Frithcast Episode 142 - Olaf’s Not Big Enough To Be A Chieftain - The Site At Lofoten

Episode 142 – Olaf’s Not Big Enough To Be A Chieftain: The Site At Lofoten.

 

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

• The Tommyknockers – a Stephen King novel which involves the uncovering of a metallic object under the earth, and then goes all Stephen King all over the place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tommyknockers
• Geoffrey of Monmouth didn’t actually claim Troy was in Britain, as Kate had thought, but that a legendary descendant of Aeneas travelled to the Atlantic Archipelago and became the first king of Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutus_of_Troy
• St Kilda, a small group of islands off the west coast of Scotland – an already small and declining population and unsustainable food sources led to the islands being fully abandoned in 1930 (although the military have settled there from the 1950s on): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland
• Identifying recording time from mains power hum (it is actually a real thing and Kate didn’t imagine it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_network_frequency_analysis
• ‘Out of cheese error, redo from start’ Hex, Discworld: https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Hex
• Prepositions are cool – Doctor Who, the Eleventh Doctor - “I wear a fez now”: https://youtu.be/V9J1qBunLC0
• https://www.lofotr.no/en/the-history/a-sensational-discovery
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5udUbDvpkE
• How to find us online