De la mythologie scandinave au christianisme ...

Aujourd’hui, direction l'Afrique à la découverte de l’espiègle Eshu. Dans les terres d’Afrique, au sud-ouest du Nigéria, on raconte l’histoire d’un dieu fourbe, aussi sournois qu’imprévisible. C’est Eshu le fauteur de trouble, celui que le peuple Yoruba a appris à apprécier à ses ...  Show more

Je vais jamais vous encourager à faire un truc immoral… Mais bon, c’est vrai que parfois on peut ressentir une pointe d’admiration pour des voleurs et des escrocs, lorsqu’ils font des trucs dingues, inattendus et brillants. Et aujourd’hui, je voulais vous parler d’un Portugais, d ...  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