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Frithcast Episode 72 - Random Reel The Three

Episode 72 – Random Reel the Three

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

 

Five Minutes with Coffee

A Knights Tale of High Notes

A Wild Hair Appears

Borked

Can’t Click

Don’t Stop us Now

Elephant in Clogs

Episo Espoid

Fighting for Freedom Without Trousers

Freud, Ice Cream and Lesbians

Suzanne Sings

Hybrid Scots

Kate Finds Coffee in Her Rum

Kate Sings

Marylin Manson and Sport

Sniff

Soldier Out of Tune

Supersonic Second Lines

What Number are we on Exactly?

Yaaas Queen

 

We’ve been doing Frithcast for three years. Seventy one regular episodes so far. You’ve been listening to a Heathen and a coffee-powered Druid chatter on about modern heathenry with a good sprinking of quotes and geekery for three years. And you, lovely listeners, are the reason that we have. So, we’d like to say thank you, in the only way that we can: to celebrate our third birthday, we’d like to present you with a very special episode. As last years random reel, we present clips of some of the funny moments that didn’t quite make it to the episodes. No shownotes this time, you’ve earned a break.

Thank you from us to you, we hope you enjoy, and carry on listening :)

Suzanne and Kate

Frithcast Episode 71 - Storytime - The One with Boopbeak In

Episode 71 – Storytime – The One With Boopbeak In.

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

 

• Po – Kung Fu Panda – film 2008 https://kungfupanda.fandom.com/wiki/Po
• Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness – John Keats ‘Ode to Autumn’ https://poets.org/poem/autumn
• Proserpina: http://www.talesbeyondbelief.com/roman-gods/proserpina.htm
• “Nor glom of nit” - Going Postal by Terry Pratchett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Postal
• Chekov’s gun: https://www.nownovel.com/blog/use-chekhovs-gun/
• The fairies gifting Aurora before Maleficent arrives: from Sleeping Beauty https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Flora,_Fauna,_and_Merryweather
• Maltese Falcon film (1941) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870/
• Mcguffin: a literary device around which the plot revolves but which doesn’t do anything. See the suitcase in Pulp Fiction for a modern example https://www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/articles/what-is-a-mcguffin
• That scene in John Wick (the quote is at 7:40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZBRrYEGET8
• Eastenders Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYa_KfLTtM
• “Curses, he missed the note” The Goon Show, series 5 episode 7 ‘China Story’ http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e17_china_story
• “Always in the last place you look, like stockings” – Flemeth, DragonAge
• Excalibur: the name of the sword of King Arthur: https://www.ancient.eu/Excalibur/
• Glamdring – Gandalf’s sword from Lord of the Rings: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Glamdring
• “Your father smells of elderberries” Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/
• Smol Snek: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/snek
• “Look at his little back leg going like the clappers” Round the Horne:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_the_Horne
• “Hey! Listen!” Navi from The Legend of Zelda games https://zelda.gamepedia.com/Navi
• Rubber chicken with a pulley in it – Monkey Island computer game: https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Rubber_Chicken_With_A_Pulley_In_The_Middle
• Tea and No Tea from the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy computer game: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
• Zac McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders: PC game from 1988 https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders
• Chamberlain – character from The Dark Crystal (Film and TV series) https://darkcrystal.fandom.com/wiki/SkekSil
• “I shall do such things, what they are yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth” King Lear, Act 2, Scene 4
• “I don’t know if they grade it, but… coarse” - Sterling Archer, Archer, episode ‘Mole Hunt’ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1539157/characters/nm0168642
• If you’d like to read the Ballad of Svipdag for yourself, you can find it here: https://thenorsegods.com/the-ballad-of-svipdag/
• How to find us online

Frithcast Episode 70 - The Saga of Burnt Njal part 2

Episode 70 – Njals Saga part 2

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

 

• The Sword of Damocles https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-sword-of-damocles
• Hamlet’s father’s ghost https://www.shmoop.com/hamlet/ghost.html
• Asterix and Obelix: https://www.asterix.com/en/portfolio/obelix/
• Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar – from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere: http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/croup.htm
• "Passport in the name of Emily Berkenstien” The book of Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
• “Two heated towel rails” Lenny Henry, Live and Unleashed: https://youtu.be/Vd6CqB144JA?t=1371
• “Good Yard” from a drunk student emailing his professor to ask for an extension: https://imgur.com/gallery/w7tqd
• Nero in Star Trek (2009) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/?ref_=tt_ch
• Mindhunter (2017 -2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5290382/
• Game of Thrones https://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones
• Jean Baptiste Emmanuelle Zorg, the 5^th Element (1997( https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Element
• John Wick (2014) https://john-wick.fandom.com/wiki/John_Wick_(film)
• Dallas (1978 – 1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077000/
• Dynasty (1981 – 1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081856/
• How to find us online

