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SUBSCRIBE to the OFFICIAL BBC YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2IXqEIn LAUNCH BBC iPlayer to access Live TV and Box Sets: https://bbc.in/2J18jYJ More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00schjq Professor Robert Bartlett...

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164 This episode covers the reign of Edward the Confessor including his problematic nobility and close links with Normandy. The main event is of course...

A summary of the Norman Conquest of England, 1066-1071 CE.

The women known as Valkyries (Old Norse 'Valkyrja') feature in countless stories of the Norse gods and heroes. Dr. Jackson Crawford is a historical linguist and an experienced teacher of both Old Norse and Modern Icelandic. He currently...

A slide show of food and drink in ancient Egypt

Stone age people begin to produce a surplus of food so they can trade it to neighboring villages for food or products not available in their area

Everything You Need to Know About the Ancient Maya Food Culture

A look at some interesting scenes in the Eddas where someone goes to, or from, Hel, and how. Dr. Jackson Crawford is Instructor of Nordic Studies and Nordic Program Coordinator at the University of Colorado Boulder (formerly UC Berkeley...

Most of our sources for Norse myth tell of gods and great heroes, but constant references in the sagas also reveal a belief in spirits called dís (plural dísir) and fylgja (plural fylgjur) that we only vaguely understand today. This is a...

The sagas tell us that the Vikings believed in an undead creature much like the zombie or traditional Eastern European portrayals of the vampire. Dr. Jackson Crawford is Instructor of Nordic Studies and Nordic Program Coordinator at the...