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Episode 38 - Eating Hearts and Drinking Blood

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This time we dig into a rarely discussed aspect of Norse mythology: stealing your enemy's power by eating their heart or drinking their blood. But just who's power can be stolen by way of this gory ritual? Animals? Monsters? Humans? Let's find out together.

Sources:

    • “Heimskringla Volume 1, The Beginnings to Óláfr Tryggvason” transl. by Alison Finlay and Anthony Faulkes, 2011
    • “Gesta Danorum” transl. by Karsten Friis-Jensen and Peter Fisher, 2015
    • “The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki” transl. By Jesse Byock, 1998
    • “The Dating of Eddic Poetry: Evidence from Alliteration” by Haukur Þorgeirsson, 2016
    • “Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda” by Christopher Sapp, 2022
    • "Eaten hearts and supernatural knowledge in Eiríks saga rauða" by Andrea Maraschi, 2018
    • “The Poetic Edda”, transl. by Edward Pettit, 2023
    • “The Prose Edda”, transl. by Anthony Faulkes, 1995
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    Celebration by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    This time we dig into a rarely discussed aspect of Norse mythology: stealing your enemy's power by eating their heart or drinking their blood. But just who's power can be stolen by way of this gory ritual? Animals? Monsters? Humans? Let's find out together.

    Sources:

    • “Heimskringla Volume 1, The Beginnings to Óláfr Tryggvason” transl. by Alison Finlay and Anthony Faulkes, 2011
    • “Gesta Danorum” transl. by Karsten Friis-Jensen and Peter Fisher, 2015
    • “The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki” transl. By Jesse Byock, 1998
    • “The Dating of Eddic Poetry: Evidence from Alliteration” by Haukur Þorgeirsson, 2016
    • “Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda” by Christopher Sapp, 2022
    • "Eaten hearts and supernatural knowledge in Eiríks saga rauða" by Andrea Maraschi, 2018
    • “The Poetic Edda”, transl. by Edward Pettit, 2023
    • “The Prose Edda”, transl. by Anthony Faulkes, 1995
  • Contact:

    Music:

    Celebration by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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