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Hosted by Christopher T. Knight · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 7 episodes
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Was Odin only a god of Norse mythology — or does the legend preserve the memory of something older, stranger, and more historical? The Woden Files is a historical investigation into the origins of Odin, Woden, and the ancient traditions that remembered him not only as a god, but as an ancestor, ruler, war leader, wanderer, magician, and founder of royal bloodlines. Blending Norse mythology, Viking history, Germanic legend, ancient migration, archaeology, royal genealogies, steppe-world contact, Black Sea frontier history, and the turbulent world of the Migration Period, this series asks one dangerous question: Could part of the Odin tradition preserve the distorted memory of a real man, elite group, title, office, or migration-era power behind the myth? This is not fantasy. This is not blind belief. And it is not a claim of proof. It is a historical cold case. Each episode of The Woden Fil
Christopher T. Knight hosts The Woden Files, a history show with 7 episodes published.
While modern retellings often claim that Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda identifies Odin as an escaped refugee from the Trojan War, a careful reading of the sources reveals that the text actually makes a very different cla
The Woden Files: Shorts Odin Was Never King of the Turks One of the most repeated claims online is that Ari the Learned said Odin was king of the Turks. But that is not what the text says. In this short episode of The Wo
The Woden Files: How Yngvi Became the Turkish Odin How did a genealogy about Yngvi, king of the Turks , become the modern claim that Odin was king of the Turks ? In this episode of The Woden Files , we slow the argument
Why did Christian English kings keep Woden at the head of their family trees? In Episode 1 of The Woden Files, we examine Bede, the Historia Brittonum, Asser, Æthelweard, and William of Malmesbury to ask why Woden appear
Why did Christian English kings keep Woden at the head of their family trees? In Episode 1 of The Woden Files, we examine Bede, the Historia Brittonum, Asser, Æthelweard, and William of Malmesbury to ask why Woden appear
Woden's Man Podcast | Episode 003 In this episode, we examine evidence from archaeology, medieval texts, royal genealogies, migration routes, and Scandinavian burial traditions to explore the possibility that Odin's orig
Woden's Man Podcast | Episode 003 In this episode, we examine evidence from archaeology, medieval texts, royal genealogies, migration routes, and Scandinavian burial traditions to explore the possibility that Odin's orig
How Steppe Warlords Became Norse Gods Woden's Man Podcast | Episode 002 What if the gods of the Norse world were not originally gods at all? In this episode, we explore an alternative historical framework for understandi
Was Odin always only a god — or could the legend preserve the memory of a real man? In the first episode of The Woden Files, we open the case at the heart of one of the strangest questions in Norse mythology: how does a
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The Woden Files is hosted by Christopher T. Knight. The show is categorised under history (society) and has published 7 episodes.
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