Frithcast Episode 84 - An Exploration of Oseberg Part II

Episode 84 – An Exploration of Oseberg part II

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

 

Sweets for my Sweet – The Searchers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tnqnXJl9qE

Candyman (1992) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103919/

Sweet Dreams are Made of These – Eurythmics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg&list=PLDVkITmehl2vvTE7k-65zfdDWC3JluPmU

Tom Hiddleston in that suit: Loki in Avengers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvqWlRBV81M

“I like to move it, move it” – King Julian from Madagascar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApuFuuCJc3s

Dr Julian Bashir from Deep Space 9: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Julian_Bashir

Alexander Siddig, actor: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796502/

Falling with style – Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhVLgTsoMhQ

Imperial March – Star Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8

Cobra Mark III – Elite Dangerous: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Cobra_MkIII

JK Rowling and her anti-Trans views: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/06/jk-rowling-transphobic-trans-hollywood-reacts-1202236865/

Santa Glug – Everquest II https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Santa_Glug

The Oseberg Bucket (and the Buddha Bucket) https://www.academia.edu/30935667/A_GOD_BY_ANY_OTHER_NAME_Cernunnos_Christ_Buddha_and_the_Oseberg_Bucket

“The dead don’t bury themselves.” One of Suzanne’s old funerary archaeology lecturers, Mike Parker-Pearson.

The Royal Burials at Ur - https://www.world-archaeology.com/great-discoveries/royal-tombs-of-ur/

Shabti dolls in Egyptian burials: https://www.ancient.eu/article/119/shabti-dolls-the-workforce-in-the-afterlife/

The Buddha Bucket https://www.vikingrune.com/2009/08/oseberg-buddha/ (Suzanne remembered it slightly wrong, the bucket image has crossed legs, the Gundestrup figure isn’t quite the same)

The Gundestrup Cauldron figure:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/gundestrup-cauldron-largest-and-most-exquisite-iron-age-silver-work-europe-020989

The Hanged Man from the Rider-Waite Deck: https://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/the-hanged-man/universal-waite

Crossed legs in Crusader monuments: http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2016/02/cross-your-legs-and-hope-to-die-what.html

The Buddha from Helgo: http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viking-age-buddha/

5 Zoomorphic posts, made from maple: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/five-exquisite-animal-heads/index.html

Gokstad tiller critter: https://uh.edu/engines/epi2282.htm

Gokstad footprints:https://sciencenorway.no/forskningno-norway-ocean-voyages/dealing-with-the-doldrums-on-a-viking-voyage/1385263

“Deep Ritual Significance” Ssssh, and Suzanne will tell you a secret: archaeologists use this phrase a lot. It generally means, ‘we know it’s important, but we have no idea what it is/ why’

Tablet Weaving found at Oseberg: https://www.shelaghlewins.com/tablet_weaving/Oseberg_tablet/Oseberg_tablet.htm

Hugo Weaving, actor: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915989/

Persian Silk found at Oseberg: https://partner.sciencenorway.no/forskningno-norway-partner/norwegian-vikings-purchased-silk-from-persia/1392616

Preserving Oseberg: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/saving-oseberg/index.html

Roman Lime Concrete: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/why-modern-mortar-crumbles-roman-concrete-lasts-millennia

Pillboxes – WWII gun emplacements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_hardened_field_defences_of_World_War_II

Roman city scan: https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/buried-roman-city-reveals-its-secrets-with-new-3d-technique-1.1031258

British Museum virtual tour of the Early Europe Room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaYYxVWruB8

The Ghost that goes ‘Shhhhh’… and Tobin’s Spirit Guide partwork – Ghostbusters: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/

Viking Ship Museum exhibition: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/

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