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Show 69 - Twilight of the Aesir

January 15, 20235h 10m · 51,245 words

Show notes

This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster.

Highlighted moments

Vikings are not a people. And how connected the people in this era are to today's modern-day Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes is iffy.
they stabled their horses in the palace at aachen
they are by 900 an endangered species the cultural equivalent of a white rhino a representation of a style of germanic language paganism on its way out in the last convulsions of its dying days

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