Episode #154- What Became of the Benin Bronzes? (Part I)

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Bonus Episode - Disappearing Doppelgängers, Viking Thralls, and the Comedy of the Sagas

In this bonus episode Sebastian takes questions about the recent series on the Viking voyages to North America. In it he reckons with the history of slavery in the Norse world, guesses at why the southern Vinland of settlement of Hóp remains undiscovered, and muses about doppelgä ...  Show more

Episode #246 - How Far Did the Vikings Voyage? (Part III)

For centuries the western Norse colony of Vinland was known only to scholars of the Icelandic Sagas. But in the 19th century the work of a few Scandinavian historians helped revive interest in these previously obscure tales. When the Danish historian Carl Christian Rafn published ...  Show more

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