151 Viking Poetry - The Voluspa (with Noah Te...

Jacke gets ready for the Halloween season with an episode filled with madness, murder, and ghosts! First, he recounts the story of Romantic period writers Charles and Mary Lamb. Although the brother-sister duo later became famous for their summaries of Shakespeare's tales, they e ...  Show more

What does it mean to live a good life? How can we accomplish it? For more than two thousand years, Western civilization has looked to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics to help answer those questions. In this episode, Jacke talks to translator Robin Waterfield and scholar John Sellar ...  Show more

Today I chat with Dr. Terry Gunnell, Professor of Folkloristics at the University of Iceland.Support this podcast by visiting our sponsor, Atlas VPN: https://get.atlasvpn.com/VikingsReferenced in Today’s Episode:Follow Dr. Terry Gunnell on Academia.eduThe Prose EddaThe Poetic Edd ...  Show more

Today I chat with Dr. Leszek Gardeła, a Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark and author of multiple books on the Viking Age. Support this podcast by visiting our sponsor, Atlas VPN: https://get.atlasvpn.com/VikingsReferenced in Today’s Episode:Women and Weapons in the Vik ...  Show more

Today we will be exploring the Völuspá, with, Luke and Dan of The Northern Myths Podcast. Together, we'll look at the existence of order and chaos in the creation of the world as well as Ragnarök and the End Times. The Northern Myths Podcast https://apple.co/2FWzdTv The History o ...  Show more

I was thrilled to have Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir on the pod. We talked about Viking women, old Norse-Icelandic sagas, mythology and poetry. Who were these Viking women who were champions on the battlefield, did they really exist, and is there much historic evidence? Jóhann ...