The 9th Century #MeToo | Vikings (Part 1)

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

Comedy

4.7 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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How did one of the most violent societies in history end up at IKEA? The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor CHAPTERS: 00:00 Aquatic Rape on Sea 05:12 Dan Snowdrome 12:44 Raid on Lindisfarne 19:52 Golden Age of Dwarfs 27:29 Death and Valhalla 35:30 Berserkers 42:10 Northerners are Vikings 50:30 Ibn Wiping My Ass Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You join us once again for Finn versus History.
0:15.1	I'm here with Horatio Gauls.
0:16.5	Stop thy boat.
0:17.7	And today we're talking about Vikings.
0:20.6	Yes.
0:38.5	This is IKEA's violent prehistory. Exactly. The origin story of Bjork. Yeah. Viseleigh kings. Viseleigh kings. It's Nazi ancient history. Yep. It's excellent stuff. Yeah, it's good stuff. I actually was more interesting than I thought it would be. Yes, I dreaded this coming up.
0:53.4	And then as soon as I realized that it was kind of Nazi origin myth, I went to lovely style. Rapist on sea, despite the Nazis. Rape on sea. We're back in Rape on sea. Is that where we are? Which I believe we said it was in East Anglia somewhere, rape on sea. It's an old Viking settlement. Yes, of course. most of Scandinavia was
0:54.9	rape on sea.
0:56.7	They didn't
0:57.0	To be fair
0:57.5	they didn't
0:57.7	rape on sea. To be fair, they didn't rape on land. No. We don't want to judge these people by the standards of today. There's a pagan culture, so they have different values. Aquatic rape, is it as bad? Horatio Gould. That's just me on question time.
1:12.0	Me hosting question time.
1:12.8	Aquatic rape is it as bad?
1:14.1	Horatio Gould, MP.
1:15.2	Kirstama,
1:15.8	it's like, well, you know,
1:16.8	I think all rape is bad.
1:19.0	No, but maybe...
1:19.7	Stop equilitating.
1:21.3	You know.
1:21.7	No.
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