Ep 64 - The Berserker Strut with Dr. Ruarigh Dale
Nordic Mythology Podcast
Daniel Farrand
4.8 • 356 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Mathias and Daniel are delighted to be sitting down again this week with Dr. Ruarigh Dale in what is shaping up to be an unofficial three part saga. You might remember Ruarigh from his last appearance on the podcast where he spoke at length about The Danelaw Saga, a subject he quite literally wrote the book on. This week though he's here to talk about one thing and one thing only and that is the role of the Berserker in the saga literature and medieval Viking society. Were berserker's more akin to a kings champion? Why has the idea of a battle mad warrior so grabbed the attention of storytellers through the ages? And what is the berserker strut and why should we call it that? The complicated answers to these questions and many more on this week's episode!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the podcast is brought to you by MyCumnay, Hornsboarding. |
| 0:04.0 | Now this week saw it's release our brand new clothing range. |
| 0:07.0 | It's our spring range. |
| 0:09.0 | What we've done with this collection is we've tried to put together a bunch of garments that you can wear no matter what the weather. |
| 0:15.0 | We've got a bunch of new t-shirts. These ones I really like, we've got a berserk spirit |
| 0:19.7 | t-shirt and an orphaned-s spirit t-shirt. What these are is they've got a warrior in the middle and then behind the warrior you've got the spirit of the animal that they're embodying. So behind the berserka you've got a bear and behind the wolflfordin you've got a wolf. |
| 0:33.0 | Alongside that for those of you who like something a little bit more simple |
| 0:36.0 | we've got just a logo t-shirts with our logo on the left-hand side and that comes in a |
| 0:41.5 | Heather near there and a woodland Heather and these t-shirts are a |
| 0:45.3 | 100% organic recycled cotton. Then we've got a new jogging pants which come in |
| 0:51.0 | the men's and women's and we've also got a hoodie so these are all in black |
| 0:54.4 | with our logo embroidered on them again with the hoodie we try to keep in that theme of keeping |
| 0:58.8 | things sustainable so that's made from 85% organic cotton and 15% recycled polyester and it's global organic |
| 1:07.6 | treaty certified and also Fairweather Foundation certified. |
| 1:12.3 | And finally, I think my favourite item from this launch is we've got a brand new 100% cotton |
| 1:18.0 | jumper. |
| 1:20.0 | This jumper is absolutely perfect for me. |
| 1:22.0 | You can wear it on its own or you can layer it up and have a |
| 1:25.4 | t-shirt under it and throw that on top for that little bit of extra warmth. It's really comfortable, |
| 1:29.6 | it's really soft. Like I said, it's 100% cotton. The men's one comes in black and a beautiful olive |
| 1:37.1 | colour and then we do a women's one which comes in a lovely navy colour as well. |
| 1:41.2 | So yeah just pop over to the website and check them out. |
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