VIKINGS: Exploding the Myth - Dr Cat Jarman

Time Team Teatime 24: Norse expert Cat Jarman shares fascinating insights into the Viking world. Discover a rich and complex seafaring history that goes beyond the usual raider associations to encompass a sophisticated boatbuilding industry, high culture and trade links spanning the globe.
Dr Jarman sheds light on the role that women played in Viking society and also gives us a preview of her upcoming book, River Kings, due to publish early next year.
Who were the very first Europeans to visit America? What on earth is hnefatafl? Why does the difference between radio-carbon dating fish and sheep help us in understanding the Vikings? Let's find out!
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Cat's upcoming book, River Kings: www.waterstones.com/book/rive...

[@mikejhorn]

Great Talk! I really enjoy Dr. Jarman's talks. Her students are fortunate indeed. I do have to complain about the horrible sound quality! One of the many negative results of the COVID pandemic is the overreliance on Zoom. Still, an effort could have been made with Dr. Jarman's audio before recording this interview: perhaps, suggesting or providing her with a better microphone rather than relying on her computer microphone. Many of the recent Time Team audios have been much poorer than the original pre-Zoom episodes.

[@schoolingdiana9086]

Before I ever discovered Time Team years ago, I’d heard there was a joke about Yorkshire that the Vikings took all the pretty women back with them. When I was studying Old Norse/OE, I read a piece where the Romano-British men were complaining how the Viking men were luring their women with sinful and ungodly things such as combing their hair, cleaning their teeth, and changing their clothes once a day. Tim, thank you for including language studies in several of the Time Team episodes. 80% of a culture is in the language. My fav is still Matt and Phil hurling insults to earn a beer!

[@SarahGoldspink]

Great talk, love this up to date look at what you know about Vikings today and def. looking forward to the book and tracing the bead. and totes agree with Cat, please can you look at bringing Time Team back to our homes. Cheers & love me some tea time with Time Team!

[@davidprice118]

We need Time Team in the Forest of Dean urgently. A fantastic area between two great rivers the Severn and the Wye, which surely the Vikings would have loved. Brilliant unexcavated castles and camps of many ages, with great stories to tell (e.g Newnham). Time Team could do so much good here.

[@KernowekTim]

100% David.

[@KernowekTim]

I'm a metal detectorist of the 1980's through until now. I have several finds, but those I treasure (npi) most are artefacts. A Viking ship nail would have me in raptures of pleasure. IA coins, Med' hammered coins are all well and good; they are, but a Viking ship's nail, a fragment of a bronze age awl or a dented Roman lead sling-shot in the hand are deep history, for me.

[@mikebarrow157]

Loved that favoured TT site question at the end of prog!

[@larissas7750]

I'm loving this #BestofTeatime that I missed!

[@SsspraakForsskkarring]

Veldig bra! Godt informerte,begge to😃

[@babblefromthebubble4978]

