Ep 297 - Remembering Tradition with Prof. Gísli Sigurðsson
Nordic Mythology Podcast
Daniel Farrand
4.8 • 371 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Dan and Mags interview Gísli Sigurðsson to discuss how memory and oral tradition can influence our interpretations of written sources.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nordy Mythology Podcast. I'm Daniel Farron, owner of the company Horns of Oden. |
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| 0:45.6 | and then maybe someone else will find the show and I like and subscribe on YouTube. But with |
| 0:50.8 | that said, let's get into today's show. I'm really excited to speak to this gentleman and we're very lucky to have him join us. |
| 0:57.3 | So first, I would like to introduce my in-house archaeologist and co-host, |
| 1:03.2 | said it the wrong way around this time for some reason. |
| 1:05.9 | Magsavgar. |
| 1:06.7 | Hello, I'm equally excited about today's guest. |
| 1:09.5 | Go ahead and introduce Dan. |
| 1:10.8 | It's going to be exciting. So today's guest. Go ahead and introduce Dan. It's going to be |
| 1:11.1 | exciting. So today's guest is Gisley Sigerson, who is a research professor at the Arnie |
| 1:17.3 | Magnuson Institute, University of Iceland, and has served as a visiting professor in Winnipeg, |
| 1:23.8 | Stavanger, and Berklee. Gisley has curated exhibitions, edited multiple works, |
| 1:30.2 | included a complete annotated edition of the poetic edda, |
| 1:35.3 | of the edict poetry, and published several books and Icelandic oral traditions and sagas. |
| 1:42.6 | Does that cover everything? |
| 1:44.5 | I'm sure it's... |
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