Frithcast Episode 78 - Ship Burials

Episode 78 – Ship Burials

 

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

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• Snow White - “Someday my Prince will Come” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0niwn2pOEno
• “You silly twisted boy, you.” Runnig joke from throughout The Goon Show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show_running_jokes
• “I got better” Monty Python and the Holy Grail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
• Pop Tarts https://www.kelloggs.com/en_US/brands/pop-tarts-consumer-brand.html
• Naptha https://www.britannica.com/science/naphtha
• 300 (2006) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416449/
• Two-Man Luge - https://www.cbssports.com/olympics/news/winter-olympics-doubles-luge-is-raising-a-lot-of-questions-and-we-have-answers/
• “The dead don’t bury themselves” quote from Mike Parker Pearson, archaeologist specialising in funerary archaeology, and someone who taught Suzanne archaeology. Try his book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Archaeology-Burial-Michael-Parker-Pearson/dp/0750932767
• The Scar Boat Burial, Sanday, Orkney - http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/scarboat/index.html
• The Scar Whalebone Plaque - http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/scarboat/plaqueimage.htm
• Greek Triremes - https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/ancient-greece/trireme/
• Port an Eline Moir - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/oct/19/viking-burial-ship-found-scotland
• Ritually bent Viking swords - https://press.nordicopenaccess.no/index.php/noasp/catalog/view/51/234/2167-1
• Snape Cemetery - http://eaareports.org.uk/publication/report95/
• The Black Grave, Ukraine - https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/black-grave
• Vendel, Sweden https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2019/07/06/viking-grave-discovery-in-sweden-leaves-archaeologists-stunned/#12bce2fe5e57
• Sutton Hoo https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries/sutton-hoo-and-europe
• Tripods TV series (1984 - 1985) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086818/
• Trickle down economics https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/trickledowntheory.asp
• Oseberg – if you want to go have a peek before we do a double episode on this one, head here: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/
• The Drakken – a replica ship that is huge and currently sailing: https://www.drakenhh.com/ They do a newsletter that you can sign up for.
• The Viking – a replica ship based on the Gokstad viking ship: http://historyofvikings.com/first-viking-ship-replica/ sailed the Atlantic ocean in 1893
• Magnus Magnusson replica – nope, he wrote a book, the one Suzanne was thinking of was the Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl https://www.kon-tiki.no/expeditions/kon-tiki-expedition/
• Ibn Fadlan’s account of a Rus Chieftains funeral http://www.germanicmythology.com/works/PSJibnfadlan.html
• The funeral in Beowulf:http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs2003a/Yesenia&Vivar/funeral.htm
• That lad who discovered the comet… the one Kate was thinking of was a planet: https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-intern-wolf-cukier-new-planet-third-day-2020-1?r=US&IR=T (and another one who discovered a planet: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/11/scoolboy-work-experience-discovers-planet )
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