Empire: World History · 2025-06-16 · 39 min · 7,196 words

264. Viking Greenland: Mysteries of the Lost Norse Settlers (Ep 2)

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Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnand. And me, William Durymple. And we have with us the wonderful Eleanor Baraclough, the author of Beyond the Northlands, Viking Voyages and the Old Norse sagas. And boy, did we have some sagas for you last time. We mustn't forget to...

Embers of the hand. Hidden histories of the Viking Age. Listen, all round, a a an excellent person, but also filthy, it turns out. Filthy. Have you heard the last episode?

So I got rather excited the last episode because we we had horny zombies, which is a new to this, new to this podcast. We had horny zombies, which William cannot let go of at all. But I want to pursue this. You do, of course you do.

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