The Sacred Flame

Mathias Nordvig and Amina Otto
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The Sacred Flame Podcast is about the pre-Christian traditions of Northern Europe hosted by Mathias Nordvig and Amina Otto. It's available on Buzzsprout and most podcasting platforms. The Sacred Flame Podcast comes out twice a month with information and perspectives on Northern European traditions, mythology, history, and philosophy. Mathias Nordvig has a PhD in Old Norse mythology and teaches Scandinavian studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Amina Otto has an MA in Old Norse and Gaelic studies and is doing a PhD in Norse-Gaelic Viking culture at Glasgow University.

Episodes

  1. 31 OCT

    Slavic and Northern European Fall Traditions with guest Alexandra Zavyalova

    Amina and Mathias sit down with Alexandra (Sasha) Zavyalova to talk about Slavic and Northern European pagan fall traditions. Sasha is from St. Petersburg, Russia, and belongs to the Modovian minority called Erzya, a Finno-Ugric people. She has been raised in the pre-Christian Erzyan traditions, and is herself a student of northern paganism. Along with Sasha, the two hosts go far and wide in conversations about connections between Germanic, Slavic, Celtic, and Finno-Ugric autumn and early winter traditions across the northern European expanse.

    1h 15m

  2. 17 OCT

    Norse-Gaelic underworld mythologies and fall traditions

    In this episode, Amina and Mathias discuss underworld mythologies and how they seem to link up with ancient fall traditions in the European North. The conversation takes our two hosts from pumpkin spice and licorice through conversations about (and mispronunciations of) the ancient Welsh hero Pwll, the Franco-Danish hero Ogier the Dane, the Swiss-Lombardic hero of Dietrich of Berne, over the founding of Czechia and the founding of Krakow and the Czech-Polish cultural hero Krok, all the way to Odin and his retrieval of the mead of poetry. They also circle round the conversation about journeys to Hel by sailing to the far North --and there's a little bit about Freyja, Isis, and the sparsely known Minoan snake goddess.

    1h 18m

  3. 5 OCT

    Fall traditions in the pre-Christian North

    Mathias Nordvig and Amina Otto discuss fall traditions in the pre-Christian North on The Sacred Flame Podcast. They manage to cover the entire North Atlantic region in a conversation that takes us from the origin of modern Halloween traditions in witchcraft trials between Scotland and Denmark to pre-Christian Nordic rituals, and folktales about the Wild Hunt. Mathias Nordvig has a PhD in Old Norse mythology and teaches at University of Colorado in Boulder, USA. Amina Otto has an MA in Old Norse and Gaelic studies from Cambridge and is doing a PhD in Old Norse-Gaelic studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

    58 min
  • 3 Episodes

About

The Sacred Flame Podcast is about the pre-Christian traditions of Northern Europe hosted by Mathias Nordvig and Amina Otto. It's available on Buzzsprout and most podcasting platforms. The Sacred Flame Podcast comes out twice a month with information and perspectives on Northern European traditions, mythology, history, and philosophy. Mathias Nordvig has a PhD in Old Norse mythology and teaches Scandinavian studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Amina Otto has an MA in Old Norse and Gaelic studies and is doing a PhD in Norse-Gaelic Viking culture at Glasgow University.

Information

  • Creator
    Mathias Nordvig and Amina Otto
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 The Sacred Flame
  • Show Website
    The Sacred Flame

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