Brute Norse Podcast Ep. 22: The Bronze Age Flasher (With Aksel Klausen)

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

Let the Bodies Hit the Bog! (Wetland Sacrifice pt. II): The Brute Norse Podcast ep. 12

In this thrilling conclusion to our wetland venture, Aksel and Eirik take an up close and personal look at some of our favorite bog bodies. We sink knee deep in the mysterious Roman and Migration Era weapon sacrifices, and dive into bog butter, bog milk, and bog cheese, exploring the wonders of ancient refrigeration and self-tanning (turning your face into leather over the course of generations).

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Brute Norse Podcast ep. 11: Battle Axes & Cranium Cults (Wetland Sacrifice pt.I)

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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The Brute Norse Podcast Ep.7: The Chronology of Ancient Scandinavia pt.I

Tick tock, friends and foes. In the next few episodes we're tackling time itself, or rather our tendency to divide the fourth dimension into eras!

Aksel joins the podcast once again to help unravel the dense issue of Scandinavian chronology. We start off softly with a primer on the origin and development of the ages themselves, from the Greek concept of the Golden Age, to the timeline of modern archaeology, before we get into how the Norsemen developed their own system of ages based on surprisingly scientific criteria.

Barbarian Warlords of Free Germania (Pt.2) - The Brute Norse Podcast

In this episode, archaeologist Aksel Klausen takes us deeper into the dank woods of Germania Libera, where we take a brief glance at Germanic, Hunnic, and Roman identity, and how the Post-Roman Germanic kingdoms began to look through the rubble of the empire to legitimize themselves, while other leaders looked to the gods.

On the way, we also find the time to consider Germanic animal ornament as an expression of surrealist art, asemic writing, and runes and writing in a non-written, storytelling culture.

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