Episodes
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Frithcast Extra: Cat Rector Returns
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
The fabulous author Cat Rector returns to the virtual campfire to talk about her second book, Epilogues for Lost Gods, the follow up last year's The Goddess of Nothing at All, a Sigyn focussed, queer, dark retelling of Norse myths.
Epilogues is due out on 15th November 2022.
You can find Cat here:
To order books, including signed and hardbacks (and sign up for her newsletter): https://www.catrector.com/
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cat_rector
And also on Instagram and Twitter.
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Frithcast Episode 141 - An Odd Absence of Viking Ghostliness
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
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
· Barghest (phantom black dog): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barghest
· Hathersage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathersage
· Arch in the wall at Church Bank, Hathersage: https://goo.gl/maps/U4DaJHw5u6EfqMHz6
· Olaf, the Viking Monk of Tyemouth Priory: https://great-castles.com/tynemouthghost.html
· The story of Thorgunna the undead cooker-of-breakfast appears at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyrbyggja_saga#Thorgunna
· The full Eyrbyggja Saga, in somewhat archaic language, is at https://sagadb.org/eyrbyggja_saga.en - you'll need to scroll down to Chapter 50 for the beginning of Thorgunna's story; and the seal appears (up to below the flappers, apparently), at the tail end of Chapter 53. Also, carnage at Frotha (or 'Frodis-Water') besides. It's grim, tbh.
· How to find us online
Saturday Oct 15, 2022
Frithcast Episode 140 - The Fresh Prince of Prittlewell
Saturday Oct 15, 2022
Saturday Oct 15, 2022
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
Jennifer's Rabbit - Tom Paxton: https://youtu.be/C-eegzbEwRw
I Give You The Morning - Tom Paxton: https://youtu.be/Pun-y0uGT_8
Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues - Tom Paxton: https://youtu.be/HMHRayIRMvE
Awaken the North: https://awakenthenorth.org/
Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom: https://goo.gl/maps/ZRT4HG5TZFWgSJik9
The Luggage, from the Discworld novels by Sir Terry Pratchett: https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Luggage
Leeloo's reconstruction - from 'The Fifth Element': https://youtu.be/8-uvOpMyPgI
Prittlewell Princely Burial on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prittlewell_royal_Anglo-Saxon_burial
News item in local newspaper re exhibition, May 2019: https://www.halsteadgazette.co.uk/news/south_essex_news/17626925.anglo-saxon-king-exhibition-showing-southends-rich-cultural-heritage-officially-opens/
Dedicated site by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA): https://www.prittlewellprincelyburial.org/
Article on Archaeology.co.uk: https://archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/new-secrets-from-prittlewell-reconstructing-a-burial-chamber-fit-for-a-prince.htm
https://www.anoxfordhistorian.com/post/the-prittlewell-prince
How to find us online
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Frithcast Episode 139: UPG-Raiding: valuing personal gnosis
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Episode 139 UPG-Raiding: Valuing Personal Gnosis
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
Awaken the North: https://awakenthenorth.org/
Ahmad ibn Fadlan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan
A summary of the different stories of Hod. Or Hodr. Or Hotherus: https://norse-mythology.org/hodr/
"In Latin, Jehovah starts with an I" - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989): https://youtu.be/XqGWI0WTj24
"Don't look at the light!" "It's so beautiful!" - A Bug's Life (1998): https://youtu.be/KHDxkXV7xsE
How to find us online
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Frithcast Episode 138 - Perchance to Dream
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Episode 138 Perchance to Dream
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
Opening Poem: 'He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven'; W B Yeats (1899)
Sean Bean reads out the poem 'He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' in an early scene of the 2002 dystopian action movie 'Equilibrium': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/
'The Sandman' (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1751634/), based on the comic book series of the same name by Neil Gaiman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_(comic_book)
Oneiromancy - divination through dreams: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=oneiromancy
Mistletoe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistletoe
Cartman has to finish 'Come Sail Away' by Styx - 'South Park', season 2; episode 'Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Sl*t': https://youtu.be/5Xm2ab3qfZY
'Blackadder III', episode 'Sense and Senility' (BBC 1987): https://youtu.be/h--HR7PWfp0
'To be, or not to be' - Soliloquy from 'Hamlet', Act 3, Scene 1. David Tennant performs an abbreviated version here: https://youtu.be/GD6vDLS_ZZQ
Laxdaela Saga - English translation as 'The Laxdale Saga': https://sagadb.org/laxdaela_saga.en
Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu - English translation as 'The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Rafn the Skald': https://sagadb.org/gunnlaugs_saga_ormstungu.en
Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dream - The Holy Bible - the Book of Genesis, Chapter 41: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2041&version=NASB [Pharaoh had the dream - Joseph interpreted it.]