Sadly, until Sweden finally opens up it's real history to the world, we're not going to get our ancestors or full creation stories back. I worked with indigenous elders for 26 years after the British army and after a stay with the Hopi in the Arizona desert, they sent me on a mission to reinvestigate what was left from the Nordic, Norn (Norr ön, Northern Isles) and Gaelic oral traditions after "The Great Heathen Army" settled.It was once wider discussed that our clan Donald rooted into the House of Ivar and that the House of Ivar was Ivar benlös's dynasty (Ragnar Lodbroks son, but the ruling narratives of the kings that came out on top have committed to writing out certain bloodlines for certain reasons relating to Sweden's claims to it's own throne. There is much to tell and after living here for 23 years, actually at the heart of the covered up nine worlds of Oden's generation, I can safely say (aong a great many other things) that Ragnarök was the erruption of supervolcano Krakatoa in 536 AD, causing massive physical damage raining down and then ten years of crop failure (Fimbulvvinter) here in the breadbasket of the ancient (well, 4600 yrs old) Göte rike, nowadays known as Västra Götaland. I know where the drinking hall of Valhall stood (Church on it's footprint today, but with a 500's carved stone cemented into the outer wall.... I know they have Oden buried in a mound 25 minutes drive from here where he died, under one of his local binames......plus many other significant gravesites and ruins. The area was abandoned for 250 years until farmers moved back in and recleared the fields (say local archeologists honestly, but ones holding up "Svear" narrative are not to be trusted.I've been through various Northern translations of the Eddas, sorted all the scaldic poetry that reference the Asar while they were still in life, followed their adventures by satelite and on the ground for 15 years here where it happened and everything fits, even the huge amount of gold found here from just the few years of Oden's new confederacy he made up with Heimdallr. ........ and basically lots, lots more. I came out in the local newspapers in 2012 about it all, expecting a reaction, but got an eerie silence, apart from one local heritage society over the lake from where I say he's buried, claiming they have Oden buried there under a bautasten........ but that's part of the 1800s coverup as the Svear finalised the colonisation of their own people, the Göte and moved the powerbase permanently to Stockholm. Until the early 1800s, the school books still stated that Oden was the stamfader of the whole Svea Rike, then a few years later, academics invented the word "Asatro" ("Asa-BELIEF") and tried telling the world that it was an ancient religion, from an Oden CULT. It's extremely complex and sensitive for them anyway. Surviving sons of the Asa "Gods" rode south after the destruction of Ragnarök, committed genocide I hear of the Hurulerna and claimed themselves a state they named Danmark - Dan's land (one of the Asa grandkids). As the waters started clearing in the old central powerbase of Svitjord (nowadays Skaraborg), where Asgård, Midgård, Vanaheim, the original Jotunheim, Nifleheim, Svart Alfheim etc were located for approximately 50 years leading up to the disaster. By the 600's the Svear turned North again and started violently riding around, committing genocide after genocide on families that had rival claims to Oden's old territories, resulting in a final clash at the ruins of old Midgård at the Battle of Bravvalir around 750, where Ragnar Lodbrok's father, King Sigurd Hring (last of the traditionals still wanting Oden's society structure to continue once the lands and waters were clean again), fell. Ragnar Lodbrok's family clung more and more to the West coast, also claiming descendancy from Oden himself...... but three other bloodlines solidified to become what we know as the Svear. (Came from an oral contract the Sve Ge, between the House of Dan and King Frode in the 600's "I swear to give....". King Frode was recognised by the House of Dan for riding around all the scattered Northern ragtag colones, surviving on the coastlines, uniting them in some kind of common identity. In return, Frode was granted the central area of Svitjord - all the areas that were under Oden's authority when he was alive. To make matters worse, the Vatican sent in the church full force into the region after Ragnarök, which culminated in 1000AD by the marriage of Church and the first King of any kind of state, total consolidation of power and the start of 700 years of rewriting the narrative and all the usual brainwashing and threatful methodds we associate with making an indigenous population forget it's roots, ancestors and stories. This is why Snorre Sturlasson was in a hurry to travel to Västragötaland and write down the Eddas in the 1300s. Very few families were left singing the scalds to their children by then or even remembering where the famous events of their ancestors took place. Now Iceland's losing it by proclaiming "Asatro" as their national religion to replace Christianity, doing the same disservice as the newage romanticist druid movements do..... creatng yet another, new, out of context, out of place and out of time collective psychosis for the kids to untangle later....... sighs. Amazing work with Time Team anyway, the whole concept is great and should be the model for every local community to be able to take care of it's own archeology....... especially here in the most archeologically rich, yet most silent. I haven't been back to the UK since my three kids came along here, so thank you for providing such amazing ways to continue to fill in the blanks, even whilst o'er the great pond! Keep up the good work all involved. Bright blessings from the North

[@clarkclark6873]

my teacher told me to watch this

[@buddysnackit1758]

What ever happened to the DNA samples from the Repton site? Did they extract sequences?

[@jaymurphy5864]

Terrible sound quality

[@BobbiDoll]

Too bad she wasn't speaking into a microphone. I'm sure I would have enjoyed what she had to say if it wasn't so difficult to listen to her.