Hello everyone and welcome back to the Viking Age podcast.

We are officially back from our summer hiatus.

Yay! So it's been quite a while since our last episode, but I have to say that it has been very much worth it.

I've gotten a chance to do an absolute mountain of research

and I've got a bunch of writing done as well. And in the first time since I started this

podcast, I actually have a backlog of episodes written and all ready to record.

So the plan going forward is to return to our normal every two-week release schedule.

While in the background I'll be busy prepping future episodes.

Now, this time has also given me a chance to think about the podcast and put together a plan to

rein in and clarify, if not simplify, its direction,

which has gotten a little bit crazy recently.

So the rest of this mini episode will just be me talking a bit more about this plan and

giving you all a quick peek behind the scenes about my thinking.

If you don't care about that and you just want to move on to more Viking goodness,

feel free to pause this episode now and fire up the next one.

The only change you'll notice is that some episodes going forward will be prefixed with the letters

COA and that stands for Children of Ash.

Those episodes will be focused on exploring pagan Scandinavian religion, society, and culture,

while episodes with the normal numbering scheme will be part of the main narrative.

Got it? Cool. I'll see you on the other side.

Is there anyone still here? I sure hope so. Otherwise I am literally just

talking into this mic. Anyway, so I began this podcast with an eye towards telling a fairly standard narrative history of the Viking Age.

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