Frithcast Episode 35 - Honour

Episode 35 – Honour

 

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

“No, she hasn’t got a funny hat on...” Joyce Grenfell http://www.monologues.co.uk/First_Ladies/Free_Activity_Period.htm

Flailing Chocolate International Tour Locations – The Herdwick Stadium, Giggleswick (From way back in Episode 5...)

“No, no, no, parking is available in the Upper Field.” The Vicar of Dibley (1994) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11217538/The-Vicar-of-Dibley-6-funniest-moments.html

Thanos – the Marvel Cinematic Universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanos

“Honour has killed millions of people, it hasn’t saved a single one.” Jean Baptise Emmanuelle Zorg, The Fifth Element (1997) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Element

“Valiant men who exert a good influence are called Drengr.” Snorri Sturlson: from http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/society/text/drengur.htm

Honour in Egil’s Saga: https://sillyhistory.com/2015/09/26/honor-in-egils-saga/

Egil’s Saga if you’d like to have a read: http://www.vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/Egla/Egils_saga.pdf

“It’s better not to offer, than offer too much.” - Havamal 144 (https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html)

Thorolf (from Egil’s Saga) features on Pimp my Longship – (Kate says sorry for the wee sweary)

“This is Sparta!” - Leonidas, 300 (2006) for a clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qR0Uke2XNI

An exploration of honour http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/society/text/drengur.htm

“Fools rush in, where angels fear to tread” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fools_rush_in_where_angels_fear_to_tread

Sun Tzu – On the Art of War - https://sites.ualberta.ca/~enoch/Readings/The_Art_Of_War.pdf

Mary Rose - https://maryrose.org/

USS Nimitz - http://www.nimitz.navy.mil/

Gragas – medieval law book http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/society/text/drengur.htm

Declaration 127 - http://www.heathenhof.com/declaration-127/

Delenn/ Sheridan and Sebastian - Comes the Inquisitor (Season 2, episode 21) Babylon 5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comes_the_Inquisitor

Honour is a concept that Suzanne finds comes in at interactions between people that are non-regular. It’s more likely to be evidenced in situations that you don’t face every day – situations that may be at the extremes of human behaviour in the modern day. You can act honourably in any situation you face, but honour is subjective to your own interpretation, and how the people around you view what you have done (and to a lesser extent, why you have done it).

 

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