Frithcast Episode 145 A Terribly Serious Study of Egil’s Saga

Frithcast

Episode 145: A Terribly Serious Study of Egil’s Saga

Things we talk about in this episode:

Opening Music:

'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]

Closing Music:

'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]

Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org

Egil's Bones" - article on Paget's Disease (Byock 1995): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/egils-bones/ [Paywalled (and very poorly OCR scanned) ]

"Palaeopathology by proxy: The case of Egil's bones" (Weinstein 2009; Journal of Archaeological Science): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43494397_Palaeopathology_by_proxy_The_case_of_Egil%27s_bones [Abstract freely available, full article paywalled]

Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, renowned Egyptologist, mentioned unflatteringly in 'Stargate' (1994): https://youtu.be/WskWZfFpWNI

"Do Your Own Research" - aka Argumentum ad YouTube: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Do_your_own_research

Flat Earth conspiracy theories: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Flat_Earth

Fallen London: https://www.fallenlondon.com/login

Awaken the North: https://awakenthenorth.org/

"Two heated towel rails" - Lenny Henry, "Lenny Live and Unleashed" (1989): https://youtu.be/IAZ_39f1p-0?t=1374

Well of COURSE we were going to link it. Great song, nonsense lyrics. Good luck getting rid of the earworm. "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher", from Netflix's 'The Witcher': https://youtu.be/6Y3rmXkIarQ

Spike ('Buffy the Vampire Slayer'): https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Spike

'Forrest Gump' (1994): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern

Mastodon (social network): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)

Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_under_Elon_Musk

Greta Thunberg burns far-right influencer Andrew Tate at his own request: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/31/greta-thunberg-andrew-tate-tweet

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