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Friday May 15, 2020
Frithcast Episode 82 - Mimir and Memory
Friday May 15, 2020
Friday May 15, 2020
Episode 82 – Mimir and Memory
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
“One for the lasagne, one for me” – Garfield - https://tinyurl.com/y8r95svk
“One for you, six for me.” - Quark and Rom on payday, Star Trek Deep Space 9, episode ‘The Homecoming’
Beowulf – the very first word: Hwaet! https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/listen-beowulf-opening-line-misinterpreted-for-200-years-8921027.html
Seamus Heaney’s version, which starts with ‘so’, you can hear the poet reading his own work here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaB0trCztM0
Audi – Latin imperative form of ‘to listen’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_alteram_partem
Ingimundr – Guthmundar Bishops Saga – the wandering book chest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%B0mundar_saga_biskups
Icelandic Church history – the hunger-stirrer/ Here’s the link to the book: https://tinyurl.com/yala6zvx
Chapter 3: Writing as a means against oblivion.
That bee thing: ‘cella’ Jons Saga Helga – here is info on the titular Jon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_%C3%96gmundsson
Casks of Amontillado – Edgar Allan Poe: https://www.poemuseum.org/the-cask-of-amontillado
Munin, raven of Odin: https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/hugin-and-munin/
Havamal verses: about wisdom and memory https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html look at verses 5, 6, 10, 18 and 75
Memorials at death https://www.lifeinnorway.net/viking-funeral/
Skalskaparmal – writing guards against forgetting - https://is.cuni.cz/studium/predmety/index.php?do=download&did=62028&kod=ARL100252
The Kings Mirror – socratic question and answer format – conversations are written down so they aren’t forgotten http://oaks.nvg.org/kingly-mirror.html
Mimir – hostage exchanged from the Aesir to the Vanir, decapitated by them. https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/mimir/
Goliath and the Nephelim – giants in Abrahamic stories https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/hebrew-bible/who-are-the-nephilim/
Mimir’s Well: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mimisbrunnr
The course Kate took on procedurally generated memory: "The Mind is Flat" – a short course available at intervals on Futurelearn. Futurelearn courses can be undertaken for free (or you can pay for a certificate) https://www.futurelearn.com/
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – film, books, radio, all slightly different stories with the same major events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
The reliability of eyewitness testimony in court cases: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/teaching/myth-eyewitness-testimony-is-the-best-kind-of-evidence.html
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