Sagas w/Shawn - Gods and Kings

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22 hours ago

In this episode, Shawn discusses the mythic origins of the Merovingians, in one part using their very loose parallels to the Volsungs (Sigeberht/Sigurd and Brunhilda/Brynhild), in an effort to link them to Odin. Whether the Merovingians or Volsungs, their habits of killing their in-laws would make for a hilarious 90s sitcom Shawn also discusses another figure with Merovingian Blood, that descends from the All-Father, namely Eadbald of Kent, so adding the early kingdoms of Frankia totally hold...

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Sagas w/Shawn - Gods and Kings

E8: The Legacy of the All-Father - Odin, Jesus, and the Merovingian Kings of France

1 week ago

50 minutes

Sagas w/Shawn - Gods and Kings

E7: Ivar the Wide-Fathom: The Serpent Who Conquered Too Much

Before Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons set out to conquer the Viking world, there was Ivar the Wide Fathom, Ragnar's great-great-grandfather who decided that one kingdom simply was not enough. In this episode, Shawn explores how Ivar toppled (well, sort of) two of the most powerful dynasties in Norse legend, the Ynglings of Sweden and the Skjoldungs of Denmark, drawing from the Ynglinga Saga, Saga of Hervor and Heidrik, Hversu Noregr Byggdist, and Sögubrot af fornkonungum. Through these overlappi...

4 weeks ago

27 minutes

Sagas w/Shawn - Gods and Kings

E6: The Legacy of the All-Father V – Saeming, the Aesir/Vanir War, and Norway’s Mythic Origins

In this episode, Shawn looks at yet another son of Odin, who supposedly served as the ancestor of the legendary kings of Norway. This time it’s Saeming, born from Odin’s affair with the goddess Skadi. Since the sources don’t give us much on Saeming himself, we detour (as usual) into chaos: Thjazi the giant steals the apples of youth, the gods start to age and get pissed off, Thjazi dies, and his daughter Skadi demands compensation, somehow ending up in the horrible marriage with the Vanir sea...

1 month ago

33 minutes

Sagas w/Shawn - Gods and Kings

E5: The Legacy of the All-Father IV - The House of Skjoldung and the Legendary Kings of Denmark

The Legacy of the All-Father (Part 4): The House of Skjoldung In this episode, Shawn heads back to Denmark to discuss the legendary Kings of Denmark all the way back to its supposed founding, with the House of Skjoldung. Since the completed Skjoldung Saga isn't available, we need to look at 7 different sources to track its family line, with roughly half of them showing Skjold, the family's namesake, as being the son of Odin. We focus a bit on the last king of the Skjoldungs, Hrolf Kraki, his ...

2 months ago

42 minutes

Sagas w/Shawn - Gods and Kings

E4: The Legacy of the All-Father III - The Anglo-Saxon Kings of England

The Legacy of the All-Father (Part 3): The Anglo-Saxon Kings of England In this episode, Shawn sails west across the North Sea to follow Odin’s bloodline into the early kingdoms of England. Here the stories shift from distant myth to accounts recorded only a few generations after the events they describe, where royal genealogies boldly claim descent from Woden, the Anglo-Saxon name for the All-Father. We begin with the saga of Ragnar Lodbrok, bridging the legendary vengeance of his sons with ...

2 months ago

35 minutes

Sagas w/Shawn - Gods and Kings

E3: The Legacy of the All-Father II - The First Kings of the North

In this episode, Shawn returns back to Midgard, where the influence of the All-Father shifts from mythic creation to shaping the destinies of men. As seen in Grímnismál, Odin shows he meddles in royal succession, punishing cruel kings and rewarding their kinder sons. That same divine interference sets the stage for Odin’s legacy to flow through human bloodlines, shaping the earliest monarchies of the North. We then explore how the legendary couple Ragnar Lodbrok and Aslaug becam...

3 months ago

33 minutes

Sagas w/Shawn - Gods and Kings

E2: The Legacy of the All-Father I - The Mythical Sons of Odin

The Legacy of the All-Father (Part 1): The Mythical Sons of Odin In this episode, Shawn ventures deeper into Norse Mythology to explore the sons of the god nearly at the top of the family tree, Odin, as told in Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda. Using the first 3 parts of the edda, you have a list of 10 gods mentioned as being the son of the All-Father (one also being his grandson funny enough)..... And also a daughter/wife who is also a celestial body we may know of... Per Gylfaginni...

3 months ago

34 minutes

Sagas w/Shawn - Gods and Kings

E1: The Divine Ancestry of Harald Fairhair, First King of Norway

The Divine Ancestry of Harald Fairhair. In the first episode of "Sagas w/Shawn - Gods and Kings" Shawn dives into the ancestry of Harald Fairhair, the first King of a Unified Norway (872 ce). Was Harald truly descended from the Norse gods Freyr, Niord, and even the All-Father Odin himself? Or did later authors fabricate these supposed connections to elevate the status of their own culture and history? Using the sources "Heimskringla", "The Saga of the Volsungs", and "The Saga of Ragnar Lodbro...

4 months ago

41 minutes