January 15th, 2020
Episode 74 – The One With 20 Giant Cats
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
“Exits stage left” Bluebottle, from the Goon Show
The Watershed: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/advice-for-consumers/television/what-is-the-watershed
Cracked: https://www.cracked.com/
Cats: https://www.catsthemusical.com/
The Rise of Skywalker (2019): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2527338/
“Walking uphill both ways….” ‘When I was your age’ trope - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhenIWasYourAge
Diablo - https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Diablo_(Game)
Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q
Mirror Universe – from Star Trek: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Mirror_universe
Pokemon Trainer – from Pokemon: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Trainer
“We were set upon by like, five, ten, twenty big… huge lads” From Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (1991)
Smudging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smudging
Ghostwatch https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41740176
Starks – from Game of Thrones https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/House_Stark
Obelix – from Asterix and Obelix: https://www.asterix.com/en/portfolio/obelix/
Road Runner from the Wile. E Coyote cartoons https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Road_Runner
The guards in the Count of Monte Cristo: to escape from the Chateau D’If Edmond Dantes has swapped himself for the body of his friend The Priest, and put himself in the body bag to be thrown over the cliff. As he gets thrown off the clifftop, he grabs the keys at the Wardens belt and takes the Warden with him (2002)
Captain Mal Reynolds, naked on a rock: from the opening of Firefly episode 11 ‘Trash’ https://firefly.fandom.com/wiki/Trash
Terrordogs – from Ghostbusters https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Terror_dogs_(Type_of_Creatures)
Doppleganger https://www.britannica.com/art/doppelganger
Jedi and the dark side – from Star Wars https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-101-servants-of-the-dark-side
The saga with the 20 giant cats in is Vatnsdæla saga which you can find an article about here: https://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2014/08/25/they-are-a-gruesome-lot/ here https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/vatnsdaela-saga/ and here
https://www.usask.ca/english/icelanders/applic_Vatns-Grettla.html
‘Three coins in a fountain’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Coins_in_the_Fountain_(film)
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January 1st, 2020
Episode 73 – Lifestyles of the Rich and Faithful
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
The Great Conjunction, Chamberlain and Aughra, from the Dark Crystal (1982): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083791/
Geralt, from The Witcher (book series and TV series) https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Geralt_of_Rivia
Superman, character from DC Comics: https://www.dccomics.com/characters/superman
“Panem Tomorrow, Panem Forever” From The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00F51BBV6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Farewell Angelina – Joan Baez - the earworm is yours now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcwP2ulxDdY
Graffiti from Pompeii: http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm
Thing 1 and Thing 2 - Dr Zeus: https://seuss.fandom.com/wiki/Thing_One_and_Thing_Two
Global Heathen Survey: http://www.heathenhof.com/world-wide-heathenry/
North of the Wall – from Game of Thrones https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Beyond_the_Wall
Tiny Houses, such as Tumbleweed: https://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/ and a good article here: https://www.countryliving.com/home-design/g1887/tiny-house/
Skyrim, Elder Scrolls game: https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/skyrim
Havamal: https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html
“Be Excellent to each other” from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/
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December 21st, 2019
Episode 72 – Random Reel the Three
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
Five Minutes with Coffee
A Knights Tale of High Notes
A Wild Hair Appears
Borked
Can’t Click
Don’t Stop us Now
Elephant in Clogs
Episo Espoid
Fighting for Freedom Without Trousers
Freud, Ice Cream and Lesbians
Suzanne Sings
Hybrid Scots
Kate Finds Coffee in Her Rum
Kate Sings
Marylin Manson and Sport
Sniff
Soldier Out of Tune
Supersonic Second Lines
What Number are we on Exactly?
Yaaas Queen
We’ve been doing Frithcast for three years. Seventy one regular episodes so far. You’ve been listening to a Heathen and a coffee-powered Druid chatter on about modern heathenry with a good sprinking of quotes and geekery for three years. And you, lovely listeners, are the reason that we have. So, we’d like to say thank you, in the only way that we can: to celebrate our third birthday, we’d like to present you with a very special episode. As last years random reel, we present clips of some of the funny moments that didn’t quite make it to the episodes. No shownotes this time, you’ve earned a break.
Thank you from us to you, we hope you enjoy, and carry on listening :)
Suzanne and Kate
December 1st, 2019
Episode 71 – Storytime – The One With Boopbeak in.
