In this second of two episodes on Vikings, Aaron, Robert, and Daniel discuss the horrors of Wagner; debate which composer would be a beast on social media; and who, among philosophers, is most like a child who can’t wait to tell you dinosaur facts. The gang then chats about tabletop roleplaying and Stephen McNallen. 

Music by Daniel Griggs.

Reading list:

• • Who Owns the Vikings? Pagans, Neo-Nazis and Advertisers Tussle Over Symbols,” New York Times, March 17, 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/world/europe/vikings-sweden-paganism-neonazis.html 

• "Articles of Faith": American Heathenry and Cultural Appropriation

• “The Viking Age as a Model of Diversity”
• https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/qanon-shaman-maga-capitol-riot-rune-pagan-imagery-tattoo-1111344/ 
• No Nazis in Valhalla: Understanding the Use (and Misuse) of Nordic Cultural Markers in Third Reich Era Germany: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1113&context=irj 
• White Supremacists Have Weaponized an Imaginary Viking Past. It's Time to Reclaim the Real History: https://time.com/5569399/viking-history-white-nationalists/ 
• Vikings were never the pure-bred master race white supremacists like to portray: https://theconversation.com/vikings-were-never-the-pure-bred-master-race-white-supremacists-like-to-portray-84455 
• What To Do When Racists Try To Hijack Your Religion: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/asatru-heathenry-racism/543864/ 
• White Supremacy’s Old Gods: https://politicalresearch.org/2018/02/01/white-supremacys-old-gods-the-far-right-and-neopaganism 
• Who was in Harold Bluetooth’s army? Strontium isotope investigation of the cemetery at the Viking Age fortress at Trelleborg, Denmark: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/EC869F4BE5A4B8C6F5125A1071687549/S0003598X00067880a.pdf/who-was-in-harold-bluetooths-army-strontium-isotope-investigation-of-the-cemetery-at-the-viking-age-fortress-at-trelleborg-denmark.pdf
• World's largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren't all Scandinavian: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/691197 
• The Varangian Guard: Why Did Vikings Fight For The Byzantine Empire?: https://www.historyextra.com/period/viking/varangian-guard-byzantine-empire-kievan-rus-vikings-basil-ii-vladimir-great/ 
• The Norse Mythology Blog | norsemyth.org: "Articles of Faith": American Heathenry and Cultural Appropriation: https://www.norsemyth.org/2021/09/articles-of-faith-american-heathenry.html 
• The Viking Age as a Model of Diversity: https://wildhunt.org/2021/11/column-the-viking-age-as-a-model-of-diversity.html
• Viking Private Military Contractors (In Space): Anti-Woman Mercenary Fighting Force Or One Man’s Paper Tiger?: https://www.antihate.ca/viking_private_military_contractors_space_anti_woman_mercenary_fighting_force_one_man_paper_tiger 
• White Supremacy’s Old Gods: https://politicalresearch.org/2018/02/01/white-supremacys-old-gods-the-far-right-and-neopaganism 
• The CPAC stage was shaped like the Othala rune…which is what?: https://forward.com/culture/465017/the-cpac-stage-was-shaped-like-the-othala-runewhich-is-what/ 
• C. G. Jung – Essay on Wotan [w. Nietzsche]: http://www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/essay-on-wotan-w-nietzsche-c-g-jung/ 
• Asatru’s Racist Missionary: Stephen McNallen, Defend Europe, and the Weaponization of Folkish Heathery: https://godsandradicals.org/2017/09/14/asatrus-racist-missionary-stephen-mcnallen-defend-europe-and-the-weaponization-of-folkish-heathery/