.6	Mime talks. We have Dr. Fred Gregios here, Dr. Sophia Van Halpen, and Tim
0:45.8	Talesman, and a PhD candidate Jim Glassett as well.
0:50.9	So welcome.
0:51.8	And we are going to be talking about constructing the
0:57.4	Viking Age between academia and popular culture. So I hope you guys have some awesome things to say. Do we have a
1:07.6	microphone that we can circulate? I want to start out by asking you guys academics in particular, how are we as academics constructing the Viking Age? I think we are often presenting our
1:29.6	knowledge as something that is more or less finite or at least has something very concrete to say about the Viking Age, but I also know that most of us as scholars are painfully aware of the fact that, well, that's not really the case.
1:48.0	So maybe Sophia, do you have something you would want to weigh in on with that?
1:54.0	Is this working?
1:57.0	It sounds like it.
1:58.0	Okay.
2:00.0	That was actually to me when I gave my talk. I think it was asked to me when I gave my talk.
2:08.0	I think it's we are always talking about our interpretation of what we study.
2:20.0	I mean I studied texts so that is already an interpretation of how it how it was how the
2:28.0	Varkey age was and I'm giving my interpretation of that so it's an interpretation of an
2:37.0	interpretation and usually I gave my opinion to a room of academics.
2:47.0	So this was the first time that I gave it to a larger public, which was interesting.
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