Frithcast Episode 89 - Idunna and Her Apples

Episode 89 – Idunna and Her Apples

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

 

“She is a woman” Blackadder ‘Bells’ Season 2

“There are five lights!” Captain Picard, Star Trek TNG, two-part episode ‘Chain of Command’

Frithcast Episode 63 – The Case of the Missing Apples

Frithcast episode 22 – Can the Mountains Love the Sea?

Tacitus – Germania “They cut a branch from a fruit (nut) bearing tree”

Eostre – the one reference from Bede http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/bede_on_eostre.htm

Idunn Mons – volcano on Venus

Olympus Mons

Hebe – Greek Goddess of youth https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/goddesses/hebe/

Bucket of apples at Oseberg https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/btbcpk/oseberg_bucket_norway_ca_ad_1200_found_on_the/

Atalanta and Milanion’s foot race with golden apples: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Atalanta

The golden apple that starts the Trojan War https://aphrodite101.weebly.com/the-golden-apple---how-the-trojan-war-began.html

Hera also has a sacred tree which grows golden apples

Eris (the planet) moon Dysnomia https://www.universetoday.com/40698/dysnomia/

The Silver Bough with Golden Apples from Irish Mythology: https://mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Silver_Branch

William Butler-Yeats ‘The Song of the Wandering Aengus’: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55687/the-song-of-wandering-aengus

‘The Goblin Market’poem by Christina Rossetti: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market

If you’d like to listen to a BBC radio adaptation of her tale, it’s here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4Q7GBN2MWz5Wz3QR1my6Hjf/viking-sagas-the-apples-of-iduna

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