Frithcast Episode 44 - Ghost Seal Whack a Mole Erbyggja Saga

Episode 44 – Ghost Seal Whack-a-Mole – Erbyggja Saga

 

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

 

David Lister in Red Dwarf – Season 3, episode 4 ‘Bodyswap’. First shown 1989

 

The Festivals of the Dead – come with many names – All Hallows e’en, Halloween, Samhain, The Nights of the Dead

 

Erbyggja Saga – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyrbyggja_saga

 

The lineage of King David in the Bible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidic_line

 

Seamus Heaney’s re-interpretation of Beowulf – he starts with the word ‘So’, rather than the traditional ‘Listen!’

 

Dallas (TV show) 1978 – 1991 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077000/

 

Dynasty (TV Show) 1981 – 1989 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081856/

 

Crossroads (TV Show) 1964 – 1988 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057741/

 

Emmerdale Farm (TV Show) 1972 onwards https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068069/

 

Coronation Street (TV Show) 1960 onwards https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053494/

 

Eastenders (TV Show) 1985 onwards https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088512/

 

The Archers (Radio show) 1950 0nwards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Archers

 

Draugr – a type of Norse undead with a specific description. Often those who malevolently haunt their own grave and the surrounding areas, attacking livestock and people, and damaging property. http://www.ancientpages.com/2018/04/03/draugr-vikings-feared-living-dead-with-prophetic-visions/

 

Rasputin – his (possibly) notable death : https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/murder-rasputin-100-years-later-180961572/

 

Christine – book (and subsequent film) by Stephen King https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/jan/30/rereading-stephen-king-christine

 

‘Little black seeds’ Vampires may have a compulsion to count spilled poppy seeds, so spending all their time until dawn. https://www.axs.com/dispatching-vampires-a-short-tutorial-98602

 

“That’s how you get ants.” Archer - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486217/

 

‘Shuffled off this mortal coil’ The Norwegian Parrot Sketch, Monty Python

 

Ghostbusters – (1984) ‘the woman in the library scene’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYjFKsJjCP0

 

Ghostbusters – ‘the green goo scene’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qWNuO36mGg

 

Thorgunna Lawson – parody reference to the celebrity chef Nigela Lawson

 

Kiss from a Rose – Seal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9aiBlIpyKU

 

The Mothman Prophecies (2002) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265349/

 

‘Stop! Hammer time!’ MC Hammer ‘U can’t touch this’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo

 

Ex-Machina (2015) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/

 

Supernatural (TV Show) (2005) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460681/

 

Grim (TV Show) (2011 – 2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1830617/

 

‘If you have poo, fling it now’ from Madagascar (2005) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgUwpb3I98M

 

How to find us online

 

‘Foul not fowl’ From The Goon Show ‘The Affair of the Lone Banana’ http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e05_the_affair_of_the_lone_banana

 

Our (very late) introduction