Frithcast Episode 28 - Rune Spotlight: The Bovine Bank Account

Episode 28 – The First Rune: Bovine Bank Accounts

Shout out to Kelly Marie Geary who suggested the topic for this episode

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 William Tell Overture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell_Overture and to hear it played properly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7O91GDWGPU
“This is the BBC...”

Havamal verse 3 - (warm knees)

The Elder Futhark and The Younger Futhark: http://omniglot.com/writing/runic.htm#elder

The Anglo Saxon Futhork: http://omniglot.com/writing/futhorc.htm

The origins of the word alphabet – from first two letters of the Greek letters ‘Alpha Beta’ http://omniglot.com/writing/alphabets.htm

‘Sounds like steam escaping...’ Blazing Saddles (1974)

The Rune Poems – where the aspects or concepts of the runes come from. There are a few rune poems: Anglo Saxon Rune Poem, Norwegian Rune Poem, Icelandic Rune Poem, Abercandium Normandicum.

For rune poems, Suzanne has Dickins ‘Runic and Heroic Poems’. There’s a PDF of the full text available online here: https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/14759/1/fulltext.pdf

“The love of money is the root of all evil” The Holy Bible, Timothy 6:10

Viking coinage and hack silver – there are plenty of Viking age hoards which have Arabic coinage in, here’s three to start you off:
Thurcaston Hoard – Leicester, UK - https://finds.org.uk/counties/leicestershire/treasure-20-fitzwilliam-museum-the-thurcaston-viking-coin-hoard/

Spillings Hoard – Gotland, Sweden - http://www.medievalhistories.com/silver-hoard-in-gotland/

Skaill Hoard – Sanday, Orkney - http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/skaillhoard.htm

Sigtuna Box (with a rather nifty runic curse on guarding against theft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigtuna_box

How do you measure wealth?

“Cattle die, kindred die.” Havamal verses 76 and 77

Cattle/cows as the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the Gothic alphabet and the Greek alphabet.

“Kindred and Kine” https://www.thefreedictionary.com/kine

Irish cattle raids, such as the Cattle Raid of Cooley: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Cattle-Raid-of-Cooley

Zoastrianism and the group soul of domesticated cattle, more on how cattle are viewed in different faiths can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_in_religion_and_mythology

Mind Bender: the Phonecian letter ‘A’. The ideogram for cattle. https://www.omniglot.com/writing/phoenician.htm

Feoh is also a picture of a cow: horns through a yolk.

The etemology of the word ‘fee’ https://www.etymonline.com/word/fee

Suzanne’s UPG moment: The giant in Jack and Beanstalk. The understanding came from a conversation a few years ago with a Vitki (runic magician) in Derbyshire.

The Norse creation myth: Audhumla (the cosmic cow) http://www.norse-mythology.cba.pl/page,23,audhumla.html

Electricity: only works when it’s moving - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/energy_electricity_forces/electric_current_voltage/revision/2/

(TV Tropes: warning, don’t go here unless you have a good few hours spare… http://tvtropes.org/ )

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Suzanne gets to be fierce