De la mythologie scandinave au christianisme ...

Bon la c’est un peu la fatigue je dois vous avouer, parce que des théories fumeuses qui surfent sur le complotisme et qui sont reprises par des grands magazines pour faire cliquer, j’avoue que ça me soule un peu. Il y a un mec qui a publié un article disant qu’il a étudié l’érosi ...  Show more

Aujourd’hui, partons découvrir l’histoire d’Issun-bōshi, un petit homme au grand destin ! Dans les confins du Japon, à Setsu, un couple de jeunes amoureux désespère. Leur amour est plus fort que tout mais rien n’y fait, ils n’arrivent pas à avoir un enfant. Leur tristesse est san ...  Show more

In the fourth century AD, the Christian faith exploded out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome, converting the Emperor Constantine in the process. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion was deeply ingrained ...

Today I chat with Dr. Mathias Nordivg who teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Nordic Studies Program. He teaches Pre-Christian Nordic mythologies, Scandinavian folklore, North Atlantic and Greenlandic literature, reception history of the Viking Age, and much more ...  Show more

Working off an article about the inability of modern writers on the Vikings to understand their conversion to Christianity, the guys discuss the weaknesses of Norse religion and the answers Christianity offered them. Glenn tells a number of stories about Vikings and explains h ...

What myths did the Norse believe, and what influence did they exert on daily life? Was the trickster god Loki really that bad, and was Odin really that wise? And why is Christianity a crucial part of the story? Speaking to Kev Lochun, historian and broadcaster Eleanor Rosamund Ba ...  Show more