Viking Pagan Gods in Britain

The Norse and Danish invaders - commonly called Vikings - who occupied Britain in the ninth and tenth centuries, brought with them their own pagan gods. Odin, Thor, Tyr, Loki and Freya left their trace on the British landscape, in the form of scenes from their mythology carved on stone slabs, and Viking paganism has a further considerable legacy of material evidence in richly furnished graves, especially on the Isle of Man.

A lecture by Ronald Hutton recorded on 8 March 2023 at David Game College, London

The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:

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Small correction: the Andalucian native Antonio Banderas portrayed the medieval scholar ibn Fadlan.

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The movie, "The 13th Warrior" was an adaption of an early work by Michael Crichton, the originator of the "Jurassic Park" film franchise. While still a medical student at Harvard, Critchton became intrigued with Viking Age archeology. According to rumor, a fellow student challenged Crieghton to create a Viking tale in the form of a scholarly paper or monograph, complete with footnotes and a bibliography citing real and imaginary sources. What he came up with was a blending of the authentic but fragmentary account of Ibn Fadlan and the "Beowulf" epic. Crichton's literary joke was later expanded and published as a novel titled "The Eaters of the Dead".

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