Welcome to the Nordic mythology podcast, I'm Daniel Farund, owner of the Coomere Horns Word.

And today I'm joined by a good friend of mine Tim Nancaro.

Tim do you want to let people know who you are and some of the weird things that you get up to?

Certainly. So yes, as Dan said, I am Tim Nancur. I'm a PhD student at the University of Newcastle in Australia. So literally the other side of the world. So my research area focuses on exploring

depictions of sacrifice rituals in Old Norse mythology. I've got a bit of a pen shamp for saga literature as well.

Outside of that, I think, Mateus Laski described me as a ritual specialist and I kind of like that.

I don't know that I deserve it but yeah so you know I'm a as loaded as a term is, you know, for the sake of being, you know,

quixies and heuristics, a practicing pagan. I have a series of, you know,

religious rituals that I carry out, spiritual engagement and immersion, draw upon the extant body as much as we know of it of Nordic religious traditions in the Viking

Age and sort of pre-post conversion and you know as complicated as that is as a

landscape. Obviously I do my own things with it. I don't ever try to dictate

precellitize blavia. You know I do my thinking it tends to be a very a very

private and sort of very personal thing but there's this really lovely convergence

that I've been finding especially lately that you know things as I get deeper into my research

there's there's insights that I get from that that better inform

my ritual practice outside of academia. At the same time then, the, you know, sort of this this this transcendental phenomenology that happens in in my my

world as a ritual practitioner there's things that I walk away from those

experiences that I can then take back to the material that I'm working with, you know, the historical record, the archaeological records.

And yeah, you know, I get some really, really interesting sort of convergence and cross referencing between the two.

That was a good intro to say that we just did half an hour unrecorded just hanging out talking

Which I seem to be making a habit of at the minute which I need to stop but on that now that gives me a good little segue just to say if people do want to watch the episode live and get extra material where I do just hang out and talk with the guest prior to hitting record. You can support us over on

Patreon 4 slash Nordic mythology and you get a bonus episode every week where we do a Q&A after the main show where you can ask the guest to your questions.

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