 

Frithcast Episode 69 - The Saga of Burnt Njal part 1

Episode 69 – Njals Saga part 1

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

 

• “Write the theme tune, sing the theme tune” from the character Dennis Waterman, Little Britain https://littlebritain.fandom.com/wiki/Dennis_Waterman
• “You must watch these little points” The Goon Show, The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved). First broadcast 16^th November 1964 http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e08_the_mystery_of_the_marie_celeste_solved
• Suzanne totally forgot which episode the Beowulf episode was, it was episode 6. Not episode 5, which was 9 realms in 20 minutes…
• Blackadder and Baldrick’s short holiday, in Dish and Dishonesty from 1986
• Segway - http://uk-en.segway.com/
• Isle of Lewis Chessmen – especially the Berserker piece biting on his own shield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen
• George RR Martin – author of A Song of Ice and Fire, made into the TV series of Game of Thrones
• Minecraft sheep: https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Sheep
• Tom Bombadill: character from Lord of the Rings (cut from the film adaptations): https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_Bombadil
• Luke Skywalker and Biggs Darklighter: childhood friends in the Star Wars Universe: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Biggs_Darklighter/Legends
• Asterix and Obelix: https://www.asterix.com/en/portfolio/obelix/
• “Running, jumping climbing trees” Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill
• Being a lumberjack – The Lumberjack Song from Monty Python, British Comedy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRdur8GLBM
• TLC, No Scrubs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrLequ6dUdM
• “Possibly Brain, but where are we going to get…?” Pinky and the Brain: https://pinkyandthebrain.fandom.com/wiki/Are_You_Pondering_What_I%27m_Pondering%3F
• The Importance of Being Earnest – the tea party scene between Cecily and Gwendoline https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/earnest/section4/
• HBO’s Rome: Attia and Sevillia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-Jb_uZSPc
• Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar – from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere: http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/croup.htm
• If you’d like to look at the saga before our part II, head here: https://www.gradesaver.com/njals-saga
• How to find us online

Frithcast Episode 68 - Come Kif - Following St Ansgar

Episode 68 – Come Kif! Following St Ansgar

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

 

• Tessa Thompson: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1935086/
• “Hola Commander, have a muffin.” Strike Commander: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_Commander
• “If you’re looking for adventure, I bet my shinies will tempt you.” Everquest II
• “Robust ...precise...” The Sommelier Scene from John Wick II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUpfO4x8Ch8
• Status Quo – famous for using three main chords in their songs: http://www.statusquo.co.uk/
• Zapp Brannigan - from Futurarma: https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Zapp_Brannigan
• Ace Rimmer – from Red Dwarf:http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/a/acerimmr.htm
• Ab Urbe Condita – “From the founding of the city”
• “Abbot says ‘Come Home’” a paraphrase of ‘Gerda says come home’ one of the number of rune sticks found in Bergen: http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/40/v40i02p049-058.pdf
• Dread Pirate Roberts – from The Princess Bride: https://princessbride.fandom.com/wiki/Dread_Pirate_Roberts
• London Vatican Embassy https://www.visahq.co.uk/vatican/embassy/united-kingdom/
• A bit Pete Tong – Cockney Rhyming Slang for ‘a bit wrong’
• “A passport in the name of Emily Berkenstein” From Red Dwarf: https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/Mimas
• An English translation of the Vita Anskari is available here: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/anskar.asp
• If you look at other sources for Ansgar, contrast them with this one: http://www.oodegr.com/english/biographies/arxaioi/Ansgar_Hamburg.htm
• How to find us online

Frithcast Episode 67 - Vikings and Christians

Episode 67 - Vikings and Christians

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

 

