{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65a28c429ba8e30016dff20e/6a4170eff045c2057f190027?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Vikings, Pirates and Shipwrecked Princesses ~ with Dr Ragnhild Ljosland","description":"<p><strong>If you love Viking and Scottish history, folk stories and archaeology, this episode is for you! Tonight, Orcadian historian and storyteller Tom Muir and Norwegian scholar Ragnhild Ljosland have a far-reaching conversation covering these things and more:</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>Discovering Orkney through studies; marrying an Orcadian, becoming a scholar, archaeologist and author</strong></li><li><strong>Getting to know people who lived thousands of years ago through names, folk tales, runes ...</strong></li><li><strong>Why didn't the educated classes listen to the old farmers?</strong></li><li><strong>Setting saga poems to ancient tunes and new</strong></li><li><strong>Ancient conversations in runes in Maeshowe tomb</strong></li><li><strong>\"Pict's hooses\" in Orkney and the possible connection with strong home brew</strong></li><li><strong>The \"half-corpse\" hogboon</strong></li><li><strong>How names tell the legends of the people</strong></li><li><strong>The Spanish Armada wrecks, the Jacobites and the Covenentora, and how they figure into the stories of Orkney</strong></li><li><strong>Orkney \"driftwood\" settlers; the relationship to Norse mythology and where we all came from</strong></li><li><strong>The naming story of \"Archie Angel\", survivor of a shipwreck of the ship <em>Archangel</em></strong></li><li><strong>Being given a new name by your new community</strong></li><li><strong>Local stories about decendents from kings in disguise</strong></li><li><strong>Place names with folk tales attached, like \"Cubbie Roo's Burden\"</strong></li><li><strong>Thr Brough of Bigging and the \"Armada men's graves\"; \"the Harray men's graves\" and the seven standing stones - anchoring true stories to landscape</strong></li><li><strong>The fin king, and the tale of how Snoosgarth got its name - learn how to distract a sea monster!</strong></li><li><strong>Orkney tales and Norse mythology similarities</strong></li><li><strong>The Westness Viking walk in Rousay - when stories and archaeology agree</strong></li><li><strong>Where are the St Olaf stories and the black death stories in Orkney?</strong></li><li><strong>Time traveling in Orkney with Raggie: Orkney Time Travel</strong></li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><p><strong>Raggie's paper for Folklore journal, <em>Like Driftwood Taking Root: Folk-Onomastic Origin Legends from the Orkney Island</em>s: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0015587X.2026.2638700</strong></p><p><strong>Raggie's upcoming book for Orkneyology Press: https://www.orkneyology.com/Ragnhild-Ljosland-Orkneyology-Press.html</strong></p><p><strong>Raggie's website: https://brodgar.co.uk/</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Tom Muir and Rhonda Muir"}