In this episode we discuss season 2 of House of the Dragon with a special guest, Bidonica! Together we talk about art in ASOIAF/HotD compared to the history of art in our world, (trans)gender politics in HotD and our world, language and power, class politics, and more! 

And also why Italian fan artists draw Sansa with dark hair... 

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Where to find Bidonica:

https://x.com/bidonica1

https://bidonicart.tumblr.com/

https://bidonica.tumblr.com/

Art in HotD tag: https://bidonica.tumblr.com/tagged/art%20in%20hotd

Art in Westeros: https://bidonica.tumblr.com/tagged/art%20in%20westeros 

Bidonica's references:

Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa, Bompiani 1980 

Pentiment (videogame) 

Proserpine (artwork by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Ellen Terry as Lady MacBeth (artwork by John Singer Sargent)

Dance (artwork by Henri Matisse)

Erotic revelry - Athenian Red Figure column krater

Lo's references:

“Missbrukad kvinnokraft” - Ellen Key

“Fenixelden: Drottning Kristina som alkemist” by Susanna Åkerman

”A brief trans history” - Lo

“Writing migration through the body” by Emma Bond

“The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia” by Lee Colwil 

“Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings ca. 750-1050” by Jacob Bell

“Fa'afafine, fakaleitī, fakafifine — understanding the Pacific's alternative gender expressions” by Alan Weedon

“What does “Two-Spirit” Mean?” - by Geo Neptune

Virginie's references:

Leitis in Waiting (documentary)

Kumo Hina (documentary). And a shorter clip from the documentary, explaining what māhū is.

Ragman's Harbour episode 2 "Of Scandals and bastards" (references for all discussions about bastards can be found there!)

Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

Are you feeling bereft after season 2 of HotD? Not sure what to do with your free time? We are here for you! In this mini-episode, we provide tv show recommendations to fill the void that HotD might have left in your life.

Lo's recommendations:

SKAM

Young Royals

Ragnarok 

Virginie's recommendations: 

Polar Park

Icon of French Cinema

Peepoodo and the Super Fuck Friends

Unplanned bonus chat about:

Jordskott

Maria Wern

Nói albinói (Icelandic movie)

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Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

During this HotD season, we thought both our dear listeners and ourselves could use a break from just talking about the dragon show. So here is the second of three mini-episode where we recommend stuff to you all! In this episode we talk books!

Lo’s books & authors:

• Stöld (Stolen) - Ann-Helén Laestadius (Sápmi/Sweden)

Virginie’s books & authors:

• La Jument Verte (the Green Mare) by Marcel Aymé (France)

Unplanned bonus chat about:

Lo: Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking) by Astrid Lindgren (Sweden). 

Ronja Rövardotter (Ronia, the Robber’s daughter) by Astrid Lindgren (Sweden).

And other assorted books by Astrid Lindgren. 

Virginie: Astérix by Goscinny & Uderzo (France).

Tintin by Hergé (Belgium).

Ps: the “twelve things to do of Astérix” is actually called “the Twelve Tasks of Astérix” and the task where they have to get a permit (A38) is called "The Place that sends you mad"

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The Ragman's Harbour visited The Silent Sisters to chat about House of the Dragon season 2 episode 3! We had so much to say that not everything could fit in the podcast episode, so here is an outtake just for our listeners. Join us as we discuss how the name Ulf comes from the Swedish/Norse world "ulv", meaning "wolf", the history of that word and other taboo words, and the history of languages in general.

And of course, go listen to the whole episode with The Silent Sisters!

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During this HOT HotD season, we thought both our dear listeners and ourselves could use a break from just talking about the dragon show. So here is the first of three mini-episode where we recommend stuff to you all! In this episode we talk movies!

Lo talked about, in chronological order:

• The Millenium movies, especially Män som hatar kvinnor/The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - by Niels Arden Oplev & Daniel Alfredson (the movie with a journalist and hacker trying to solve the 40 year old mystery of a missing girl, while also delving into social inequality in Sweden)

Virginie talked about, in chronological order:

• La vie est un long fleuve tranquille -by Etienne Chatilliez (the movie with switched babies that’s all about making fun of rich and catholic people because we think class humour is the best)

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In this episode we welcome our first guest, Obie, to discuss season 1 of House of the Dragon ahead of the season 2 premiere. 

Together we recap season 1 and discuss how it works as an adaptation of Fire & Blood. We also discuss reproductive rights in Sweden, France, and Aruba, a queen who was a king, and the real life Aegon the Conqueror (but Frankish).

Join us in the HotD hype!

