Frithcast Extra XL Jorvik 2017

Frithcast Extra XL Jorvik 2017

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

Day 1:

Who are we and where are we?

A week at York, at the Jorvik Viking Festival

The Walls of the City of York

Suzanne and Kate get thrown off the city walls…

The history of the city, the Roman city of Eboracum, the Anglo Saxon city of Eforwic, and the Viking city of Jorvik

That ‘wic part’ of place names

What’s here in the centre of York.

The first mention of the York Minster, on the site of the Roman Principium

Roman fortress plans and cookie cutters/the fort at Hardknot Pass, Cumbria.

The River Ouse and the River Foss converge – the geography under York

Longboats up the Ouse

Place name evidence/ street name evidence - ‘Micklegate’ - from the Old Norse ‘big street’ and Coppergate from Old Norse ‘the street of cup makers’

The archaeological dig at Coppergate – what did they find?

Runrig back gardens and farming by strips

The state of preservation at Coppergate – ‘anaerobic preservation’ of organic remains

The Jorvik Viking Centre displays and interpretations (pre 2015 floods).

Thorfast and his comb – a punne or play on words, relying on the Lincoln comb case inscription ‘Thorfast made a good comb’.

It’s the York Helmet, not the Coppergate Helmet.  My bad.

Plans for Tuesday

The introduction to your roving reporter Ood the Tiny

Day 2: starts 21:29

An early morning walk around the walls of York.  Pro tips included :)

Fencing: en garde/ lats...

Liqueur chocolates explain everything…

We Go Live! for the first time.

Our professional standards are kept in a box...

Go Live up Stonegate and York Minster

Kate gets distracted by chocolate (again)

Constantine and his great big column

City walking tour

Archaeology comes in layers, like ogres.

Ood the Tiny finds a boat his size

Evening lecture with nibbles

Specialisations in academia

Suzanne falls right into Kate’s joke...

Professor Dawn Hadley’s presentation on her research at the site of Torksey, North Lincolnshire.

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle – the entry for the year 793 and accounts of The Great Army

Soil sampling – how it works

More on Torksey

Tomorrows plans: tablet weaving.

Some more links on Torksey:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/viking-torksey-inside-the-great-armys-winter-camp.htm

The mentioned free academic paper: (45 pages long, get a cuppa first) http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/100285/10/the-winter-camp-of-the-viking-great-army-ad-872-3-torksey-lincolnshire.pdf

Day3: starts 42:08

Kate’s breakfast

Buskers and Vikings are starting to arrive

A crepe with all the chocolate…

Kate hunts cats.

Tablet Weaving with Mari Wickerts, an experimental archaeologist from Sweden

What is an experimental archaeologist exactly?

What is tablet weaving?

The spun gold in the braids at Birka

The Oseberg tablets.

Tablet woven designs

Plans for tomorrow: kedgeree day, a historical writing masterclass and a storyteller.

A link about tablet weaving: http://www.shelaghlewins.com/tablet_weaving/TW01/TW01.htm

Day4: starts 51.30

Arriving back from Peter Carrington-Porter’s ‘Life of Harald Hardrada’

Storm Doris arrives to say hi

A morning of creative writing workshop with Julian Hill – author of Shieldwall and Viking Fire

Kate reflects on Harald Hardrada, and is disappointed.

A quick discussion of Harald, Harold, William, parentage, 1066 and all that.

The Vikings at Home and Abroad Exhibition (which we did a quick tour of yesterday)

The Canute Project

Peter Carrington-Porter, storyteller: ‘Life of Harald Hardrada’ - he’s also done his own interpretation of Beowulf

Suzanne’s highlight of the week: looking forward to going to the 10th Century Traders tomorrow morning – discussion of her shopping wish list.

‘You can never have too many hammers’

Kate gets grumpy that a Viking festival doesn’t sell classical Roman stuff… a quick sideways step into Roman history.

Day5: starts 1:07:47

We’re back from York

Kate doesn’t complain about the trains.

Suzanne has more than her fair share of colds.  Her third cold of 2017.  She’s a little grumpy.

Our last day: shopping at the 10th C. Traders.  Including traders from the Baltics bringing amber, those bringing furs, metalwork, bonework, woodwork, jewellery, shoes, belt pouches, drinking horns, beads, etc…

Suzanne’s shopping haul.

A quick discussion on the possible relatives of Storm Doris

Hammers: concise and to the blunt

Our last thoughts on Jorvik and York.

Grape Lane.  Look it up.  We’re not responsible for what you find.

Don’t shoot a Scotsman from the walls of York…

We’re all vikinged out…

What’s on at the festival for families and young children: it varies from year to year, but has been things like: have a go archery and sword combat, family films, best beard competition with a children’s section, living history encampments, viking steading with animals.  Lots of events are family friendly, and free, like the March to Coppergate (typically on the Saturday afternoon). Depending on age, you may find that little ones get the most out of the last weekend of the festival, rather than the week events.

A flail into Bos Primogenus – the second rune, Uruz, and battle cattle.

How many sleeps until next year?

This is us and Ood the Tiny signing off.