Viking Travels

Gone Medieval

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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Vikings have long been depicted as that stereotype of the hairy, nameless warrior, leaping ashore from his longboat, ready to terrorise a hapless local population in a northern European country. But there were also seers, artisans, travellers, and writers, too whose stories can now be pieced together through the traces that they left behind.

Dr. Eleanor Janega is joined by Alex Harvey to bring to light new research and challenge our conventional understanding of the Viking era, which may not be as accurate as we thought or as the sagas would have us believe.

Gone Medieval is presented by Dr. Eleanor Janega and edited by Max Carrey. The producer is Rob Weinberg, the senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Eleanor Yannaga, and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the
0:08.3	podcast that delves into the greatest millennium
0:15.0	the greatest
0:16.0	the gob-spacking details and the latest groundbreaking research
0:19.0	from the Vikings to the Normans,
0:21.0	from Kings to Popes, to the Crusades, from Kings to Popes to the Crusades.
0:23.8	We delve into the rebellions, plots, and murders
0:27.4	that tell us who we really were,
0:29.4	and how we got here.
0:38.9	We all love the Vikings, so we need no excuse to revisit them and their beardy barbaric ways. But Eleanor, wait, I hear you say, you've just gone and perpetuated the stereotype of the
0:46.6	hairy nameless warrior, leaping ashore from his longboat, ready to terrorize a hapless
0:52.2	local population in a northern
0:53.8	European country. And well that's true mea culpa. Because across this week on
1:01.0	gone medieval Matt Lewis and myself will be bringing to light some of the new research that challenges our conventional image of the Vikings.
1:09.0	Sure, there were the marauding warriors, but they were in the minority.
1:14.0	In fact, the Viking Age was filled with real people of different ages, genders, and ethnicities.
1:20.0	There were also seers, artisans, travelers, and writers, too, whose stories can now be
1:26.4	pieced together through the traces that they left behind. In this episode, I'm going
1:31.5	to challenge our conventional understanding of the Viking era
1:34.3	which may not be as accurate as we thought or as the sagas would have us believe.
1:39.8	For example, is it possible that there were Viking raids on Britain that predated the famous Lindisfar attack of 793?
1:49.0	Could the Vikings have made a significant impact on parts of modern day Netherlands and Germany long
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