Hi, buddy. Welcome to Downsnow's history. I have just returned from a long weekend,

a long weekend at the Chalk Valley History Festival where, for those of you not like you

have to have been there in the past, the world's biggest history gigs, people like me and

the TMA history hit Gather, and drink beer and mead in beautiful tents as the sun sets

on the wheelchair downland surrounding it, as Roman legionaries and Cavalier Pikemen

and First World War flame thrower operators drink alongside exchanging war stories.

It was great to see so many history at subscribers there. Thank you very much, Camperon,

talking to us all and bringing your suggestions and ideas, how can make a better service, and

thank you to all the people who subscribed, a fresh. If you want to join their number,

their ever increasing number, head to the link in the notes this podcast, just click on

that link, get two weeks free if you're silent today. And while you're there on history

TV, you can watch endless, nearly endless Viking content, early medieval content about

the Norse Vikings and how they traveled the seas, exploring, trading, raiding and farming.

And this episode of podcast, all about those Vikings, I was like enough at the festival,

it's interview doctor, and their barra cloth, she's a historian and broadcaster, she's

next but on all things, Norse, all things Viking, she's got a new book beyond the Norse lands,

Viking voyages in the old Norse sagas. I called up with it short value on the history

hit stage, we chatted about Vikings, the word itself, the extent of their voyaging, why

we fetishize them, what we do know about them, and what the sagas tell us. We know a lot

about what their enemies made of the Vikings, we know what the Christians thought of them,

but the sagas are way in which the descendants of the Vikings talked about their full bears,

they're fantastical, but they do contain rich seams of evidence historians like Anna have

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