Exploring the Viking Age
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World leading experts, artists, actors and enthusiasts - all having a foot in the world of the Vikings - come together in Grimfrost's podcast. Grimfrost is the world's largest community and webshop for people interested in the Vikings. The podcast is launched to commemorate Grimfrost's 10th anniversary in 2024 as part of our quest to build a bridge between the past and the present.
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1Today’s guest is Anders Kaliff. Author and professor of archaeology at Uppsala university in Sweden.
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Today's guest is Neil Price, acclaimed author and distinguished professor of archaeology at Uppsala University in Sweden.
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This time our guest is Nils Edström, musician, songwriter and the man behind the band Hindarfjäll.
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This time our guest is Ben Raffield– archaeologist, associate professor at Uppsala University and expert on Viking Age warfare and warriors. Hear the guys discuss warriorhood, conflicts, slavery and more.
Explore the Viking Age with the Grimfrost Podcast’s sixth episode! This time our guest is Matthias Toplak – archaeologist, reenactor and head of the Viking Museum Haithabu, one of the most important archaeological museums in Germany. Check it out!
Explore the Viking Age with the Grimfrost Podcast’s fifth episode! This time our guest is Clive Standen – actor, shepherd of the sea and Rollo in the tv-series Vikings.
Explore the Viking Age with the Grimfrost Podcast’s fourth episode! This time our guest is Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, an acknowledged archaeologist who has examined some of the most famous Viking Age sites and graves. She is an expert in the Viking Age martial culture, economy and much more. Check it out!
Explore the Viking Age with the Grimfrost Podcast’s third episode! This time our guest is Faravid af Ugglas who lives and breaths Vikings. He is a screenwriter, movie producer, Viking reenactor, artist, craftsman and the World Heritage site manager for Birka and Hovgården (two Viking Age power sites in Sweden). Check it out!
Grimfrost Podcast, Episode 2, features Henrik Williams. Professor of Runology, world leading expert on runes and runic inscriptions and the man who deciphered the Rök runestone.
Grimfrost Podcast, Episode 1, features Einar Selvik. Musician, composer and the man behind the global phenomenon Wardruna.
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The chronicler of the time, present on the expedition, Fray Gaspar de Carvajal, narrates the following: "Orellana's brigantines were attacked on their way down the Amazon River by "up to ten or twelve [women], whom we saw fighting in front of all the Indians as captains, and they fought so bravely that the Indians did not dare to turn their backs, and whoever turned them in front of us was beaten to death; and this is the reason why the Indians defended themselves so much. These women are very w
and this is the reason why the Indians defended themselves so much. These women are very white and tall and have very long hair and braided and tousled to the head, and they are very long-haired and walked naked in leather, their shame covered, with their bows and arrows in their hands." The confrontation was the worst contest narrated by this chronicler, who lost an eye and was shot with an arrow in the side. At least six Spaniards died in the rapid and brutal combat... These women fought( Vik
GREAT discussion.. thanks a lot from Arequipa ( peru) and you have to know that at the north jungle ( part of amazonas) were ser up histories about vikings or lost Vikings in this area . https://culturaehistoriadeperu.blogspot.com/2021/04/los-vikingos-llegaron-al-peru-antes-que.html?m=1 That is a link ( Spanish) that show the narrative about that .