Vikings in Spain
Dan Snow's History Hit
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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
When we think of Vikings, we tend to picture them in the colder climates of Northern Europe, and not so much in the warmer regions of Spain and the Mediterranean beyond.
However, joining Dr. Cat Jarman today is Dr. Irene García Losquiño, a researcher whose work is uncovering Viking activity on the Iberian peninsula, shedding new light on the lives they lived there beyond the raiding we know about.
This episode was edited by Stuart Beckwith and produced by Rob Weinberg.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Dr. Cat Jarman. |
| 0:09.0 | Spain might not be the first place you would associate with the Vikings. |
| 0:14.6 | And we know quite a lot about their exploits and nearby regions like what is no France, |
| 0:19.4 | but surprisingly little seems to be known about their activities in Spain. |
| 0:23.8 | However, we do know that parts of Spain suffered from extensive raiding activity. |
| 0:29.4 | But even so, no comprehensive archaeological study of Viking sites in Spain has really been carried out. |
| 0:35.8 | But today's guest is an interdisciplinary researcher who's been working on exactly this |
| 0:40.6 | and especially the Viking presence on the Iberian Peninsula. |
| 0:44.6 | I'm really delighted to welcome today to the podcast Dr. Irene Gassia-Los-Creena |
| 0:49.2 | who is a research fellow at the University of Santiago de Compostola and CISPAC. |
| 0:53.8 | Irene, thank you so much for joining me. |
| 0:56.0 | Thank you very much for inviting me and we're really excited to be here today. |
| 1:00.6 | I've been dying to get you on the podcast for ages actually, |
| 1:03.6 | because we work in the similar sort of things. |
| 1:06.2 | We both work on the same time period, so we've talked lots of various conferences and things. |
| 1:11.2 | So I'm really excited to get an update on all of this and we're at the moment. |
| 1:15.4 | Thank you very much. I'm excited to talk to you. |
| 1:17.6 | I always have appreciated your work, so it's quite an honor for me to be here in Gone Medieval with you. |
| 1:22.4 | Brilliant. Thank you. |
| 1:23.4 | Right, let's just get straight into it. |
| 1:25.2 | I did want to know first of all, why did you decide to focus on the Vikings in Spain? |
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