Frithcast Episode 122 - Sail Away

Episode 122 – Sail Away

 

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

 

Walrus Island / “this the sofa where Bean makes her sofa Gin” Disenchantment TV Series. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5363918/

Orinoco Flow – Enya. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw We know: it’s going to get stuck in your head. You’re welcome.

Glastonbury Tor https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/glastonbury-tor

“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair” Ozymanidas https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

Stingray TV Show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057786/

The Muppet Movie – Fork in the Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mGXLgGqkY

The Two Ronnies ‘Four Candles’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNTM9iM1eVw

Ant and Dec https://www.antanddec.com/

“Always choose the lesser of two weevils” Master and Commander: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAwIN8J3RAE

“Sail round and round the Isle of Wight until everyone gets dizzy and we go home” Blackadder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EfW9znJYjw

“I can’t help it, it’s so beautiful!” A Bugs Life 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCT88fmW8uo

Pining for the Fjords - The Dead Parrot Sketch https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xoh8j

“Same thing we do every night, Pinky” Pinky and the Brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGWKL-5ToD4

“Nor a drop to drink” Rime of the Ancient Mariner https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834

The Draken https://www.drakenhh.com/

Everquest – crafting system in the first game was famously complex and required you to build each component before you assembled it into things you could use.

Sail fragments from Oseberg – showing that 2/2 twill was used: http://forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/Oseberg/textiles/TEXTILE.HTM

Wool sails: https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/professions/boatyard/experimental-archaeological-research/maritime-crafts/maritime-technology/wool-sailcloth

The Trousers of Time – Terry Pratchett: https://wiki.lspace.org/Trousers_of_Time

“The Gloomy Trousers of Uncle Vanye” The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchet https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-fifth-elephant.html

Two one twill, thanks for everything Julie Neumar – paraphrasing Too Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Neumar

The Skuldelev Ships: https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/visit-the-museum/exhibitions/the-five-viking-ships

 

An exploration of textiles and Viking sails: https://textileranger.com/2014/04/24/on-the-trail-of-sail-history-the-vikings/ and the follow up article here: https://textileranger.com/2016/07/31/following-up-on-viking-sails/

An exploration of a modern reconstruction Viking ship, and the sheep that made it possible: https://hakaimagazine.com/features/no-wool-no-vikings/

“We are Borg” from Star Trek: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Assimilation

Independence Day 1996 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/

North Ronaldsay Sheep https://www.theorkneysheepfoundation.org.uk/the-sheep/

 

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