Ep 260 - Viking Age Slavery and Captivity with Ben Raffield

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

Historical, Nordic, Norse Mythology, History, Comedy, Odin, Mythology, Education, Medieval, Viking, Myth, Vikings, Thor, Norse

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Dan and Margrethe catch up with Ben Raffield to tackle one of the darkest sides of history, around slavery and the internal hierarchies born from forced labour.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Nordic mythology podcast. I'm Daniel Farrant, owner of the company Horns of Odin.
0:11.6	As always, before we jump into the show, I do have to plug our Patreon. It's how we keep the lights on.
0:18.2	I said every week, I know everybody's probably sick of hearing it,
0:21.5	but it really is the lifeline of the show.
0:24.1	So if you can pop over to Patreon 4-slash Norden mythology podcast
0:28.1	and have a look at all the things we have on offer there.
0:31.4	We are hopefully working on a new little show myself and Mags
0:35.5	where we may or may not be reading through smutty viking literature
0:40.4	which would be really fun so let's know if you would like us to do that but at the moment you
0:48.5	have the Q&A episode which is the primary feature on there it's a bumper to every episode that we do where we sit down
0:55.2	with our guests and let the patrons ask some questions. And there are a lot of fun. There's always
0:59.5	a lot of extra information in there. And at this point, there must be hundreds on the page.
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1:11.0	and just tell someone about it. Tell them to listen. That'd be great. Really appreciate that.
1:15.8	But let's get into today's show. It's a little bit of a heavy topic, but it's one that I know
1:20.4	will learn lots about. I'm really excited. So, firstly, I'm joined by my lovely co-host and in-house
1:26.7	archaeologist, Mags Havgar.
1:29.2	Hello, everyone.
1:30.5	Hello.
1:31.2	Thank you for joining us.
1:33.3	And our guest is reoccurring.
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