Episode 86 – Let’s Talk Bling

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

“Today is my day” Mr Wednesday, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods https://americangods.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Wednesday

Jason Momoa – Actor: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0597388/

Cause of Death: Gal Gadot leaning on a Cadillac (This tweet from ScaryKrystal in 2017: https://twitter.com/scarykrystal/status/936385274984022016)

Every Breath You Take – The Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs

Where everybody knows your name – Theme tune of Cheers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-mi0r0LpXo

Marcus Aurelius – Meditations http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html

Cracked: https://www.cracked.com/

“Rum is a vile drink that turns...” Elizabeth Swan, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (film 2003) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325980/

Segway:http://www.segway.com/

The Last Train – (TV Series 1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195471/

If I Were a Rich Man - Fiddler on the Roof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBHZFYpQ6nc

Money Money Money – Abba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxmCCsMoD0

Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend – from Moulin Rouge (2001) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1REfTIc5po

“These Bleeds” outtakes from Cannonball Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avis_OWEZlI

Infinity Stone – from the Marvel Cinematic Universe https://time.com/5227586/mcu-six-infinity-stones/

CBDR – Constant Bearing Decreasing Range – term from flying aircraft: https://www.visualexpert.com/Resources/crashcourse.html

“That was a sword in a field” The Messenger: Joan of Arc (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151137/

BJ581: Here’s the 2019 paper which set the whole discussion off: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/viking-warrior-women-reassessing-birka-chamber-grave-bj581/7CC691F69FAE51DDE905D27E049FADCD

Turkish evil eye wards, also known as the Nazar Boncuk charm: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/59qwd8/i-accidentally-gave-myself-the-evil-eye

Viking Age bead manufacturing sites include: York, Lincoln, Gloucester, Kaupang, Ribe, Birka, Truso, Hedeby.

The Goblin Market: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market

“Pots equal people” - the predominant UK archaeological theory in the 1960’s, which stated that where specific material culture was found, there was settlement of those people.

The Beaker People: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/february/the-beaker-people-a-new-population-for-ancient-britain.html

Funerary deposits with beads: Grave 1 Westness, Orkney; Cnip Burial A, Scotland; Hillswick (bead cache) Scotland; the seal tooth bead from Birsay in Orkney, Peel Castle burial. The two male sites are: Townfoot Farm grave 3 and Ship Street, Dublin.

Triffids - from Day of the Triffids (book, TV Series and film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids

Orkney silver jewellery – Ortak: https://www.ortak.co.uk/ Aurora Orkney https://www.aurora-jewellery.com/ Sheila Fleet: https://sheilafleet.com/ Celina Rupp: https://www.celinaruppjewellery.co.uk/ and more listed on Creative Orkney: https://www.creative-orkney.com/members/jewellery

Sword Bead sites: Wiltshire: Petersfinger grave 20 and 21, Kent: Riseley Horton grave 86. (also known as Life Amulets or Life Stones)

Kormak’s Saga: fullsaga here: https://sagadb.org/kormaks_saga.en

Not this Kormac: https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Kormac

Hawk the Slayer (Film 1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080846/

Ladyhawke (film 1985) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089457/

Zorb – large inflatable ball that a person can move inside of: http://www.zorbballz.co.uk/

Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones (film 2002) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121765/

Tillerman Beads: (this is their Viking beads section, but they do other periods too) take a look to see the original colours and patterns as new (sometimes archaeological examples are faded, scratched or broken) https://www.tillermanbeads.co.uk/onlineshop/cat_428644-D-Vikingera-Beads.html

The Viking Dragon: (more replica beads, if you’re leaning closer to authentic, steer away from the amber chips!) https://thevikingdragon.com/collections/viking-beads

Runecast Copper: for hair beads (and awesome shiny jewellery): https://runecastcopper.com/collections/hair-beads

If you’d really like to get into this, there’s a Masters Thesis available here as a pdf: http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8571/1/Megan%20Hickey%20MA%20Final%20Dissertation%202014.pdf

And there’s a good section on beads in the book ‘Heathen Garb and Gear: ritual dress, tools and art for the practice of Germanic Heathenry’ by Ben Waggoner

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