The portentous dream the Prince Regent had in Blackadder III, episode 6 ('Duel and Duality') featured horses, not cows. Duncan's horses, specifically - as in King Duncan, from Macbeth. (And Kate reckons to be a Blackadder fan, honestly.) Anyway, the exchange is described here (couldn't find a clip): https://johnelliswords.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/blackadders-lost-jokes/
The Jomsviking or the Jomsborg Saga: https://www.jomsborg.co.uk/jomsborg-saga
The Mirror of Galadriel - scene from 'The Lord of the Rings' (Ralph Bakshi's animated version, 1978 - in Peter Jackson's 'Fellowship of the Ring' it's only Frodo that looks into the Mirror): https://youtu.be/jltwAEQ4kGg
"Don't worry about the vase" - Neo meets the Oracle, in 'The Matrix' (1999): https://youtu.be/eVF4kebiks4
If you want to head deeper into how dreams are treated in sagas:
Crocker https://www.jstor.org/stable/48617211
Watson https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/documents/innervate/16-17/13.-watson-l-q33227.pdf
How to find us online
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Frithcast Episode 137 - Ancestors of the Future
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Episode 137 Ancestors of the Future
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
Gary Larson - The Far Side: https://www.thefarside.com/ (The 'Cow Tools' cartoon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Tools ) ('Punk Porcupines': https://www.pinterest.com/pin/211739619970431083/)
Trekkies: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Trekkie (Some fans prefer the term 'Trekker' for various reasons - you may hear either.)
Star Wars fan community: As a term for Star Wars fans, 'Warsies' has been used, mostly as a play on 'Trekkies', but its use was limited in a few forums and it never picked up much traction. 'Star Warrior' and 'Wannabe Jedi' also get mentioned but, again, don't seem to be in common circulation.
Whovian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_fandom
Awaken The North: https://awakenthenorth.org/
Artemis I Lunar Test Flight: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1 (Looks like the next launch window is September 3, 2022; so Saturday, we think, not Friday as Kate said.)
Captain Proton, a fictitious character played by a fictitious character played by Robert Duncan McNeill in 'Star Trek: Voyager': https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Proton
Robert Duncan McNeill - actor and director; played Tom Paris in Star Trek: Voyager, who in turn, within the show, played Captain Proton: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000536/
PIIIIIIGS IIIIIIN SPAAAAAAACE!: https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Pigs_in_Space
I'd put a reference in here for 50 Shades of Grey and how it started out as Twilight fan-fic but we're rated Universal. PG at worst.
'Time' from the 2010 Christopher Nolan movie 'Inception'. The soundtrack was composed by Hans Zimmer. (And this track gives Kate the shivers, she doesn't mind admitting it.): https://youtu.be/c56t7upa8Bk
Lorentz transformation: This is a mathematical method for relating the comparative experiences or observations of two observers in separate space-time reference frames (say, someone standing on a planet and someone moving at high sub-light speed in a starship).
"A big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff." - From the Doctor Who episode 'Blink': https://youtu.be/cwdbLu_x0gY
"All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again." - Battlestar Galactica, the 2003 're-imagining', repeatedly uses this phrase as a quote from an in-universe holy scripture. It's also the first line spoken - fairly inexplicably, if you ask us - by the narrator in Disney's Peter Pan, but try as we might we can't find a decent clip of that.
The Bootstrap Paradox. Gonna go back to the Doctor again to explain this one: https://youtu.be/u4SEDzynMiQ
Despicable Me - Gru announces his (super)villainous plan: https://youtu.be/fdrR3NbPARs
"What we do in life echoes in eternity." From the 2000 movie 'Gladiator': https://youtu.be/UHLmKUoaxY0
"Shadows and dust." Also from 'Gladiator': https://youtu.be/5Z6EvBFblvg
On the reading-out of Shakespeare plays in class: it was actually the other way around than Kate said. It was Brutus talking to Cassius, not Cassius talking to Brutus.