• “Kate von Lichtenstein” - paraphrased from A Knight’s Tale (2001) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183790/
• Sashay Away – Ru Paul, especially in Ru Paul’s Drag Race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLpMwN9n0ZM
• Invader Zim https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235923/
• The Golgafrinshan B Ark: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_Ship_B
• Ibn Fadlan’s account of the Rus Chieftains burial: https://www.worldbulletin.net/history/perception-of-the-vikings-from-ibn-fadlans-glance-in-al-risala-h115169.html
• The Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eaters-Dead-Michael-Crichton/dp/0099222825
• The 13^th Warrior (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120657/
• The Anglo Saxon Chronicle https://www.britannica.com/topic/Anglo-Saxon-Chronicle
• Runestones in Sweden https://mashable.com/2017/01/07/runestones-of-sweden/?europe=true
• The conversion of Northern Europe – Suzanne likes Fletcher’s book “The Conversion of Europe: From Paganism to Christianity 371 – 1386 AD” - accessible for the non-academic and a good overview of the whole period.
• “5... 10, 20 big lads” Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves (1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102798/
• Runestones were painted: https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/power-and-aristocracy/rune-stones/ and also http://www.the-ninth-age.com/community/index.php?thread/43805-painted-runestones/ for images
• Roman statues were also painted: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/gods-in-color-ancient-world-polychromy/index.html and here for a video: https://theancienthome.com/blogs/blog-and-news/greek-roman-statues-painted
• Civic works mentioned on runestones: the brige at Taby - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarlabanke_Runestones
• Adam of Bremen: esp his description of the temple at Uppsala http://www.germanicmythology.com/works/uppsalatemple.html
• Redwaaaaall! Rom the Brian Jacques childrens book series https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/DUI/redwall
• Bede and his account of King Redwald’s two altars: https://wuffingeducation.co.uk/information/previous-study-days/2015-jan-to-march/temple-of-the-two-altars/
• Emperor Julian the Apostate https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julian-Roman-emperor
• Pharoh Akenton https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/pharaoh-akhenaten-different-view-heretic-king-005249
• Top down and bottom up conversion in the early church: https://www.history.com/news/inside-the-conversion-tactics-of-the-early-christian-church
• The Emperor’s new clothes https://andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheEmperorsNewClothes_e.html
• Sutton Hoo’s christening spoons: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=86503&partId=1&searchText=byzantine&place=35846&page=1
• The conversion of St Paul: https://catholicexchange.com/the-conversion-of-st-paul
• The Irish Crozier and Buddha finds from Helgo: http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viking-age-buddha/
• How to find us online

Frithcast Episode 66 - Thats Really Wyrd

Episode 66 – That’s really Wyrd

Big love and shout out to Lisa Barnett who suggested the topic for this episode

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

• Sew.. a deer, a female deer – parpahrased from Do, Re, Mi, The Sound of Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RW3nDRmu6k
• Beowulf – Seamus Heaney performed by the Holdfast Theatre Company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqhqSKXahCI
• Cork version of Beowulf. The audio first part is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-1-gNeoCU8P7oAY5FaXd5uXviLrsPJV9/view and there’s more here: https://boyowulf.home.blog/2019/03/20/boyo-wulf-ll-1-19/
• The Cowboy Havamal – Prof Jackson Crawford: https://jacksonwcrawford.com/the-cowboy-havamal/
• “On the raggedy edge, don’t push me...” Capt. Mal Reynolds. Serenity (2005) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Serenity_(film)
• “Execute episode 66.” paraphrased from The Emperor, Star Wars: Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
• Rosecarntz and Guilderstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rosencrantz-Guildenstern-Are-Dead-Stoppard/dp/0802126219
• The Merchant of Venice: more notably the Diane Duane version in which Shylock is awarded a pound of flesh and decides that the pound he wants is Antonio’s heart...
• Bablyon 5 episode: A View from the Gallery (Season 5, episode 4, 1998) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0517621/
• Dree your Wyrd: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dree_one%27s_weird
• The Wall and Wildlings – from the books series ‘Song of Ice and Fire’, GRR Martin. https://www.waterstones.com/category/science-fiction-fantasy-horror/fantasy/a-game-of-thrones
• Stoicism – short video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhn1Fe8cT0Q
• “They know their doom but not the hour” The Emperor Uriel Septim in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Emperor_Uriel_Septim
• Galadriel. Lord of the Rings– “the mirror shows that which was, that which is and that which has not yet come to pass.”
• The Wanderer – https://anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/the-wanderer/
• Fafnismal – “to go against fate is to row against a fierce wind”
• Dante’s Inferno: http://www.worldofdante.org/inferno1.html
• Lindsay Ellis (as Loose Canon) discussion of Hades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmcV90cya1Y
• The Norns and the Parkai: https://www.indeuropean.com/religion/gods/fate-goddess
• Njal’s Saga – that loom from chapter 156: http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/darra.htm
• Valkerie in Thor Ragnarok https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Valkyrie
• T-Rex on the Plain! A clumsy way for the GM of a roleplaying game to force the players back onto the storyline. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/KillerGameMaster
• Star Trek The Next Generation: Cause and Effect (Season 5, episode 18)
• Time Loops and Doctor Who: particularly ‘Heaven Sent’ (series 9, episode 11) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Sent_(Doctor_Who)
• Chronology Protection Conjecture- Stephen Hawking: there’s a Scientific American article here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-chronology-protection/
• “The cake is a lie” from the game ‘Portal’ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-cake-is-a-lie
• Nihilism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ajv-RrQs4o
• Abnigation – from the Divergent series: https://divergent.fandom.com/wiki/Abnegation
• “Fear profits man nothing.” The 13^th Warrior (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120657/
• A magicians choice, or equivocation https://secrets-explained.com/basic-techniques/magician-s-choice
• Fate and free will in Frank Herbert’s Dune: https://www.shmoop.com/dune/fate-free-will-theme.html
• Dr Who and Fixed Points in Time:https://doctorwhowatch.com/2014/10/13/fixed-points-time-doctor/
• Terminator Timeline(s): https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/The_Terminator_timeline
• Professor KJ Wanner: https://wmich.edu/religion/directory/wanner (mentioned in: https://study.com/academy/lesson/wyrd-in-beowulf.html)
• Theodicy: the problem of evil in monoetheism: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/student-zone/philosophy-of-religion/the-problem-of-evil/theodicies
• Fate in Greek tragedy – Hamartia: https://www.britannica.com/art/hamartia
• Star Trek Voyager: The Year of Hell https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709014/
• The Butterfly Effect: https://interestingengineering.com/what-exactly-is-the-butterfly-effect
• Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Trials and Tribble-ations (Based on Origianl Series ‘The Trouble with Tribbles’) https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Trials_and_Tribble-ations_(episode)
• The Pistol Star https://www.constellation-guide.com/pistol-star/
• The Great Annihalator (not the biggest black hole in the galaxy for some reason…) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Annihilator
• “Why is it that cats have the majority on flaps? Take your cat and your flap, and...” Lenny Henry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXkxXDT1-F8
• How to find us online

