As you might have heard, the planet is getting hotter! While this means that we're all probably doomed, it also means we have to ability to uncover a lot of history that had been lost in frozen glaciers. Not exactly a fair tradeoff, but as our son says, "You get what you get and you don't throw a fit!" So here we are instead talking about Viking artifacts that have been recently discovered in the melted ice. That's better, right?

We pair this interesting and exceptionally depressing news story with the 2022 film The Northman, directed by Robert Eggars and staring Alexander Skarsgard, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, and dirt! It's a more realistic look at Norse culture and technology, as well as how they enjoyed stabbing everyone! Enemy? Stab them! Friend? Stab them! Already dead person? Stab them again!

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https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/worst-melt-year-record-swiss-glaciers-data-shows-2022-09-27/

https://www.salon.com/2022/09/07/sea-level-rise-glaciers-zombie-ice/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/world/europe/norway-viking-artifacts.html

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/F6C3FDBC94AD652EF4D2E79ED1697F1A/S0003598X20000022a.pdf/crossing_the_ice_an_iron_age_to_medieval_mountain_pass_at_lendbreen_norway.pdf

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