Ep 191 - Icelandic Yule Traditions With Terry Gunnell
Nordic Mythology Podcast
Daniel Farrand
4.8 • 356 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Dan sits down with Terry Gunnell in this festive episode all about Yule and its traditions.
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| 1:18.7 | But today to get into today's show to welcome Dr Terry Gunnell back to the podcast I think it's been I think it's been a couple of years since we last book it's been a while |
| 1:29.3 | Mm-hmm we were both younger at that time certainly I mean yeah technically we were. I mean yeah. I technically were. Yeah, yeah exactly. So yeah my |
| 1:38.2 | my name's Terry Gunnell I'm Professor Emeritus of the you know |
| 1:42.2 | folkuristics at the University of Iceland and that's where I taught courses on old Norse religion and then also folklore, folk tales, folk beliefs, traditions, and things of this kind. |
| 1:55.0 | We're naturally in both cases, Ulltide is a sort of central feature of these and that's what we're |
| 2:01.0 | going to be chatting about, right? |
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