OFH Throwback- Episode #113- Who is Kyiv's Most Vengeful Saint?

Our Fake History

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

There are few tales of revenge as epic as that of Olga of Kyiv. In 945 AD Olga set out on a campaign of vengeance that would make a lasting mark on the history of Eastern Europe. However, there is good reason to believe it never actually happened. The source that contains the tale of Olga’s vengeance is among the most unreliable chronicles of the medieval era. What should we believe about one of Eastern Europe’s most merciless female rulers? Tune-in and find out how arrogant boat faces, burning bathhouses, and a baptism switcheroo all play a role in the story. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this throwback episode of our fake history.
0:12.6	My name is Sebastian Major and as you may know, right now I am taking a short break between
0:17.2	season 8 and season 9 of the podcast.
0:20.2	But while I cool my heels and research some new topics, I'm keeping the feed active
0:26.2	by re-releasing a couple classic episodes of our fake history that I think are worth
0:32.2	revisiting.
0:33.2	Today, I'm throwing you back to the COVID summer of 2020 and episode number 113, who is
0:42.5	Keeves most vengeful saint.
0:45.8	Now, I think this is an example of a truly great our fake history one off.
0:52.8	I love it when I can use a really wild story, in this case, Saint Olga's violent quest
0:59.6	for revenge, to illuminate the history of an entire region.
1:04.7	Not only is this episode anchored by a great legend, but it also acts as a textbook perfect
1:10.3	example of what I call fake history.
1:14.2	But I've also felt uneasy about this episode for some time now, or really since Russia's
1:21.2	2022 invasion of Ukraine.
1:25.0	That event gave me a clearer understanding of some of the implications of the history
1:29.8	that I was discussing that I don't think I fully appreciated in 2020.
1:34.8	Now, you may have noticed that I pronounced the name of the Eastern European city at the
1:40.4	heart of this story a little differently during the introduction to this episode than
1:45.2	how I pronounced it back in 2020.
1:48.8	As you will hear, when I originally recorded this episode, I called the city Keeves, which
1:55.6	at the time was a fairly common way to refer to the Ukrainian capital in the English-speaking
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