Survive the Jive Podcast

How did the Northwest Germanic language split into North and West Germanic languages? How did these language families remain mutually intelligible? What were the differences between them? What foreign cultures influenced the language and culture of the Germanic folk? These are the sorts of answers I sought in this Jive Talk with the talented young philologist, Konrad Rosenberg. 
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A preprint for a new large study by Silva et al titled "Genomic history and selection in Roman and early medieval Britain” uses new data with 1039 ancient samples and new methods to confirm what previous studies have found about our island history. Namely that the Romans didn’t affect us much but the Anglo-Saxons did. There are also some surprising findings in there..

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The Indo-European barrow aka kurgan aka burial mound is a funerary monument tradition that lasted about 6000 years and spread with the Proto-Indo-European Yamnaya from Eastern Europe as far as China to the East, the Atlantic to the West and Siberia to the North. This monument is not only the proof of our greatness but is also the sacred centre of the Heathen religion which links this middle Earth to the Heavens and the underworld. This is a guest podcast episode taken from Radio North Sea International on the Hearthfire Radio Network. 

Ending music Sanguine Fire by Elegiac is used with permission from the artist.

Professor Francis Young is an expert in Baltic paganism and is one of the foremost English speaking scholars of the subject. Here he explains the late medieval and early modern written sources for pagan practices in Lithuania and Latvia. We discuss the Baltic gods like Žemyna and Perkunas, as well as fairies, rituals and traditions of the Balts. 

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What did Viking hairstyles really look like? Did all Vikings have beards? Was long hair a mark of aristocracy among the Germanic tribes? In this stream I will talk about some of these misconceptions.Watch the live stream with the images I am describing on JIVE TALK YouTube channel. 

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