Podcast Episodes

The Vikings in Poland

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 hea…

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

In Search of the Great Viking Army

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? W…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Monarchs and Hydrarchs

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. Chri…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Bro, you wanna be a Viking?...

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 w…

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

Oh, the humanity!

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 …

Published on 10 months, 1 week ago

News and Musings

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 …

Published on 11 months ago

Burning Down the House

"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 …

Published on 1 year ago

The Irish vs. Vikings: The Battle of Clontarf

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 …

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Were Vikings the founders of Russia??

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 …

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

"A Base Camp on the Moon"

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 …

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago