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Fall traditions in the pre-Christian North

Fall traditions in the pre-Christian North

Update: 2025-10-05
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Mathias Nordvig and Amina Otto discuss fall traditions in the pre-Christian North on The Sacred Flame Podcast. They manage to cover the entire North Atlantic region in a conversation that takes us from the origin of modern Halloween traditions in witchcraft trials between Scotland and Denmark to pre-Christian Nordic rituals, and folktales about the Wild Hunt.

Mathias Nordvig has a PhD in Old Norse mythology and teaches at University of Colorado in Boulder, USA.

Amina Otto has an MA in Old Norse and Gaelic studies from Cambridge and is doing a PhD in Old Norse-Gaelic studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Fall traditions in the pre-Christian North

Fall traditions in the pre-Christian North

Mathias Nordvig