Nordic Mythology Podcast

By Mathias Nordvig and Daniel Farrand

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What's Nordic Mythology Podcast about?

In this podcast Dr Mathias Nordvig (Nordic Studies Professor at University Colorado Boulder) and Daniel Farrand (Co-owner of Horns of Odin) sit down and discuss various topics from the Viking Age and Norse Mythology.

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Ep 128 - Music Industry & M...

09.29.2022

In this week's episode we sit down with Music industry professionals at Midgardsblot! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check us out on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/nordicmythologypodcast If you like what we do, and would like to be in the audience for live streams of new ...

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09.29.2022 Ep 128 - Music Industry & Midgardsblot In this week's episode we sit down with Music industry professionals at Midgardsblot! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check us out on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/nordicmythologypodcast If you like what we do, and would like to be in the audience for live streams of new ...
09.27.2022 Midgardsblot - Einar Selvik Interview We had the pleasure of sitting down with Einar Selvik for a chat about his music, discipline and the Viking hype at Midgardsblot! Check out Einar's Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/artist/4QwiYnKp4dh2PTv1Vgw3c5 Check us out on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/nordicmythologypodcast If you like what we ...
09.22.2022 Ep 127 - “Don’t be a ****” With Kati Ran In this week's episode we catch up with Kati Ran and discuss her music talents and the overall Viking/Nordic Mythology community! Check out Kati Rans Music here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Ug5CwD7oxSB5WNQH69NUJ?si=ySYcdJ-_SP6_FHYDlwbfgw Check out IANAI here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1yGcDrrvQWSoki7RrXWPhh?si=I2Eg57_tQz27Ogu1hstRpQ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check us out on Instagram at: ...
09.15.2022 Ep 126 - Constructing The Viking Age In this week's episode we share the Live panel we spoke at while at Midgardsblot! We had a great time and we're so happy to have had the chance to pick some scholarly brains! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check us out on Instagram ...
09.01.2022 Ep 125 - Spirit of Midgardsblot In this episode we unpack some of the amazing things we did at Midgardsblot! This episode also touches on some deeply personal subjects If you or a loved one is struggling and needs help, it is available! Samaritans: Hours: Available ...
08.22.2022 Midgardsblot - Heilung Interview We had the pleasure of sitting down with Heilung for a chat about their new album and their experience at Midgardsblot! Check out Heilung's new album! https://open.spotify.com/album/4IKHUb4ZlHWHLWQmqIRoiT?si=h_GicFEARhKZ-v2uQPdpjA Check us out on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/nordicmythologypodcast If you like what we do, ...
07.14.2022 Ep 124 - Thiazi’s Feast with Alex Feher and Jonas Lorentzen This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Alex Feher, one of the creators and organizers of Fire in the Mountains. Fire in the Mountains is a celebratory event with music, art, camping, adventuring, education, socializing, and local food. ...
07.07.2022 Ep 123 - Revolution in the Viking Age It's the 4th of July in the United States this week so Daniel and Mathias thought it would be fun to talk about viking age revolutions, so bust out ye Olde Les Misérables lyric book and strap in. Whether it ...
06.30.2022 Ep 122 - How Clean Were Vikings? Daniel is on the road traveling this week so it's just going to be him and Mathias, no guest to speak of, also the sound quality might be a bit spotty so bear with us. Together they'll be sitting down ...
06.23.2022 Ep 121 - Being Uhtred of Bebbanburg with Alexander Dreymon This episode has taken almost 2 years to arrange, so we hope you really enjoy it. This week Mathias and Daniel are honored to be sitting down with Alexander Dreymon, aka Uhtred of Bebbanburg from the popular show The Last ...
06.16.2022 Ep 120 - My Name is What? The Lesser Eddic Gods It's a comedy of errors this week as, due to a last minute cancellation Mathias and Daniel are sitting down to discuss the lesser known member of the nordic pantheon from Snorri Sturluson's Edda. On top of that Mathias had ...
06.09.2022 Ep 119 - Kalandra, Beautiful Music with Katrine Stenbekk This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Katrine Stenbekk, the amazingly talented Norwegian songwriter and vocalist. Katrine is sitting down with the boys to discuss her journey in music, and her most recent activity with her band Kalandra, ...
06.02.2022 Ep - 118 The Aun Year with Rune Rasmussen and Tyson Yunkaporta This week it's three doctors and one Daniel, as Mathias is joined by fellow scholars Rune Rasmussen, and Australian scholar Tyson Yunkaporta! Regular listeners will know Rune from his previous appearances in episodes 35, and 94. And Tyson is new ...
05.26.2022 Ep - 117 Let’s Talk About Sex! with Jonas Lorentzen This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with fan favorite Jonas Lorentzen to talk all about sex in the saga liturature! Jonas is no stranger to the show and also narrates our Patron only bonus storytime episodes. Other highlights ...
