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Vikingology Podcast

The Art and Science of the Viking Age

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. vikingology.substack.com

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The Vikings in Poland

Vikingology Podcast ·

2025/01/29

We are delighted to welcome back to the show Dr habil. Leszek Gardeła. It’s been two years since our last conversation with him, and so we were excited to get a chance to speak with him again and hear about his new book The Vikings in Poland (hardback now available, paperback to be released soon). Leszek is a Polish archaeologist, so this history is personal for him, and this book has been a long time in the making. But thankfully he undertook the task of researching and writing it, for it finally

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81:54

In Search of the Great Viking Army

Vikingology Podcast ·

2025/01/03

The search for the Great Viking Army is both literal and figurative. For years, scholars have tried to answer the questions surrounding this supposed “army” — What, exactly, was it? How big was it? Who fought in it? Who commanded it, and what were their goals? In this episode we welcome back friend of the show archaeologist Tom Horne to help us answer these questions and understand the exciting ways our knowledge of the Great Army is changing. If you’ve ever wondered what the difference between a

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80:36

Monarchs and Hydrarchs

Vikingology Podcast ·

2024/12/13

What comes to your mind when you think of Vikings? If it’s a bunch of hairy thugs in boats with swords and axes coming to steal your things, you are only partially correct. In this chat with Dr. Christian Cooijmans we found out that Viking activity in Francia — which encompassed a large swath of Continental Europe 1,200 years ago — was a much more sophisticated and calculated affair than anyone has previously thought.Through investigating various sources which document Viking activity across the

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76:13

Bro, you wanna be a Viking?...

Vikingology Podcast ·

2024/11/17

Have you ever thought, like really thought, about what it would be like if you took a time machine to the Viking Age? Where would you get food? How do you make clothes? What do you brush your teeth with, or do you brush them at all? And what on earth do you do without cellphones and the internet? Our guests today know firsthand the answer to all these questions and more.This time we had the privilege of sitting down with Kevin Alexandrowicz and Devon Rawlings, both members of Járnborg Vikings, a

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88:09

Oh, the humanity!

Vikingology Podcast ·

2024/10/19

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 into all kinds of evidence, both written and archaeological, to try and find the little bits of “gold” from the Viking

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59:31

News and Musings

Vikingology Podcast ·

2024/09/28

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 places including Terri tricking friend of the show Reynir into helping uncover a stone ship setting (which he didn’t mind

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62:43

Burning Down the House

Vikingology Podcast ·

2024/07/31

"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 are thrilled to welcome back William Short and Reynir

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73:02

The Irish vs. Vikings: The Battle of Clontarf

Vikingology Podcast ·

2024/06/16

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 Ireland, we asked her to tell us about one of the most important battles in Irish history, The Battle of Clontarf in 1014 —

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66:12

Were Vikings the founders of Russia??

Vikingology Podcast ·

2024/06/02

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 Russia?In this episode we wanted to learn a bit more about those eastern Vikings — known there as the Rus, and an elite subset of

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77:04

"A Base Camp on the Moon"

Vikingology Podcast ·

2024/05/25

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’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada. So far, it’s the only Norse settlement that’s ever been found on the continent. And

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60:31

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

Vikingology Podcast ·

2024/04/10

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 antidotes to the stresses of our modern existence. Heady stuff.But just when you think we might be overthinking things, we also

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79:54

Entering the Vikingverse

Vikingology Podcast ·

2024/03/15

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 differently than in your uni textbook.From comics and novels to tutorials for learning “modern”

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94:40

Remembering Not to Forget

Vikingology Podcast ·

2024/03/02

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 long Scandinavian winter’s nights. But in this new episode, we dove deep into Mathias’ research about why that wasn’t the case

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73:57

Age of Wolf and Wind

Vikingology Podcast ·

2024/02/23

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, historian, and friend of the show Davide Zori of Baylor University is back for a third time to share his new book on the history of

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84:27

Vikings, then and now

Vikingology Podcast ·

2024/01/27

So far, 2024 has been exciting for us at Vikingology, and our good fortunes continue with this chat we had with Professor Clare Downham of the University of Liverpool. She is the leading scholar in the world regarding Vikings in Ireland, but as you’ll see we talked about much, much more.From what drove Clare to study medieval Ireland in particular to issues of gender and ethnicity both then and now, we ran the gamut. And when you get three historians together, there’s bound to be a philosophical

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82:43

From Heathen to Heaven...

Vikingology Podcast ·

2024/01/22

This time we had the very great privilege and pleasure of welcoming Dr. Anders Winroth to the show for our first episode on one of the most important game changers in the Viking Age Nordic world — the introduction and acceptance of the Christian faith in Scandinavia. The Vikings would never be the same.Anders is one of the world’s foremost scholars on medieval Christianity. He is currently faculty at the University of Oslo after spending several years at Yale University and has published widely

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68:39

The Most Iconic Viking Ships Ever

Vikingology Podcast ·

2023/12/14

This time we had the lovely opportunity to sit down with Ellen Marie Næss, an archaeologist and lecturer at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway. She is someone very passionate about Viking ships and has worked for many years at Oslo’s famous Vikingskipshuset which houses three important ships from the Viking Age: the Tune, Gokstad, and the Oseberg.Each of these ships has important stories to tell about the Viking Age, and they are in process of getting a new home in which to tell them. If

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98:30

The Story of the Vikings is the Story of Us

Vikingology Podcast ·

2023/12/06

If you know anything about the study of the Viking Age or have listened to our podcast this year, the name Søren Sindbæk will not be foreign to you. A Danish archaeologist and professor at Aarhus University, Søren has been researching and writing about Vikings for many years, particularly about the maritime trade networks and towns that proliferated during the Viking Age. Sure, the Vikings were often farmers, but the urban centers were really where the action was. Søren is also the project

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The Business Habits of Highly Successful Vikings

Vikingology Podcast ·

2023/10/21

This time we dive into the economics of the Viking world by chatting with Dr. Tom Horne, an archaeologist and historian in Glasgow, Scotland, who specializes in Viking trade networks. The nuts and bolts of commerce may not sound like the sexiest topic, but we certainly had a laugh and learned a thing or two. Contrary to what most people think about Vikings, it turns out where business tactics were concerned they did some pretty “un-viking” things.Tom’s work focuses on market “kingdoms” and the

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60:44

Terri's Search for Vikings in Denmark: An Update

Vikingology Podcast ·

2023/09/09

If you saw our recent post about Terri heading to Denmark in search of Vikings, you may be wondering what she found. Wonder no more! In this Vikingology Podcast episode, C.J. and Terri talk about the places that resonated the most for her, all of which she has been teaching about for years but never got to experience firsthand until now.First up, Terri discusses the Ladby Ship on the island of Fyn — a burial mound experience like no other. Extremely impressive, but also visceral in the way it

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