Viking Lives

Viking Lives

The great arc of Viking history told through a chain of life stories, presented by broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason.

Episodes

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    Episode 3: Beowulf the Strong

    Kári and Richard plunge into the tale of Beowulf, the legendary Norseman who sets out to kill a murderous creature named Grendel, and then must face an even more dangerous monster: Grendel’s mother.

    48 min

  2. 17 FEB

    Episode 2: Gudrun the Vengeful

    Richard and Kári delve into the semi-mythic tale of the Viking heroine Gudrun the Vengeful, and her destruction of Attila the Hun.

    42 min

  3. 10 FEB

    Episode 1: Odin the One-Eyed

    Kári and Richard go to Oxford to speak with Professor Carolyne Larrington on the mythic origins of Odin, the doomed chieftain of the Norse gods, who makes a sacrifice of himself to himself in the pursuit of wisdom.

    42 min

  4. 10 FEB

    Dawn on Lindisfarne

    Introducing a new podcast by Richard Fidler and Kári Gislason, in which they travel to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in England where Viking plunderers stepped ashore in 793 AD, generating a shockwave that rippled across Christian Europe.

    12 min
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The great arc of Viking history told through a chain of life stories, presented by broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason.

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  • Creator
    Viking Lives
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
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