Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Vikings
Gone Medieval
History Hit
4.5 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
September is Vikings month on Gone Medieval, as Dr. Cat Jarman presents a mini-series about her favourite, specialist subject. Over her next four episodes, Cat will be taking a deep dive into the Viking age, looking at how it all started, how it all ended, and the stories we tell about those people from the north in between.
In this first episode, Cat addresses all of the burning questions about the Vikings that you sent in via Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and the Medieval Monday newsletter. Asking the questions are Gone Medieval’s producers Elena and Rob.
The Senior Producer on this episode was Elena Guthrie. It was edited and produced by Rob Weinberg.
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| 1:33.2 | Hello and welcome to Gone Medieval. I'm Dr. Kat Jarman. |
| 1:37.9 | A today is a special episode because we now kick off our Viking mini series. |
| 1:44.0 | This month, every Tuesday, I will be taking a deep dive into the Viking Age, |
| 1:48.7 | looking at how it all started, how it all ended and the stories we tell about those people from |
| 1:54.9 | the North in between. But to start it all off in this episode, I'm going to be answering all |
| 2:01.0 | of your burning questions on everything you always wanted to know about the Vikings. |
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