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Deep dive into Norse mythology, Viking history, and ancient Scandinavian culture. From the gods of Asgard to the warriors of the Viking Age, explore the beliefs, rituals, and stories that shaped one of history's most compelling civilizations. A personal journey through the Nordic world—mythology, society, and the people who lived it.
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For nearly 500 years, Norse men and women — the descendants of Erik the Red — lived at the very edge of the habitable world, farming a thin green margin between the ice and the sea. They built churches and farms, elected
Show notesThe grand finale. After 27 episodes — the myths, the leaders, the great events, the legacies — we step back for the final reckoning. Were the Vikings heroes or monsters? What did they really leave behind when the longshi
Show notesThere's a Viking king in your pocket right now: "Bluetooth" is named after Harald Bluetooth, and its symbol is his initials in runes. We explore the transformation that ended the Viking Age from within — the conversion o
Show notes"They took the knife and the eggs, and ran to the window by the gate" — almost every word a Viking gift. The deepest, most lasting legacy the Vikings left anywhere wasn't a battle or a kingdom — it was the Danelaw, the g
Show notesThe Vikings gave Ireland its first towns — including its capital, Dublin, founded as a Norse settlement and one of the great slave-trading hubs of the western world. We explore two centuries of entanglement between Norse
Show notesThe other half of the Viking world pointed east. We follow the Rus — the eastern Vikings — down the great river roads of Russia, through forests and deadly rapids, trading furs and slaves for Islamic silver, all the way
Show notesLeave the longships and battlefields behind and walk the muddy, thriving streets of a real Viking city. Beneath modern York, the waterlogged earth at Coppergate preserved a Viking town almost intact — its timber houses,
Show notesThe most famous year in English history, told in full. One throne, three claimants, and two enormous battles fought nineteen days apart. We follow the death of Edward the Confessor, the wind that pinned William of Norman
Show notesIn the year 1000, the Icelandic parliament — the Althing — gathered as it did every summer. But this year, the debate was unlike any before it: should Iceland abandon the gods of Odin and Thor and convert to Christianity
Show notesOn the 13th of November 1002, King Æthelred of England ordered the killing of every Dane living on English soil. In this episode, we explore what drove a king to order a massacre of an entire people, who was killed and w
Show notesIn the autumn of 885, a Viking fleet of over 700 ships and 30,000 warriors sailed up the Seine and surrounded the city of Paris in the most dramatic siege of the entire Viking Age. In this episode, we tell the full story
Show notesIn the spring of 845, a fleet of 120 Viking longships sailed up the Seine River toward the heart of the Frankish Empire — and the most powerful kingdom in Europe paid them to leave. In this episode, we tell the story of
Show notesOn a June morning in 793, longships appeared off the coast of a small holy island off northeast England — and nothing in Europe would ever be the same again. In this episode, we go deep into the raid on Lindisfarne: who
Show notesHe was the only English king ever called "the Great" — and he earned it the hard way. In this episode, we follow Alfred of Wessex from near-total defeat, hiding in the swamps of Somerset, to his stunning comeback against
Show notesHe was a Danish invader who conquered England by force — and then became one of its greatest kings. In this episode, we tell the remarkable story of Cnut the Great: how a young Viking warrior defeated the Anglo-Saxons, m
Show notesOne man lived three lifetimes: a wounded teenager fleeing a lost battle, an elite warrior in the Byzantine emperor's Varangian Guard looting the palaces of Constantinople, and finally the hardhanded king of Norway who ga
Show notesVikings reached North America around the year 1000 — half a millennium before Columbus — and the proof is in the ground. We follow Erik the Red, the violent outlaw who named an icy land "Greenland" to lure settlers, and
Show notesThe real Raven-Floki who followed birds across the open ocean to discover Iceland — and named it in bitterness after a brutal winter. Plus: the genius of the Viking longship, how a free society with no king arose on an e
Show notesIn 911, a Viking warlord made a deal with a French king that changed European history forever. Rollo traded raiding for land, founded Normandy, and started a dynasty that would conquer England in 1066. From pagan raider
Show notesVikings in the Mediterranean. Around 860 AD, a fleet of Norsemen sailed through Gibraltar, raided the Islamic Caliphate of Córdoba, struck North Africa and Italy, and tried to sack Rome — only to plunder the wrong city.
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