05.19.2022 Ep - 116 Oh My Nordic Goddesses! This week Mathias and Daniel are throwing it back to the old days, which if you're new around here means no guest. The topic this week is everything you ever wanted to know about the Nordic Pantheon Goddesses. We did ...
05.12.2022 Ep - 115 The Last Kingdom with Arnas Fedaravičius This weeks surprise has been a long time coming! In a long awaited pairing this week Mathias and Daniel are honoured to be sitting down with Arnas Fedaravičius, to talk about his portrayal of Sihtric on the popular show The ...
05.05.2022 Ep - 114 All the Spoilers! The Northmen Review with Joshua Rood This week Mathias is out of commission so we are turning to our first ever official guest host Joshua Rood! Together with Daniel Josh is going to be giving a frankly spoiler ridden review of Robert Eggers new movie The ...
04.28.2022 Ep - 113 The Jewelry of The Northman with Valhallas Silver This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Connor and Audhild, the creators of Valhalla’s Silver, which specializes in hand made faithful recreations of jewelry based on real archaeological finds from the Viking Age. They also made all the ...
04.21.2022 Ep - 112 Blót Through Music with Kjell Braaten This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Kjell Braaten, long time listeners might remember him from Episode 80: The OG's of Viking Music (which is well worth going back and checking out if you haven't). Together with the ...
04.14.2022 Ep - 111 Portmahomack: Monastery of the Picts with Dr. Martin Carver This week we are delighted to have Professor Martin Carver returning as a guest! As you might remember from our 50th Episode Martin is the director of the Sutton Hoo research project, and has written multiple books on the subjects ...
04.07.2022 Ep - 110 The Viking Creation Myth (Entertainment Purposes Only) This week is another Mathias and Daniel episode! On purpose! Definitely not because we had a guest cancel on us at the last minute. We're taking this as an opportunity to dedicate an entire episode to the absolute fever dream ...
03.31.2022 Ep - 109 Daniel Farrand’s Confessions For our long-time listeners who remember our 43rd Episode where we interviewed Mathias, this week will finally bring some closure to the cycle as we're finally putting Daniel in the hot seat! Last time we had Sean Perry on as ...
03.24.2022 Ep - 108 Viking Weapons with Rolf Warming This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Rolf Warming, perhaps better known on this show as: "Shield Guy." Long time listeners will know Rolf as the author of the study Mathias loves to reference re-examining the practical use ...
03.17.2022 Ep - 107 Being Bjorn Ironside with Alexander Ludwig This week we have a huge surprise for all our listerners! We had to keep it a secret because We didn't even know if it would happen but now the cat's out of the bag. This week Mathias and Daniel ...
03.10.2022 Ep - 106 Edible Edda with Bob Van Strijen This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Bob Van Strijen a historian of Nordic Studies and self described "man of mythery." Bob also curates a collection of Nordic themed art on instagram under the name: "Norsefolx," and is ...
03.03.2022 Ep - 105 The American Runestone with Peter Stormare This week Mathias and Daniel are honored to be sitting down with Peter Stormare, the acclaimed Swedish actor who has appeared in such films as Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and Armageddon. Together with the boys Peter will be discussing his ...
02.24.2022 Ep - 104 Viking Dreadlocks? With Joshua Rood This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Joshua Rood, heathen theologian and lecture organizer for the amazing Midgardsblot music festival, for what promises to be a somewhat contentious episode. The popularity of shows like Vikings have given the ...
02.17.2022 Ep - 103 Did Vikings Have Horned Helmets? This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with… themselves? It must be a show and tell episode! For anyone who doesn't know how these work yet here is a quick rundown: each host brings some topics to discuss and ...
02.10.2022 Ep - 102 Norse Fitness with Andy Lewis This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Andy Lewis, CEO of Norse Fitness and the host of The Norse Mentality podcast. Together with the boy's Andy will be discussing his own struggles with depression and suicidal thoughts, as ...
02.03.2022 Ep - 101 Ancient Viking Rituals with Simon Nygaard This week we finally get to meet Mathias's evil twin! Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Simon Nygaard, Assistant Professor in pre-Christian Nordic religion at Aarhus University and former classmate of our very own favorite professor, to discuss Viking ...
01.27.2022 Ep - 100 Mammen Viking Art with Luciano Pezzoli We made it to 100 episodes! This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Luciano Pezzoli from Children of Ash in the latest installment of our ongoing series to spend an episode discussing each of the six Viking art ...
01.20.2022 Ep - 99 J.R.R. Tolkien's Nordic Influences with Ruth Tolkien This week we are so excited to have Mathias and Daniel sitting down with Ruth Tolkien, great granddaughter of the Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien, and all around amazing human being! In addition to talking about Ruth's many ...
