Ep 301 - Intro to Old Norse Mythology with Dr Mathias Nordvig
Nordic Mythology Podcast
Daniel Farrand
4.8 • 371 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Dan is visited by an old friend of the podcast, Dr Mathias Nordvig, to discuss his new book, which introduces the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Nordic mythology podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Daniel Ferrand, on the company, Horns Vording. |
| 0:11.4 | As always, before we jump into the show, |
| 0:13.1 | I do have to plug out Patreon. |
| 0:14.7 | If you get chance, please pop over to Patreon |
| 0:17.3 | forward slash Norden mythology podcast. |
| 0:19.5 | It starts from £3 a month, and you get the Q&A episodes that we do with our guest every week. |
| 0:25.7 | So if you enjoy your show, you get that little bumper pack. |
| 0:28.2 | Sometimes they end up being 15 minutes. |
| 0:30.6 | Sometimes they end up an extra hour and often longer than the show. |
| 0:34.3 | They're a nice little extra bits. |
| 0:36.3 | If you like a show, there is that for each one that we do. |
| 0:39.3 | And you also get the back catalogue, the entire back catalogue. So the latest 20 are open for anybody and the rest are on Patreon. |
| 0:49.1 | So if you want to listen to all the episodes we've done, Obviously, we're now on 301. |
| 0:56.6 | Please pop over and check that out on there. |
| 0:57.7 | But that's it. |
| 0:58.5 | Let's get into today show. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm super excited for this. |
| 1:02.5 | This guest needs no introduction. |
| 1:07.3 | Mags, unfortunately, is away today with some personal stuff. |
| 1:09.8 | But what a feeling we have, I guess. |
| 1:12.2 | The man that needs no introduction, |
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