"All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us." Spoken by Gandalf to Frodo in The Lord of the Rings: https://youtu.be/IrOqnZdvI6M?t=116
How to find us online
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Frithcast Episode 136: Bits ’O’ Coin:the Silverdale Hoard
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Episode 136 - Bits ‘o’ Coin: The Silverdale Hoard
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
Oranges and Lemons nursery rhyme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_and_Lemons
‘The Bells of St John’ – Dr Who, series 7 https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Bells_of_Saint_John_(TV_story)
Awaken the North: https://awakenthenorth.org/
Lord of the Rings, Battle of Helms Deep: opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXC-jJhFaUI
Loot box mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S-DGTBZU14
Sue, the T Rex https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/sue-t-rex and her Twitter account: https://twitter.com/SUEtheTrex
Murderbirds: https://coelasquid.tumblr.com/post/111317780763/nebu-kuro
Smaug and his hoard in the Lonely Mountain: The Hobbit: https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Smaug
Half an onion in a bag: https://twitter.com/halfonioninabag
The Silver Horde: https://wiki.lspace.org/Silver_Horde
Treasure Trove Laws in the UK: https://www.gov.uk/treasure
Greek financial crisis: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/070115/understanding-downfall-greeces-economy.asp
The Hoard at Jorvik: https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/whats-on/silverdale-hoard-exhibition/
How to find us online
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Frithcast Episode 135 - Storytime: Some Like it Ott(er)
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Episode 135 Storytime Some Like it Ott(er)
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
Awaken the North https://awakenthenorth.org/
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern – two minor characters from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/rosencrantz-guildenstern-hamlet/
Waiting for Svipdag – Parody of the play ‘Waiting for Godot’ https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-waiting-for-godot
‘Snows always melt’ Mark Anthony in Rome ‘How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd_kh3V1aTM
Shrek (2001) https://www.dreamworks.com/movies/shrek
“I like to think the world is safer now” Kormac, one of the three followers in Diablo III https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Kormac
City of Neriak, Everquest II https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Neriak,_City_of_Hate
Not That ring: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/One_Ring
“I will fong you” Wat from ‘A Knights Tale’ (2001) (also with James Purefoy…) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183790/characters/nm0876138
“This bad boy can hold...” meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/slaps-roof-of-car
Shocko – elf from Disenchantment https://disenchantment.fandom.com/wiki/Shocko
Tim Burton – American filmmaker, with themes of gothic fantasy and horror https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/
Neil Gaiman UK author of books, short stories and series like Sandman, Watchmen and Neverwhere. https://www.neilgaiman.com/
“For hates sake” quote originally from Moby Dick, reused in Star Trek Wrath of Khan
How to find us online
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Frithcast Episode 134 - The One with Other People’s Homework
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Episode 134 - The One with Other Peoples Homework
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
Images from the James Webb Telescope Images: https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/index.html
SMACS 0723 Deep Field image showing gravitational lensing effect on distant galaxies: https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/assets/images/firstImages/image1-DeepField/STSCI-J-p22035a-4000px.jpg
"One hundred and EIGHTYYYYYY!" - Bullseye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullseye_(British_game_show)
Not sure why we both say 'substraction' while we're talking about darts, but Kate definitely started it.
Awaken the North: https://awakenthenorth.org
Lidar in Archaeology: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/lasers-lidar-driving-revolution-archaeology (Site paywalled, but NatGeo allows 3 free article views/month)
"One world, one people" - slogan of the 'Flag Smashers', antagonist group in "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier": https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Flag_Smashers
Diana L. Paxson, author and Steerswoman of The Troth: https://diana-paxson.com/
'The Way of Wyrd' by Brian Bates: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781800170/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_7EPVFYWDA9Z7TESEHE2C
Dinosaurs "Retro vs Modern" series by Nix Illustrations: https://nixillustration.com/category/theme-months/retro-vs-modern/
'Jurassic World': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369610/
'The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia', by Neil Price: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07SC9S8GC/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_AE0WW6E3XPXHR6PS1K0S
Hyggnaþing Old Norse Studies Conference: https://hyggnathing.wordpress.com/
Norse in the North: https://norseinthenorth.wordpress.com/
[Kate says: Dammit, it wasn't Egon; it was Ray he was talking to. Call myself a geek, honestly...]
How to find us online
Friday Jul 01, 2022
Frithcast Episode 133 -Feeling a bit Gothi
Friday Jul 01, 2022
Friday Jul 01, 2022
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
Don’t Starve https://www.klei.com/games/dont-starve
The cave where you don’t need your weapons: Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
Awaken the North https://awakenthenorth.org/
Hotel California, song by The Eagles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVsbvFkhzY4
Hilberts Theory of the Grand Hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faQBrAQ87l4
Theological Seminary – here’s the one in Mirfield https://college.mirfield.org.uk/
Cold Comfort Farm (1995) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112701/
Hold the Door: Hodor from Game of Thrones
How to find us online