Ep 278 - Mythbusting with Richard Wakeman

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

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

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Dan and Mags team up with Richard Wakeman to combine their knowledge to determine what is fact and what is fiction in Viking history and archaeology.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Naudy mythology podcast.
0:08.4	I'm Daniel Farrant, under the company Horns of Odin.
0:10.9	As always, before we jump into the show, I do have to plug out Patreon.
0:14.1	First of all, I want to say a shout out to all the new patrons that we've had since we put most of the episodes exclusively on page we've had a bunch of new
0:24.7	supporters and it's you know it helps it really does kind of help us keep going keep the show going
0:29.4	it was the reason why we had to take that choice so it's nice to see people signing up and happy
0:34.8	to support because as we've said you know a bunch before at this point, me and Mags do this for free.
0:42.7	It's something that we love to do and want to keep doing, but there are financial restrictions to that.
0:49.6	So the patron is literally how we're able to do it.
0:53.0	So if you do want to support its Patreon's Patreon forward slash Nordic mythology podcast.
0:57.0	It starts from $3.5 a month.
0:58.3	You get access to the entire back catalog, so 250 plus episodes with some amazing guests,
1:05.1	some great topics, all the Q&As, you get the Viking smut that we do, where's me, Mags and Claire, and we look at
1:13.1	amateur Viking erotica. There are always a lot of fun, really good times. And yeah,
1:21.7	there's just a ton of material on there that's really worth that small kind of price tag.
1:30.2	And if you can't, then a five-star rating positive review wherever you get your podcast maybe somebody else helps somebody else finds a
1:35.2	podcast it sounds kind of menial but it really does help just taking two seconds to hit those
1:41.4	little share buttons it kind of maybe just puts the clip in front of somebody's eyes
1:47.3	who has been looking for something like this,
1:49.8	because there are people out there who've never heard of us at this point,
1:53.0	even though we've been going for so long.
1:54.4	Isn't that crazy?
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