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🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | Fascinating people, fascinating places. |
0:03.0 | G'd aye, and welcome to the Dan Mainwearing podcast. |
0:07.0 | This is where we talk to and about the famous and the infamous, |
0:11.0 | the celebrated and the obscure, the well known and the In the spring of 1590, a violent storm erupted on the North Sea, somewhere between Scotland and Scandinavia. |
0:43.0 | Trapped in the tempest was a convoy of 16 wooden vessels, |
0:47.0 | one of which carried an important cargo, |
0:50.0 | the King of Scotland and his Danish queen. |
0:53.0 | Miraculously, the ship survived the tempest and limped into harbour at Leith. |
0:59.0 | But neither the royal couple nor the admiral of Fleet, were happy simply to have survived. |
1:06.4 | They felt someone was to blame for their near-death experience, and were not talking about |
1:11.3 | the BBC Weatherman, Michael Fish. |
1:14.0 | Their suspicions were darker, and of the variety that stretched credulity, |
1:19.0 | not to mention any reasonable concept of justice. |
1:22.0 | This storm was the work of the devil and it sparked a wave of |
1:27.1 | bloody and cruel witch hunts that caused terror through the kingdom of Denmark and inspired a second equally devastating period of persecution throughout Britain. |
1:38.0 | In this episode, I investigate the witches of Denmark. |
1:50.8 | According to the Saxon chronicler, Widdicand, Denmark formally embraced Christianity at the |
1:57.2 | command of Harold Bluetooth, whose name was inspired by a rotten fang rather than a cellular device. He was a Danish king who ruled towards |
2:07.1 | the end of the first millennium AD. Christianity had made some inroads into Denmark a few hundred years earlier, but Wydkin tells us |
2:16.6 | that the God of the Bible was accepted as a God, but not the only God. |
2:22.2 | And in fact, there were numerous pagan gods who were viewed as being more powerful. |
2:27.0 | But this all changed when Harold decided to put the Christian God to the test. |
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