01.13.2022 Ep - 98 Fire in the Mountains: Grandpa Ralph's Glogg This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Alex and Jeremy, the organizers of the metal and folk music festival Fire in the Mountains. Fire in the Mountains is a celebratory event with music, art, camping, adventuring, education, socializing, ...
01.06.2022 Ep - 97 Professor Nordvig's New Years Reading List This week we're doing our first show and tell episode of the new year! By now you should know the format: Mathias and Daniel each bring some topics and we have a laid back old school episode. This week's topics ...
12.30.2021 Ep - 96 2021 Yule Special with Ed Gamester and Jonas Lorentzen It's our final episode of 2021 and we're going out with a bang. This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down returning favorites Ed Gamester and Jonas Lorentzen with a very laid back episode to bring us into the new ...
12.16.2021 Ep - 95 Pagans and Pentacles with Dr. Jenny Butler This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Dr. Jenny Butler, Jenny is a well known folklorist and the leading authority on the academic study of contemporary Paganism in the Irish context. Together with the boys she'll be digging ...
12.09.2021 Ep - 94 The Sámi and Cultural Appropriation with Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen and Kyrre Franck This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with returning guest Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen, and new guest Kyrre Franck to discuss the Sámi tribes and cultural appropriation. The idea for this show came about after Rune made a trip to ...
12.02.2021 Ep - 93 Music and Witchcraft with Lindy-Fey Hella This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Lindy-Fey Hella the amazing vocalist of Wardruna and Lindy-Fey Hella & Dei Farne, the later of which recently released a new album, "Hildring." Topics this week include: Lindy's musical influences, a ...
11.25.2021 Ep - 92 Art for Valhalla with Christian Frederick Nicklaus This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Christian Frederick Nicklaus, the artist behind Art for Valhalla, where he makes beautiful shields, axes, and other weapons. Together with the boys he'll be discussing his own artistic process as well ...
11.18.2021 Ep - 91 Is Iceland Part of Scandinavia? This week is another show and tell episode, in these shows Mathias and Daniel each bring a few topics and proceed to do a really good deep dive discussion on them. This week we'll be talking about whether or not ...
11.11.2021 Ep - 90 Eaten by the Wolf with Andrea Hejlskov This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Andrea Hejlskov, a modern day Völva and old friend of Mathias. Andrea is an accomplished author and her latest book: Vølve, is based on the chapters of Völuspá in the Poetic ...
11.04.2021 Ep - 89 Re-creating Ragnarok with Ed Gamester It's the re-return of The Ham... again. This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with the one and only Ed Gamester! Ed has become a regular on the show and his episodes are always a blast. This time he's ...
10.28.2021 Ep - 88 Rituals: The Gift of Giving with Barbara Jane Davy This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Barbara Jane Davy, author of Introduction to Pagan Studies, Paganism: Critical Concepts in Religion, to talk about her latest work which examines gift giving rituals and their links to ecology. Together ...
10.21.2021 Ep - 87 Music and Mushrooms with Visy Bloodaxe This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Visy Bloodaxe, the frontman of the awesome band Seidrblot! Seidrblot debuted at Midgardsblot several years ago to a very warm reception and promptly began touring until the current ongoing unpleasantness brought ...
10.13.2021 Ep - 86 How Vikings Lived This week is another of our new old school Show and Tell Episodes. Just to remind people of the format both our hosts Mathias and Daniel each bring a few topics and proceed to do a really good deep dive ...
10.07.2021 Ep - 85 What Is Spirituality Anyway? With Uffe Berenth This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Uffe Berenth one of the brilliant artists behind Ginnungagap Art, a tattoo studio specialising in Nordic Tattoos, Viking Tattoos and Rune Tattoos; Uffe also has a special personal connection with the ...
09.30.2021 Ep 84 - Thor: Marvel Versus Myth, with Ben Mudge This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Ben Mudge, Ben catapulted into the limelight in 2017 with his "Thursday Thorsday '' Instagram posts and his uncanny resemblance to the popular Marvel character played by Chris Hemsworth. As a ...
09.23.2021 Ep 83 - The Viking Age Must Die This week Mathias and Daniel are hopping in the wayback machine and doing something we haven't done in a while, that is to say doing an episode without a guest! We recently got some feedback that some people missed the ...
09.16.2021 Ep 82 - Heimdall, The Most Gangster God with Varg of Voluspa This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Varg Saastad, the lead guitarist and master of many instruments in the folk rock band Vǫluspá. We've spoken with Varg's partner Sól Geirsdóttir, perhaps better known by her internet moniker: "The ...
09.09.2021 Ep 81 - Sámi History with Viking Helena This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Helena Hals, perhaps better known by her internet moniker Viking Helena. Helena is a historian and author known for her hands-on approach to exploring Iron Age Norway. Together with the boys ...

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