Vikingology Podcast

Oct 19 2024 32 ep. 75 mins 7

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Terri and C.J. are first and foremost educators passionate about the Viking Age and Viking history. Theirs was a meeting foretold in the myths of old. Both are historians of Viking history, both live in Oregon in the U.S., and both share the same birthday. It seemed only natural they team up for something epic. The Norns have woven this fate.

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Oh, the humanity!

Oct 19 2024 88 mins

This time we are thrilled to welcome Dr. Eleanor Barraclough to the show. We nerded out in a previous episode about her book Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas, which is a great read we highly recommend, so we were very excited to speak with Eleanor about her new book Embers of the Hands: The Hidden Histories of the Viking Age.In the new book, she delves

News and Musings

Sep 28 2024 59 mins

It’s been a minute, but Terri and C.J. are finally back together, so in this episode it’s time for life updates from Vikingology.First up, Happy Birthday! We were both born on September 18, so shout out to us for recently completing another turn around the sun.Terri is just back from Iceland, while C.J. is preparing to move to France. We talk about the Viking connection to both

Burning Down the House

Jul 31 2024 62 mins

"Let us burn him house and all," said Mord.Then they took the vetch-stack and set fire to it, and they who were inside were not aware of it till the whole hall was ablaze over their heads.Then Flosi and his men made a great pile before each of the doors, and then the women folk who were inside began to weep and to wail. Njal’s saga, chapters 76 and 128This time on the podcast we

The Irish vs. Vikings: The Battle of Clontarf

Jun 16 2024 73 mins

We are so happy and excited to welcome Professor Clare Downham back to the show. If you didn’t catch our first episode with her, you should. We had a great chat about lots of Viking, historical, and philosophical stuff.But this time we decided to do something a little different and engage in a bit of storytelling. Since Clare is one of the world’s leading experts on Vikings in

Were Vikings the founders of Russia??

Jun 02 2024 66 mins

For much of the English-speaking world, the “Viking Age” ostensibly got its start with the infamous raid on Lindisfarne in A.D. 793. But did you know by that time there was already a half century of Viking activity in the East in what is now the Baltic States and all the way south to Ukraine?And did you also know that they may even have laid the foundation for what is now Russi

"A Base Camp on the Moon"

May 25 2024 77 mins

Move over Christopher Columbus. Leif Eriksson got there first.To celebrate our 30th episode we’ve pulled out all the stops! We are finally getting to talk about the Norse in North America during the Viking Age. If you’re into Vikings, you probably know they made contact almost 500 years before any other Europeans, touching down and creating a small settlement in what is now L�

What if we gave a TED talk about Vikings?...

Apr 10 2024 60 mins

This time on the podcast C. J. and Terri muse about what a TED talk on Vikings might look like. We get philosophical — as we often do — about how people engage with the Viking Age past and history in general, and we try to thread the needle between our tendency to overly romanticize Vikings with our need to acknowledge that some pre-modern ways of life could actually be antidot

Entering the Vikingverse

Mar 15 2024 79 mins

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. Robert FrostFor an exciting change of pace we sat down with Ian Stuart Sharpe, the creative mind behind the multifaceted Vikingverse, an alternate world where Viking history plays out, shall we say, a bit differ

Remembering Not to Forget

Mar 02 2024 94 mins

If you’re a fan of the show, you’ll remember our fascinating chat last year with Mathias Nordvig. He’s an expert in Norse mythology, folklore, and the Nordic Story World. Some people may think that those myths are just cool, fanciful stories about the exploits of gods like Odin and Thor or creatures like dwarfs and giants meant simply to entertain and pass the time on those l

Age of Wolf and Wind

Feb 23 2024 73 mins

Brothers must battle one another,become each other’s slayer,and sisters’ sons will sever the bonds of kinship.There will be hardship in the world and much whoredom,axe-age, sword-age, shields smashed to pieces,wind-age, wolf-age, until the world falls,no man will spare another.Völuspá, stanza 45. Translation by Mathias Nordvig.This time on the podcast, archaeologist, historia