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Sources and resources:

“Missbrukad kvinnokraft” - Ellen Key

“Kvinnans villkorliga frigivning” - Eva Moberg

“Elise "Ottar" Ottesen-Jensen”-RFSU

Sveriges sexigaste 80-åring!- RFSU (excerpt of interview with Ottar)

“Fenixelden: Drottning Kristina som alkemist.” - Susanna Åkerman

“Kroppar sedda utifrån cripteori.” - Renita Sörensdotter (in the anthology “Kroppsfunktion. En antologi”, edited by Frida Sandström)

Disability, gender, and sexuality in ASOIAF – Lo the Lynx

“Hodor - a study of disability and sexuality” - Lo the Lynx

In this episode, your hosts take you on a second cruise through folklore and chivalric romance to discover more real world people-like creatures and humanish people that are just as real as national borders that parallel characters (or not) from ASOIAF/ Game of Thrones.

We still don't mention her because we're horrible people, but you know this episode is in honour of Old Nan, our queen of love and stories <3

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Sources and ressources:

* Lo's sources:

“The Flying Noaidi of the North: Sámi Tradition Reflected in the Figure Loki Laufeyjarson in Old Norse Mythology” - Triin Laidoner

*Virginie's sources:

Mélusine :

Les lavandières de la nuit:

- Musée : https://www.mbaq.fr/fr/nos-collections/peintures-d-inspiration-bretonne/yan-dargent-les-lavandieres-de-la-nuit-315.html

In this episode, your hosts take you on a cruise to discover real world people-like creatures and animalistic people that are definitely real (or were!) that parallel characters and, hmm, stories from ASOIAF/ Game of Thrones.

We don't mention her because we're horrible people, but you know this episode is in honour of Old Nan <3

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Sources and ressources:

* Lo's sources:

“Folktrons väsen” - Tora Wall

“Nordiska väsen”- Johan Egerkrans

“Skogsrået, näcken och Djävulen: Erotiska naturväsen och demonisk sexualitet i 1600- och 1700-talens Sverige” - Mikael Häll

“Queer Perspectives on Erotic Human-Supernatural Encounters in Finland-Swedish Folk Legends” - Catarina Harjunen

“Gruvrået” - När man talar om trollen

“Skogsrået” - När man talar om trollen

“Varulven” - När man talar om trollen

* Virginie's sources:

Meneux d’loups : 

https://www.persee.fr/doc/mar_0758-4431_2002_num_30_1_1768

Dones d’aigua : https://www.catalunyamagrada.cat/llocs/dona-daigua-misteriosa-llegenda-del-montseny_41160102.html 

https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigua#Enlla%C3%A7os_externs 

Lamiak :

file:///C:/Users/virsi/Downloads/Dialnet-LamiasYSirenasATravesDeLaSimbologia-308255.pdf

In this episode, your hosts take you on a cruise to discover real world creatures that are extremely real, as our friends the Orcs of Winterfell reminded us, and as attested by medieval bestiaries.

We also draw parallels with what creatures we see in the books A Song of Ice and Fire, A World of Ice and Fire as well as Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon the TV shows: dragons, unicorns, wyverns etc. and even weirwood trees!

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Sources and ressources:

Lo's sources: 

“Drakspår: på jakt efter världens mest kända reptil” - Bo Eriksson

“Nordiska väsen” - Johan Egerkrans

“Folktrons väsen” - Tora Wall

“Smöjning & rotdragning” - När man talar om trollen

“Bäckahästen” - När man talar om trollen

“Sjöodjur” - När man talar om trollen

“Ormen i myt och folktro” - När man talar om trollen

Virginie's sources:

Licornes/ unicorns : Michel Pastoureau, Bestiaires du Moyen Âge

Tarasque : https://books.openedition.org/gup/399  https://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/3565

Dragons : https://journals.openedition.org/leportique/171#tocto2n4

Vouivre/ Wyvern: https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers16-08/010041931.pdf

In episode four of the podcast we talk all about the cats of ASOIAF and our world. What function has cats had in our world historically, and how does that parallel ASOIAF? Are there cats in mythology and religion (in ASOIAF and irl)? Is Ser Pounce the true hero of the story? Join us on a feline trip through ASOIAF and history!

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Sources and resources

Lo:

“Medieval Pets” - Kathleen Walker-Meikle

“Människan och faunan: Etnobiologi i Sverige” - Håkan Tunón

“Kattens historia: Sverige speglat i kattens öga” - Gunnar Broberg

"Freyja predicted the future"- Historiska museet

"Nedslag i nordisk mytologi, del 11: Freja" - Malin Kim

“Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings, ca. 750‐1050” - Jacob Bell

“The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia.” - Lee Colwill in Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, eds. Alicia Spencer-Hall & Blake Gutt.

Virginie:

"L'homme et le chat, un dialogue immémorial"- Radio France

"Chat" - Au Blason Des Armoiries

"Bestiaries" - Michel Pastoureau

"Médiéval bestiaries" - Michel Pastoureau

"Black: History of a colour" - Michel Pastoureau

"Les Fleurs du Mal" - Charles Baudelair

"Le Roman de Renart"

"Le Chat" - Guillaume Apollinaire