127. To Crown or Not To Crown

127. To Crown or Not To Crown

After bloodbaths, battles and more letters than we can count, you'd think Sweden would be ready to get the crown on Karl. But is Karl himself even ready and willing? There are always negotations between a monarch and the country about how they are going to rule, but this current process verges on the ridiculous thanks to a would-be king ready to throw a tantrum at any moment!

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21. Wrapping Up the Viking Age

21. Wrapping Up the Viking Age

As we approach the end of the Viking Age in Scandinavia, we summarise everything we've learned so far and touch on some other topics we didn't cover in detail in the last few episodes. We set the scen...

15 Nov 202050min

20. Viking Sites in Stockholm

20. Viking Sites in Stockholm

In a first for the podcast, we head outside to explore our new home city of Stockholm. We explore the island of Lidingö and find three Viking sites; two runestones and one grave site burial mound. Che...

1 Nov 202040min

19. Viking Religion and Beliefs

19. Viking Religion and Beliefs

In our final thematic episode about the Viking Age in Sweden and Scandinavia, we explore what some Vikings would have believed and which Gods existed in their world. Prepare for a few strange stories ...

18 Okt 202040min

18. Stories of Viking Women

18. Stories of Viking Women

A slight change of format whilst Åsa is in Sweden, so this time we'll see Chris describe the lives of four Viking women to a special guest host. We look at the stories of a Swedish Princess, two resid...

4 Okt 202052min

17. Viking Women Part Two

17. Viking Women Part Two

This is Part Two of our mini series on the lives of women during the Viking Age in Sweden and across the Viking world. We examine which sources can help us find out about these amazing people, then lo...

20 Sep 20201h 1min

16. Viking Women Part One

16. Viking Women Part One

We are back in Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia after our trip eastwards to look at the Rus. We are now starting a short series of episodes on the lives of women in the Viking age. We will look at e...

6 Sep 202031min

News Update

News Update

News Update: We are moving to live in Sweden and the podcast is coming with us! Listen to this brief announcement as we talk more about it and explain how the move might have an impact on the next few...

28 Aug 20205min

15. Igor, a Viking Ruler in Kiev

15. Igor, a Viking Ruler in Kiev

Still with the Viking Rus in the east, this time we quickly finish off leader Oleg with a dramatic, prophecy heavy death. We then examine his successor Igor and look at what we know about the events f...

23 Aug 202052min

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