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🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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In this week's episode, Dan is re-joined with Professor Howard Williams to look at the artefacts that tell the fantastical tale of Weland The Smith.
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0:00.0 | Thank you for joining on a bank holiday as well. |
0:09.0 | It's good stuff. |
0:10.4 | I've just really nice to wrap up lots of things. |
0:13.4 | I was in Sweden last week looking at this object, |
0:15.6 | and it was just a perfect timing to talk about it. |
0:18.0 | And I was just like, but we were rushing because we're in a workshop |
0:21.5 | and so because they did they did this whole oh we can we don't have time to go and see the museum |
0:26.7 | which is literally 10 minute walk and I said oh we have to and everyone was going yeah we have to |
0:30.8 | we have to go and see the museum and we let no time but I was just like taking pictures like a nutter |
0:34.9 | you know yeah yeah what were you doing in Sweden I was a like taking pictures like a nutter, you know. Yeah, yeah. What were you doing in Sweden? |
0:39.1 | I was a workshop on Vikings. |
0:42.0 | It was about Vikings in the modern world. |
0:44.1 | So I was talking to museum staff and academics and heritage practitioners |
0:49.4 | and about the challenges and positives of Vikings being so popular now and how we deal with that |
0:57.6 | and the type of stories that people are interested in. |
0:59.8 | So just this kind of stuff. |
1:01.5 | So it was a really, really good event. |
1:03.2 | And they were, because I did a book chapter last year that said we need to do much better in |
1:07.8 | how we do it and how we engage people with the stories as academics |
1:11.5 | rather than sitting back just going, oh, that's wrong or, you know, we need to sort of do |
1:16.5 | much more effective. And I was actually presenting a case study about the academic reactions to |
1:23.2 | a certain January of 6th, 2021 capital riot slash interaction and the Viking imageries |
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