Frithcast Episode 147 - God Spotlight - Freyr - Cornucopia Boy of Decorum

Episode 147: God Spotlight Freyr: Cornucopia Boy of Decorum

 

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

 

Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic
Sinister ducks - 'March of the Sinister Ducks' by Alan Moore: https://youtu.be/QGL8Fx6SOjg
Carry on Cleo - dreadful yet brilliant: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057918/
Blancmange (Kate's not a fan, for the record): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancmange
Tiddly-Pom (Winnie the Pooh): https://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/8718.html
The Little Dragon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler
'The Lion Cub of Cintra' - Princess Cirilla Riannon; 'The Witcher': https://www.audible.com/blog/article-the-witcher-ciri
Caligula (Roman Emperor): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula ('Caligae' were the leather boots Roman soldiers wore)

Kate struggles to remember the name of Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Empire, called 'Augustulus' as a diminutive (he became Emperor at around 10 years old): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_Augustulus

47 (Star Trek): https://www.grunge.com/646980/why-the-number-47-is-so-important-in-star-trek-the-next-generation/
The Hedge - White Wolf games' concept of the boundary between Reality and Faerie/Arcadia: https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Hedge (Note: Fandom.com is very heavy on the adverts)
Maker hooks - in 'Dune', the hand-held grapples used by the desert-dwelling Fremen to climb and the control the great sandworms of Arrakis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandworm_(Dune)
'Scratatoskr' - how Kate can't help seeing Ratatoskr, sorry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrat
Littoral - yes, this was the right word. Meaning 'relating to or situated on the shore of the sea or a lake' (Oxford Dictionary).
Benthic - 'The term benthic refers to anything associated with or occurring on the bottom of a body of water' (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
The Royal Court of Sweden: https://www.kungahuset.se/english/the-monarchy-of-sweden
Norse curse-pole - the Nithing Pole or Nidstang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nithing_pole
Milk Tray advertising campaign - "All because the lady loves..." - definitely not James Bond though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_Tray
Bat'leth - curved Klingon sword (originally "batlh'etlh"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat%27leth
Zapp Brannigan and his long-suffering aide Kif Kroker - characters in 'Futurama': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149460/

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