De la mythologie scandinave au christianisme ...

Je sais pas vous, mais moi j’adore aller à des concerts ! De métal bien sûr, mais pas que ! Mais vous êtes-vous déjà demandé depuis quand ces concerts existent ? Eh bien justement, il y a des Académies de Concert qui ont été créées en France au début du XVIIIe siècle. Alors qu’ét ...  Show more

Ukraine, Gaza, Soudan, Iran, Yémen, Taïwan… Ces dernières années, j’ai l’impression que la planète ressemble de plus en plus à une poudrière prête à exploser. Et comme si ça ne suffisait pas, un autre front s’est brutalement rallumé en avril 2025 : l’Inde et le Pakistan, deux pui ...  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