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

Bonus Episode - Disappearing Doppelgängers, V...

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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

Episode #245 - How Far Did the Vikings Voyage? (Part II)

The only literary sources we have about the Viking settlements west of Greenland come from the Icelandic Sagas. The only problem is that the Sagas can be totally off-the-wall. Corpses reanimate and speak prophecies, giant-eyed doppelgängers vanish into thin air, and one-legged cr ...  Show more

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