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Nordic Mythology Podcast

Ep 182 - Monsters in Old Norse Literature With Rebecca Merkelbach

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

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

4.8356 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Dan is joined by Rebecca Merkelbach for spooky season! They get chatting about Draugrs, Trolls and all manor of Monsters in Norse Literature.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Nodding mythology podcast, I'm Daniel Farron,

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on with the company Hans of Odin.

0:11.6

And before we jump into the main show show I do have to do our little

0:15.5

looks I guess before it's for our patron it's patron force that Nordic mythology podcast

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is three pound a month 10 p a day and what you get for that is you get a

0:26.6

bonus episode every single week you get ad free episodes you get early access to all the

0:31.5

episodes you can watch the episodes live and access to the live chat. So we have an inception situation going on. We have the main episode and then within that we have the live chat where there's a bunch of other stuff going on

0:45.2

is always a lot of fun and can be a little bit distracted sometimes as to you also get our

0:50.9

discourse server where we have a lovely little community of listeners over there and the tear up from that you get the story time episode with myself and yours Lorenzin where we've just started reading through Neil Gamer's Norse mythology.

1:04.0

So there's a bunch of stuff on there and more than anything it just helps us keep going.

1:09.0

It helps us keep the people who help the show behind the scenes employed because there's a lot more to this than just me.

1:16.5

You know, we have an editor, we have a social media person, we have advertising booking, and it's all part of one big machine and the patron is the main

1:25.9

funding source behind it we don't have any anything else if you can pop over

1:30.0

into there and just take a look it's's again it's Patreon on 4 slash Nordic mythology

1:34.4

podcast and it is just three pound a month and if you can't support

1:38.3

financially which not everyone can even just a share on Instagram share on Facebook it helps people find the

1:47.6

podcast as well as leaving a five-star rating and a positive review wherever

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you get your podcasts.

1:53.4

But with all that said, we have to jump into the main show.

1:58.0

I'm really excited this.

2:00.4

It's an extension, I guess, or in another week of spooky season.

2:04.4

So we're doing a few back-to-back episodes of the spooky side of Nordic mythology.

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