Episode #122- Should We Trust Nostradamus? (P...

In this bonus episode Sebastian takes questions about the recent series on the Viking voyages to North America. In it he reckons with the history of slavery in the Norse world, guesses at why the southern Vinland of settlement of Hóp remains undiscovered, and muses about doppelgä ...  Show more

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

These days Nostradamus is best known for the predictions found in his book The Prophecies. But, surprisingly, that book only became popular after the French seers' death. During his lifetime Nostradamus was better known for his yearly almanacs. Still, there is something about the ...  Show more

“Le lyon jeune le vieux surmontera, En champ bellique par singulier duelle. Dans cage d’or les yeux luy crevera, Deux classes une, puis mourir, mort cruelle”. Des vers qui rappellent la mort du roi Henri II, le 30 juin 1559. Pourtant, ce texte a été écrit une année auparavant. Un ...  Show more

In 1555, a French physician and astrologer named Michel de Nostredame published a book of poems titled Les Prophéties. Ever since people have been trying to interpret world events through his writings. Was Nostradamus a prophet? Was he a fraud? Or are people just reading way to ...  Show more

The deaths of kings. The makings of popes. Famines of entire civilizations. Nostradamus became famous in the 16th century for his predictions of the future. But was he nothing more than a con man? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices