Episode 113 Cats and Gods

Things we talk about in this episode:

Opening Music:

'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]

Closing Music:

'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]

Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org

The costly rebrand of The University of Sheffield ending up putting a full stop at the end of the name. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/marketing/visual-identity/logos/about

The invention of zero in mathematics: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-origin-of-zer/

“A very small casserole” Blackadder season 2, episode 2 ‘Head’

“Thirteen!” Rome:https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Heartwarming/Rome

“Raining men, Hallelujah!” Weathergirls ‘It’s Raining Men’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZJBLAu1E

Cerberus: https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/Cerberus/cerberus.html

Garm: https://norse-mythology.org/garm/

Cats on the cart from the Oseberg ship burial: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/the-oseberg-cart/index.html

Items related to keeping dogs, found in the Oseberg ship burial: http://www.worldtreeproject.org/items/show/2114

Graslund: Dogs in graves: http://www.isvroma.it/public/pecus/graslund.pdf

Cats sailed with Vikings: https://www.sciencealert.com/cats-sailed-with-vikings-to-conquer-the-world-genetic-study-reveals

Animal head posts at Oseberg ship burial: https://thornews.com/2017/11/20/the-puzzling-animal-head-posts-found-in-the-oseberg-viking-ship-grave/

Kate might have been thinking of the animal face on the steering board on the Gokstad ship.

And if you want to look at animal graves in a wider context, then try Jennbert: http://www.arkeologiskasamfundet.se/csa/Dokument/Volumes/csa_vol_11_2003/csa_vol_11_2003_s139-152_jennbert.pdf

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