bronze age — Brute Norse

In this smoking hot episode of the BN Pod, Aksel Klausen returns for banter-filled spitballing on ancient Scandinavia and new old news from European prehistory. Like, Whatever happened to that frickin’ viking ship (?) from episode 14, and what's up with these Viking Era mortuary houses?

Some of the subjects tackled this time around:

- The Crossroads exhibit at the Art & History Museum, Brussels.
- Migration period identity.
- Aksel's time travel hitlist.
- Preliminary results from the Gjellestad ship excavation.
- Democratization of Viking burial practice.
- A phallic stone from Bronze Age Sweden.
- Iron Age mortuary houses.
- Eirik's dream burial.
- Hollow promises of future podcast subjects.
- The afterlife, reincarnation, and Germanic naming conventions.

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Some topical links for this episode:
Help name the new moons of Saturn:
carnegiescience.edu/NameSaturnsMoons

Why are adult daughters missing from ancient German cemeteries?
www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/wh…rman-cemeteries

The Crossroads exhibit at the Art & History Museum, Brussels:
https://www.artandhistory.museum/exhibitions/crossroads

The recent Gjellestad ship excavations:
www.khm.uio.no/english/about/new…king-ship%21.html

"The Rollsbo Penis":
www.thelocal.se/20190926/swedish-…ollsbo-bronze-age

A recently excavated Viking Era mortuary house:
www.nrk.no/viten/arkeologer-ve…ingtiden-1.14707210

In this episode, Eirik and Aksel begin their journey into the bogs of Northern Europe. Along the way we stop to look at:

Water symbolism in:

Norse mythology

Viking Era burial practices

Northern European Folklore

Water depositions from:

The Northern Mesolithic,

their Bronze Age development,

and mentally prepare for the grim reality of Iron Age human sacrifice.

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