Shield of Skuld
Shield of Skuld Podcast
Exploring Viking death, burials and modern afterlives
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Exploring Viking death, burials and modern afterlives

with my colleague Howard Williams, prof. of archaeology at the University of Chester and broadcaster of Archaeodeath (TikTok)

In this episode, we discuss the dead and the undead in Old Norse literature and the Viking world. Main discussion points include the socio-cultural meanings of revenants in the sagas, ways of dealing with the dead, concepts about death and collective memory, as well as the perks of approaching “Norse religion” in its original contexts and modern imagination.

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