Inside the Viking mind

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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Neil Price takes us inside the Viking mind to explain how the Norse raiders viewed the world and what drove them to expand across the seas Professor Neil Price, author of The Children of Ash and Elm, takes us inside the Viking mind to explain how the Norse raiders viewed the world and what drove them to expand across the seas. He answers some of the key questions about the period and offers new insights into Viking life Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History magazine.
0:15.0	Britain's best-selling history magazine. I'm Ellicorethon.
0:25.0	I'm Ellicorethorn.
0:27.0	Today you'll be hearing from Professor Neil Price,
0:30.0	an expert on the Viking period.
0:32.0	His new book, The Children of Ash and Elm, a history of the Vikings,
0:36.8	has just been published by Alan Lane. Neil has also written the cover feature for the December issue of BBC History magazine and our content
0:45.2	director Dave Musgrove caught up with him to find out more about how the Vikings saw the world.
0:51.9	I'm delighted to be joined today by Neil
0:54.1	Price. Neil Price is Distinguished Professor and Chair of
0:57.0	Archaeology at Uppsala University in Sweden, which if I read your
1:00.9	biography correctly is one of the oldest established archaeological
1:04.4	posts of its kind in the world.
1:05.8	Then you've written a major and extremely thought-provoking book, The Children of Ash and Elm.
1:11.8	Now, before we get on to that that I don't know how far the book has been
1:15.2	informed by the the big 10-year research project that you're leading on which I
1:19.4	think you're halfway through the Viking phenomenon project. Can you just tell me a little bit about that
1:23.6	and how this ties in with the book, if at all?
1:26.0	Yeah, it's part of an investment from the Swedish state
1:29.4	into kind of centers of excellence in different subjects.
1:33.2	And the whole point of this project was to try and figure out how what we call the Viking
1:39.9	Age began.
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