Frithcast Episode 64 - Tyr and the Nature of Sacrifice

Episode 64 – Tyr and the Nature of Scacrifice

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

 

• “Walking through the streets of London in the rain” paraphrased from the song Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpYBT0XyvA
• “Bourbon Street” from ‘Moon over Bourbon Street’ by Sting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i_0PkOqLKA
• Utilitarianism, with a little help from Batman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a739VjqdSI
• “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” Most notably in Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982), but also in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) and Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
• “Not the one.” Quote from Zathras, Babylon Five https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Zathras
• Sigurdrifumal – here’s a place to start:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigrdr%C3%ADfum%C3%A1l
• Lokasenna: Loki insults Tyr by saying that he only brings strife
• Tyr and the Binding of Fenrir can be found here: https://norse-mythology.org/tales/the-binding-of-fenrir/
• Marty McFly from Back to the Future series of films (first released in 1985, but it’s hard to say with time travel…) https://www.backtothefuture.com/
• Justitia – Goddess of balance: https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/kap_2/advanced/h2_1_3.html
• Nemesis – Goddess of retribution: https://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Nemesis.html
• Romans connected Tyr with Mars: https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/the-aesir-gods-and-goddesses/tyr/
• The make up of a Roman legion: https://www.unrv.com/military/legion.php
• Dune and the system of Kanly https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Kanly
• The Saga of Hakon the Good: https://avaldsnes.info/en/informasjon/hakon-den-gode/
• Adam of Bremen’s account of the Temple at Uppsala: http://www.germanicmythology.com/works/uppsalatemple.html
• Blazing Saddles (1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/
• Human Sacrifice at Trelleborg, there’s some good info here: https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/human-sacrifices/ and here: https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2014/12/02/child_sacrifice_and_other_viking_activities_108967.html
• Pax Deorum:http://www.ancientpages.com/2018/05/01/what-was-pax-deorum-and-how-important-was-it/
• “see here Mars, if you be the man for this job I will give you...” - quote from HBO series Rome (TV series 2005 - 2007)
• “It is better not to give, than to give too much” Havamal verse 144
• “Money is like muck, no good unless spread” Francis Bacon
• ‘If you hoard it, they will come’ paaraphrased from Field of Dreams (1989) ‘If you built it, they will come’ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097351/
• Sigurd and Fafnir - https://www.storynory.com/sigurd-and-the-dragon/
• Caesar – De Bello Gallico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentarii_de_Bello_Gallico
• Tacitus – Germania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania_(book)
• There’s a nice site about the nature of viking sacrifice in Denmark here: https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/the-viking-blot-sacrifices/
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