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Hello and welcome to the History of Vikings.

Today I'll be speaking with Dr. Leshick Gardella, a guest researcher at the German

Academic Exchange Service at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Dr. Gardella is an archaeologist and a Viking Age specialist. He's the creator of a project called

Amazons of the North, armed females in Viking Age archaeology and Old Norse literature.

Dr. Gardella, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast. Thank you so much for having me.

Well, I'm delighted to have you on the podcast, and I feel as though perhaps

our conversation is a little overdue. I've been an admirer of your research for quite some

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