Yule: The Norse Winter Holiday w/ Dr. Mathias Nordvig
The History of Vikings
Noah Tetzner
4.7 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Today I chat with Dr. Mathias Nordvig of the University of Colorado Boulder. He teaches Pre-Christian Nordic mythologies, Scandinavian folklore, North Atlantic and Greenlandic literature, reception history of the Viking Age in the Nordic Studies Program there. We discuss the Norse winter holiday of Yule and how it was celebrated during the Viking Age.
Referenced in Today’s Episode:
The Poetic Edda: A Study Guide.
The Artwork of Thomas Denmark
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The I'm I'm I'm |
| 0:21.6 | I'm |
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| 0:25.6 | I'm With Yuletide festivities upon us, the history of Vikings is proud to recommend a book titled The Poetic Edda, |
| 0:56.1 | a study guide. This book would make an excellent holiday gift for any Norse mythology and |
| 1:02.2 | Viking Age enthusiast. Most of you who have listened to this podcast know that the poetic |
| 1:07.4 | edda comprises a mythology of gods and their human heroes, who are driven |
| 1:12.3 | by honor, lust, and wisdom, always seeking power, and always settling a new dispute. |
| 1:19.2 | The edda begins with resourceful creator gods crafting the universe out of a giant's corpse, |
| 1:24.5 | and a powerful Cirrus imparting details about the inevitable chaos of Ragnarok. |
| 1:30.4 | The adventures of Thor and the gods' unsavory encounter with Loki ensue, leading up to the |
| 1:36.1 | death of Balder and the first signs of Ragnarok. |
| 1:39.3 | The Poetic Edda, a Study Guide, is available via amazon.com and the link in the description below. |
| 1:47.6 | Be sure to check it out and learn all about the adventures of Norse gods and heroes this holiday season. |
| 2:04.5 | Hello and welcome to the history of Vikings. |
| 2:10.4 | Before we begin today, I would just like to remind you that this month, December 2019, |
| 2:13.9 | is Vikings' Month here at the History of Vikings. |
| 2:19.5 | Now that means that every week in December, we'll be releasing a new podcast episode in addition to a new video on our YouTube channel. Be sure to subscribe to both of those |
| 2:25.1 | if you haven't already. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank a friend of mine, |
| 2:31.6 | a man by the name of Thomas Denmark, for providing excellent artwork to accompany our new YouTube videos. |
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