263. Viking Greenland: Erik The Red & Horny Zombies (Ep 1)

Hello and welcome to a brand new series of Empire. Now, as we hinted in the last episode, this is the first mini series in our collection on the history of the places on President Trump's shopping list. And so we're starting with Greenland. We're looking at the different waves of colonization of Greenland from Vikings to American airbases.

So look, there is history in them there hills. In this episode though, we're going to go all the way back to the 10th century and we are going to ask how did the Vikings actually get to Greenland to begin with? And we are joined by Viking expert Eleanor Baraclough to explain We should give a bit of Eleanor's remarkable biography, which is contained in her books. She describes herself as someone who's pursued her research into the ice flows of the far north and west under the midnight sun with a caribou hunter.

I love that. And on the way, she writes, I've been knighted with a walrus penis bone. Now that has to be the first time we've had a walrus penis bone on this. podcast uh in the Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society. And we need to know a bit more about that before we get any further.

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