Ep 39 - The History of the Blood Eagle with Luke John Murphy

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

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

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Maybe this would have made a better Halloween episode, but this week is all about the macabre Viking ritual known as the "Blood Eagle," as made famous in the show Vikings. Luke John Murphy has been researching the historical and practical sides of the ritual and has come on the show to share his findings with Mathias and Daniel.

Surprisingly Daniel seems to have an amazing intuitive understanding of the medical science behind cracking open someone's ribcage, to the point that it would be worrying if he wasn't such a nice guy. Luke was an amazing guest so please consider heading over to his website and checking out some of his other academic papers. The one about English hair goddesses sounds particularly fun.

You can find that paper and many more at: luke-murphy.com

Also the issues with Mathias's sound are unfortunately ongoing. The problem isn't with actual equipment it's his internet connection. That's what he gets for living deep in the mountains. Anyway we are working on a solution and appreciate your patience.

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0:00.0	This episode of the podcast is brought to you by my company Horns of Odin.
0:04.4	Now if this week we've got a really exciting announcement and that is that on the 4th of December
0:09.7	we're going to be releasing the biggest ever clothing collection that we've ever done.
0:14.5	The winter rain is going to comprise of last year's winter jacket we brought back in a
0:19.7	brand new color and added a really warm fleece lining to the inside. We've also got an amazing
0:26.7	fisherman sweater. Alongside that we've got a selection of t-shirts. They're all going to have
0:31.7	a petroglyph style design so so we're going to have Odin riding
0:35.5	sleet near, we're going to have Thor with his goats, they've got Frere and his boar, we've also got Freya and her cats. So for those that like things a little bit more simple
0:46.0	we're going to have a couple of t-shirts but we're going to have a petrogly style version of our logo on there.
0:51.1	We've also got a selection of hats and scarfs. So whatever you do just
0:55.5	check out the website on the 4th of December and you're going to see some
0:58.7	amazing new products. Don't forget the listeners of the podcast get an extra 10% off anything store wide with the code horns 10.
1:07.0	So that's the code horns 10 which will get you 10% of everything store wide including the new range. Hello and welcome to Nori mythology podcast. I'm
1:35.0	Daniel Farron co-owner-Myhorne's voting and I'm joined as always by Dr.
1:39.2	Matas Nordwig.
1:40.2	Hello, our guest today is Dr Luke John Murphy, who is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Iceland.
1:50.0	He's a specialist in pre-Christian Scandinavian religion and he works among other things
1:59.8	with well the Easter Bunny but aside from the Easter
2:03.8	money.
2:04.8	Who is not Scandinavian necessarily I just I feel I have to point out in this context.
2:09.4	That that is true yes, not Scandinavian and such.
2:12.8	But aside from that, you also have worked a little with the
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