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Nordic Mythology Podcast

Ep 138 - Viking Age Blacksmithing With Anders Johansen

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

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

4.8356 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode we sit down with Anders Johansen and chat about the techniques and tools used in the Viking Age to create and use Iron!

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0:00.0

Welcome to Naryvithogy podcast, I'm Daniel Farron-Doh and

0:10.0

the company Hans Vodden and I'm joined as always by Dr. Mateus Nordic.

0:14.0

Hello everybody.

0:16.0

This time we're joined by Anders Johanson who is known on his Instagram analyst Viking Blacksmith, and that's because he is the resident Viking Blacksmith at Gudvangen in Norway.

0:29.0

Welcome to the show.

0:31.0

Thank you.

0:32.0

Yeah, thank you for joining. Yeah, thank you for joining.

0:34.0

You brought your hammer.

0:36.0

Is that thing ever further than like a 3 meter radius from you at all times.

0:43.0

Never leave your hammer more than three feet away from you.

0:46.0

Never know when the iron is going to start attacking you.

0:50.0

You know, it depends on what to I'm actually I'm actually literally well what

1:00.9

it's called five meters five yards or whatever, this way, that way, is my smitten?

1:07.8

So I'm actually sitting in my blacksmith apartment right here, so I picked it up a little bit but it's normally looks like this.

1:16.5

So we're actually talking with you while you're in the Viking Age. Yeah, you might say that, yeah.

1:23.0

Very cool.

1:25.0

Okay, so where, where should we start?

1:30.0

Oh, you had a question you wanted to ask first.

1:33.0

Yeah, I have a well a question slash a disclaimer so because I you know in Norway we have this stuff here. This is from Poland.

1:41.0

I just want to let everyone know that if I start sorting this stuff here, it's actually

1:46.5

tobacco, so don't get scared. It's not a white water. So this stuff is actually, you know, I got this from some Polish visitors

1:58.5

when they were visiting the Viking markets and this is crushed up tobacco which is it's been cured for it can be cured for years so

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