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
Po – Kung Fu Panda – film 2008 https://kungfupanda.fandom.com/wiki/Po
Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness – John Keats ‘Ode to Autumn’ https://poets.org/poem/autumn
Proserpina: http://www.talesbeyondbelief.com/roman-gods/proserpina.htm
“Nor glom of nit” - Going Postal by Terry Pratchett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Postal
Chekov’s gun: https://www.nownovel.com/blog/use-chekhovs-gun/
The fairies gifting Aurora before Maleficent arrives: from Sleeping Beauty https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Flora,_Fauna,_and_Merryweather
Maltese Falcon film (1941) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870/
Mcguffin: a literary device around which the plot revolves but which doesn’t do anything. See the suitcase in Pulp Fiction for a modern example https://www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/articles/what-is-a-mcguffin
That scene in John Wick (the quote is at 7:40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZBRrYEGET8
Eastenders Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYa_KfLTtM
“Curses, he missed the note” The Goon Show, series 5 episode 7 ‘China Story’ http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e17_china_story
“Always in the last place you look, like stockings” – Flemeth, DragonAge
Excalibur: the name of the sword of King Arthur: https://www.ancient.eu/Excalibur/
Glamdring – Gandalf’s sword from Lord of the Rings: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Glamdring
“Your father smells of elderberries” Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/
Smol Snek: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/snek
“Look at his little back leg going like the clappers” Round the Horne:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_the_Horne
“Hey! Listen!” Navi from The Legend of Zelda games https://zelda.gamepedia.com/Navi
Rubber chicken with a pulley in it – Monkey Island computer game: https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Rubber_Chicken_With_A_Pulley_In_The_Middle
Tea and No Tea from the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy computer game: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
Zac McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders: PC game from 1988 https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders
Chamberlain – character from The Dark Crystal (Film and TV series) https://darkcrystal.fandom.com/wiki/SkekSil
“I shall do such things, what they are yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth” King Lear, Act 2, Scene 4
“I don’t know if they grade it, but… coarse” - Sterling Archer, Archer, episode ‘Mole Hunt’ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1539157/characters/nm0168642
If you’d like to read the Ballad of Svipdag for yourself, you can find it here: https://thenorsegods.com/the-ballad-of-svipdag/
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November 15th, 2019
Episode 70 – Njals Saga part 2
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
The Sword of Damocles https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-sword-of-damocles
Hamlet’s father’s ghost https://www.shmoop.com/hamlet/ghost.html
Asterix and Obelix: https://www.asterix.com/en/portfolio/obelix/
Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar – from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere: http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/croup.htm
“Passport in the name of Emily Berkenstien” The book of Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
“Two heated towel rails” Lenny Henry, Live and Unleashed: https://youtu.be/Vd6CqB144JA?t=1371
“Good Yard” from a drunk student emailing his professor to ask for an extension: https://imgur.com/gallery/w7tqd
Nero in Star Trek (2009) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/?ref_=tt_ch
Mindhunter (2017 -2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5290382/
Game of Thrones https://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones
Jean Baptiste Emmanuelle Zorg, the 5th Element (1997( https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Element
John Wick (2014) https://john-wick.fandom.com/wiki/John_Wick_(film)
Dallas (1978 – 1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077000/
Dynasty (1981 – 1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081856/
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November 1st, 2019
Episode 69 – Njals Saga part 1
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
“Write the theme tune, sing the theme tune” from the character Dennis Waterman, Little Britain https://littlebritain.fandom.com/wiki/Dennis_Waterman
“You must watch these little points” The Goon Show, The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved). First broadcast 16th November 1964 http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e08_the_mystery_of_the_marie_celeste_solved
Suzanne totally forgot which episode the Beowulf episode was, it was episode 6. Not episode 5, which was 9 realms in 20 minutes…
Blackadder and Baldrick’s short holiday, in Dish and Dishonesty from 1986
Segway - http://uk-en.segway.com/
Isle of Lewis Chessmen – especially the Berserker piece biting on his own shield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen
George RR Martin – author of A Song of Ice and Fire, made into the TV series of Game of Thrones
Minecraft sheep: https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Sheep
Tom Bombadill: character from Lord of the Rings (cut from the film adaptations): https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_Bombadil
Luke Skywalker and Biggs Darklighter: childhood friends in the Star Wars Universe: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Biggs_Darklighter/Legends
Asterix and Obelix: https://www.asterix.com/en/portfolio/obelix/
“Running, jumping climbing trees” Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill
Being a lumberjack – The Lumberjack Song from Monty Python, British Comedy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRdur8GLBM
TLC, No Scrubs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrLequ6dUdM
“Possibly Brain, but where are we going to get…?” Pinky and the Brain: https://pinkyandthebrain.fandom.com/wiki/Are_You_Pondering_What_I%27m_Pondering%3F
The Importance of Being Earnest – the tea party scene between Cecily and Gwendoline https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/earnest/section4/
HBO’s Rome: Attia and Sevillia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-Jb_uZSPc
Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar – from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere: http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/croup.htm
If you’d like to look at the saga before our part II, head here: https://www.gradesaver.com/njals-saga
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October 15th, 2019
