Ep 9 - Rollo -the founder of Normandy

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

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

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2020

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Daniel and Mathias talk about Rollo, the founder of the duchy of Normandy. They depart from the fictional Rollo in the show "Vikings" and move on to discussing the historical individual who actually did exist. We embark on a journey through the various sources that were written in the medieval period about a Nordic Viking warrior named Hrólfr or Hrollaugr, who succeeded in establishing a Nordic colony on the French coast. Did he come from Denmark, as the early historical sources suggest, or did he come from Norway, as later historical sources and the much later Icelandic sagas say? Listen and find the answers to all of your questions!

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0:00.0	Okay, if you're hearing this, it means that you have delved back into the early
0:04.0	episodes of the show and whilst we really appreciate that, we just want to give a, I guess a
0:08.4	little disclaimer, Matthias. Yeah, yeah, you know, the early episodes I was editing this whole thing on a very amateur platform and we basically just recorded a Zoom call. So that's why the quality isn't, you know, awesome.
0:30.0	Yeah, we didn't have proper microphones, we didn't have proper headphones, but thankfully it's grown into something that's fairly successful now.
0:38.0	We were able to have proper equipment, hire people to take care of all that pesky audio side of things.
0:46.0	But we just wanted to put this out there and let people know that if you do check
0:50.6	out the early episodes and the sound quality isn't perfect, which we know it isn't, please just jump ahead and listen to some of those layer of the purposes. I don't know if you've got a couple that you particularly like that people can start on, Mathias.
1:03.0	Oh, I mean, some of my favorites, of course,
1:05.6	the Howell-Mowell episodes we did with the Ed
1:08.4	Gamester are the talks that we had with the chain as well they were hilarious.
1:16.0	Obviously we've got fan favorites like I know Selvick and all of Hylum who joined us for an episode and Lase at G'dalia was one of my personal favorites.
1:27.3	Yes, and Terry Gondal as well has some very interesting talks with some really high profile professors so go check him out and now we're just dropping names now we're just
1:38.9	no we thank you for starting out of the early episodes and please do listen to them.
1:43.7	We, you know, we still put a lot of love and effort into them.
1:46.7	But you do have to bear with us on the on the audio side of things.
1:49.7	It does get better as you go through the episodes.
1:52.0	And I guess it's quite a
1:53.4	some people enjoy seeing those go through that motion and go from amateur to a little
1:59.2	less amateur I guess. Yeah.
2:04.0	Let's jump it to the show. Hello. Hello welcome to episode 9 of the Nordic mythology
2:27.4	podcast I'm Daniel Farron co-owner of Horns of Odin and I'm joined as
2:31.5	always by Dr. Mateus Nordwig.
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