Viking Sorcery (TRIH ep 358)
793 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview archaeologist and scholar Neil Price about Norse religion, magic (seiðr), and the cultural complexity of the Viking Age. Price discusses his influential books The Viking Way and Children of Ash and Elm, arguing that Viking belief was embedded in everyday life rather than compartmentalized as a separate “religion.” He emphasises Sami and circumpolar shamanistic influences, the centrality of magic and altered states, and Odin’s ambiguous, often...
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Around 793
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Reconquista (722)
- Viking Age (793)
- Coronation of Charlemagne (800)
- Diamond Sutra printed (868)