Ep 27 - The Vikings are Gay! With guest Amy Jefford Franks

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

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

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

We all know that every Viking ever was a barrel chested, big bearded, lady killer (sometimes literally). But is that really the case? How realistic is it to believe that every viking for almost 300 years had a knotty spear shaft only for Freya? This week Mathias and Daniel sit down with Amy Jefford Franks a fellow historian and host of the awesome, "Vikings Are Gay!" podcast. Together they will be discussing topics like:

What happens when a group of men are on a boat together for a long time?

Why the insult "bottom" in saga literature is more about bucking social norms and less a description of certain recreational activities.

And the unfortunate white supremacist influence left in viking scholarship by Nazi's, as well as how to begin addressing it.

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1:29.6	Right, let's get into the shore. Hello and welcome to the Nordic mythology podcast. I'm Daniel Farron,
1:53.8	co owner of the Company Horns of Odin, and I'm joined as always by Dr.
1:57.4	Mateus Nordic. Hello everyone. Yeah, so this time I get to introduce our guest. We are talking with the Amy Jeff at Franks, who is a researcher in the Viking Age and Amy as far as I understand you work a lot with
2:19.9	gender in the Viking Age aside Aside from that, you also have a podcast,
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