Ep 315 - Hidden Histories with Eleanor Barraclough
Nordic Mythology Podcast
Daniel Farrand
4.8 • 371 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Dan and Mags talk with Eleanor Barraclough to break down all the weird and wonderful things she’s been involved with, from her latest book, to her work with the BBC, and her extensive studies of Viking Age history, Old Norse literature and mythology.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nordmythology podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Daniel Farron of the company Horns Vodin. |
| 0:11.0 | As always, before we start the show, I do have to plug out Patreon. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm going to keep it nice and quick. |
| 0:15.8 | So if you can't head over to Patreon forward slash Nordy mythology podcast, |
| 0:19.1 | that's from £3 a month. |
| 0:20.5 | You get a |
| 0:20.8 | bonus episode |
| 0:21.3 | every single |
| 0:22.2 | week in the form of a Q&A slash just extra bump apart to any episode that we do. Sometimes there We have an extra one today. Yeah. Yeah. You too. Sometimes they're 15 minutes. Sometimes they're an extra hour. |
| 0:37.0 | There's the packed full. |
| 0:38.6 | Usually guests, |
| 0:39.9 | I don't know why, let their hair down in they're at an extra 15 minutes sometimes they're an extra hour does the packed full usually |
| 0:38.9 | guests I don't know why let their hair down in the second part I don't think that's going to be |
| 0:43.7 | the case today's episode though I feel like ellen and I am pretty chill already |
| 0:47.3 | great yeah you get that extra part of the show so if you like an episode go and check out our patron you're going to get that extra part of the show. So if you like an episode, go and check out our Patreon. |
| 0:56.1 | You're going to get that extra bit. |
| 0:57.7 | You get access to all the live shows. |
| 1:00.3 | You can watch them. |
| 1:01.2 | You get early release. |
| 1:02.7 | You get the smut episodes that me and Mags and Claire do where we look at amateur Viking erotica, |
| 1:09.2 | which is also a lot of fun. And yeah, just go and check it out |
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