Ep 263 - The Valknut: Heart of the Slain? with Eirik Westcoat

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 May 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Dan and Margrethe speak with Eirik Westcoat to revisit his research into the Valknut and discuss if it truly means the Heart of the Slain.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Nordy Methodist podcast.
0:08.6	I'm Daniel Farron, on the company of Horns of Odin.
0:11.3	As always, before we jump into the show, I do have to plug out Patreon.
0:14.9	Please don't skip, as although I know a lot of you probably will, and I really can't blame you.
0:20.0	But we have to do this
0:21.6	every, like I say, every week is the lifeline of the show, is how we keep going. And if you can pop
0:26.5	over to Patreon 4 slash Nordi Mythology podcast, you can join us for three pound a month, which is less
0:32.2	than a cup of coffee for me or Mags a month. And you get some really cool stuff on there. You get
0:37.4	access to our Discord chat.
0:38.7	You get early access,
0:39.8	but you get the bonus episode that we do every week,
0:42.6	which comes in the form of our Q&A.
0:45.6	So what we do is we sit down with our guests after the show,
0:48.9	an extra 20 minutes.
0:49.9	Sometimes it's an extra hour.
0:51.2	We did an extra hour yesterday with Kim.
0:54.1	So, you know, these are like sometimes a full other episode.
0:58.7	And you get a lot of extra information there.
1:01.0	There's questions that we miss.
1:02.1	The patrons get to ask their questions.
1:03.9	And they're just a little bit more light hard.
1:05.4	I think the guests let down the hair a little bit.
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