Frithcast Episode 85 - Runic Inscriptions at Maeshowe

Episode 85 – Runic Inscriptions at Maeshowe

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

 

Waiting for Godot: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-waiting-for-godot

Bacchus https://mythology.net/roman/roman-gods/bacchus/

MIFFS Podcast: https://miffs.podbean.com/ 

“There is no Spoon” From The Matrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXtO5dMqEI

Orkney Islands: https://www.orkney.com/

Three little side alcoves from school are we – paraphrased from Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikaido: https://www.broadwaybox.com/daily-scoop/10-performances-of-three-little-maids-from-school-from-the-mikad/

Three little side alcoves for the elven kings under the sky – paraphrased from Lord of the Rings, the rings of power: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Rings_of_Power

Orkneyinga Saga Chapter 93: The whole saga is here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57723/57723-h/57723-h.htm#h3-XI

GIUK Gap https://military.wikia.org/wiki/GIUK_gap

Churchill Barriers https://www.orkney.com/listings/churchill-barriers

That particular place that Kate can’t name on a family show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twatt,_Orkney (There’s also one in Shetland)

(It’s not on the floor round the bottom of a pillar, but on the marble balcony edge) Runic graffiti in the Hagia Sophia: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/viking-runes-at-hagia-sophia

Runic inscription on the Piraeus Lion:http://viking.archeurope.info/index.php?page=the-lion-from-piraeus

Here’s some pages to help you explore the inscriptions further:

http://www.odinorkney.com/pages/maeshowe/runes.html

https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/from-tablet-to-tablet/final-projects/runic-graffiti-at-maeshowe-orkney-katie-rokakis-13

https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue47/8/index.html

If you’d like to really go all out, here’s an open access thesis on the inscriptions from 2012: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/251932

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