Frithcast Episode 65 Rune Spotlight - Uruz the Wildercow

Episode 65 – Uruz – The Wildercow

 

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

 

Bos Primigenius, the wild aurochs: https://prehistoric-fauna.com/Bos-primigenius

Hinge and Bracket: http://hingeandbracketofficial.co.uk/AboutHingeAndBracket.html

Terminus: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terminus

De Bello Gallico: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentarii_de_Bello_Gallico

Terrordog – from Ghostbusters https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Terror_dogs_(Type_of_Creatures)

Bull and Bear Markets https://www.investopedia.com/insights/digging-deeper-bull-and-bear-markets/

Horns in Sutton Hoo: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/drinking-horns-from-the-ship-burial-at-sutton-hoo/twFuvoV610_wMQ

Grendel – from Beowulf: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Grendel

The rune poems – three with their english translations: https://www.ragweedforge.com/poems.html

Kennings: https://www.theschoolrun.com/what-is-a-kenning

Christian Laboutin shoes: http://eu.christianlouboutin.com/uk_en/

Terry Pratchett – metal high heels for lady dwarves: see especially Cheery Littlebotton to Cherry Littlebottom.

Thelwell Pony: http://www.thelwell.org.uk/

Fizzgig – from the Dark Crystal https://darkcrystal.fandom.com/wiki/Fizzgig

“Grey is the usual colour, majesty...” Blackadder Season II episode: ‘Head’ 1986 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526718/characters/nm0000410

“What’s an elephant?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smN4_9PwZOw

“There will be no capes” Edna Mole from the Incredibles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M68ndaZSKa8

Just William books https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/just-william-100-year-anniversary-richmal-crompton-children-books-a8777626.html

How to find us online

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/
• How to find us online

Frithcast Episode 63 Storytime - The Case of the Missing Apples

Episode 63 – The Case of the Missing 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]

How to find us online

• If you’d like to read the original of this tale, you’re looking for the Skáldskaparmál chapter 56.
• “A new life awaits you in Midgard...” paraphrased from the opening advert in Bladerunner (1982)
• “A night when the sky came down and wrapped itself...” paraphrased from the opening of The Big Sleep by Mickey Spillaine (1939)
• June 793 – the date of the Viking raid on Lindesfarne, as recorded in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle
• “A more wretched hive of scum and villany” Ben Kenobi, Star Wars IV A New Hope (1977) (well, we had to get one geek reference in...)
• There’s a lot of sound effects in this one. A lot. If you’re really into them, you can find plenty on Freesound, Sound Bible, Youtube and Ambient Mixer. We’ve used all of these under creative commons license, here’s some of the more prominent ones:
• ambient-mixer.com:
  City ambience based on Gotham City Rain by mosca67
  Gin Joint based on Noir Cafe by scathach
  Office based on Valentine Detective Agency by FalloutThoughts
  Music 'Film Noir' by Matthew Pablo
  
• YouTube:
  Gunshots Ricochet by SoundEffectsFactory via YouTube
  Ambience police sirens sampled from "Federal Electric, Type 8, Siren 1920's to 40's" by Skulldigger via YouTube
  'Ain't She Sweet' by Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
  
  Freesound:
  Car Stopping by Ermens