Episode 68 – Come Kif! Following St Ansgar
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
Tessa Thompson: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1935086/
“Hola Commander, have a muffin.” Strike Commander: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_Commander
“If you’re looking for adventure, I bet my shinies will tempt you.” Everquest II
“Robust ...precise...” The Sommelier Scene from John Wick II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUpfO4x8Ch8
Status Quo – famous for using three main chords in their songs: http://www.statusquo.co.uk/
Zapp Brannigan - from Futurarma: https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Zapp_Brannigan
Ace Rimmer – from Red Dwarf:http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/a/acerimmr.htm
Ab Urbe Condita – “From the founding of the city”
“Abbot says ‘Come Home’” a paraphrase of ‘Gerda says come home’ one of the number of rune sticks found in Bergen: http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/40/v40i02p049-058.pdf
Dread Pirate Roberts – from The Princess Bride: https://princessbride.fandom.com/wiki/Dread_Pirate_Roberts
London Vatican Embassy https://www.visahq.co.uk/vatican/embassy/united-kingdom/
A bit Pete Tong – Cockney Rhyming Slang for ‘a bit wrong’
“A passport in the name of Emily Berkenstein” From Red Dwarf: https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/Mimas
An English translation of the Vita Anskari is available here: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/anskar.asp
If you look at other sources for Ansgar, contrast them with this one: http://www.oodegr.com/english/biographies/arxaioi/Ansgar_Hamburg.htm
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September 15th, 2019
Episode 66 – That’s really Wyrd
Big love and shout out to Lisa Barnett who suggested the topic for this episode
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
Sew.. a deer, a female deer – parpahrased from Do, Re, Mi, The Sound of Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RW3nDRmu6k
Beowulf – Seamus Heaney performed by the Holdfast Theatre Company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqhqSKXahCI
Cork version of Beowulf. The audio first part is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-1-gNeoCU8P7oAY5FaXd5uXviLrsPJV9/view and there’s more here: https://boyowulf.home.blog/2019/03/20/boyo-wulf-ll-1-19/
The Cowboy Havamal – Prof Jackson Crawford: https://jacksonwcrawford.com/the-cowboy-havamal/
“On the raggedy edge, don’t push me...” Capt. Mal Reynolds. Serenity (2005) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Serenity_(film)
“Execute episode 66.” paraphrased from The Emperor, Star Wars: Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Rosecarntz and Guilderstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rosencrantz-Guildenstern-Are-Dead-Stoppard/dp/0802126219
The Merchant of Venice: more notably the Diane Duane version in which Shylock is awarded a pound of flesh and decides that the pound he wants is Antonio’s heart...
Bablyon 5 episode: A View from the Gallery (Season 5, episode 4, 1998) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0517621/
Dree your Wyrd: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dree_one%27s_weird
The Wall and Wildlings – from the books series ‘Song of Ice and Fire’, GRR Martin. https://www.waterstones.com/category/science-fiction-fantasy-horror/fantasy/a-game-of-thrones
Stoicism – short video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhn1Fe8cT0Q
“They know their doom but not the hour” The Emperor Uriel Septim in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Emperor_Uriel_Septim
Galadriel. Lord of the Rings– “the mirror shows that which was, that which is and that which has not yet come to pass.”
The Wanderer – https://anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/the-wanderer/
Fafnismal – “to go against fate is to row against a fierce wind”
Dante’s Inferno: http://www.worldofdante.org/inferno1.html
Lindsay Ellis (as Loose Canon) discussion of Hades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmcV90cya1Y
The Norns and the Parkai: https://www.indeuropean.com/religion/gods/fate-goddess
Njal’s Saga – that loom from chapter 156: http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/darra.htm
Valkerie in Thor Ragnarok https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Valkyrie
T-Rex on the Plain! A clumsy way for the GM of a roleplaying game to force the players back onto the storyline. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/KillerGameMaster
Star Trek The Next Generation: Cause and Effect (Season 5, episode 18)
Time Loops and Doctor Who: particularly ‘Heaven Sent’ (series 9, episode 11) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Sent_(Doctor_Who)
Chronology Protection Conjecture- Stephen Hawking: there’s a Scientific American article here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-chronology-protection/
“The cake is a lie” from the game ‘Portal’ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-cake-is-a-lie
Nihilism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ajv-RrQs4o
Abnigation – from the Divergent series: https://divergent.fandom.com/wiki/Abnegation
“Fear profits man nothing.” The 13th Warrior (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120657/
A magicians choice, or equivocation https://secrets-explained.com/basic-techniques/magician-s-choice
Fate and free will in Frank Herbert’s Dune: https://www.shmoop.com/dune/fate-free-will-theme.html
Dr Who and Fixed Points in Time:https://doctorwhowatch.com/2014/10/13/fixed-points-time-doctor/
Terminator Timeline(s): https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/The_Terminator_timeline
Professor KJ Wanner: https://wmich.edu/religion/directory/wanner (mentioned in: https://study.com/academy/lesson/wyrd-in-beowulf.html)
Theodicy: the problem of evil in monoetheism: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/student-zone/philosophy-of-religion/the-problem-of-evil/theodicies
Fate in Greek tragedy – Hamartia: https://www.britannica.com/art/hamartia
Star Trek Voyager: The Year of Hell https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709014/
The Butterfly Effect: https://interestingengineering.com/what-exactly-is-the-butterfly-effect
Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Trials and Tribble-ations (Based on Original Series ‘The Trouble with Tribbles’) https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Trials_and_Tribble-ations_(episode)
The Pistol Star https://www.constellation-guide.com/pistol-star/
The Great Annihalator (not the biggest black hole in the galaxy for some reason…) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Annihilator
“Why is it that cats have the majority on flaps? Take your cat and your flap, and...” Lenny Henry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXkxXDT1-F8
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