05 Unnatural Histories

In this episode, your hosts take you on a cruise to discover real world creatures that are extremely real, as our friends the Orcs of Winterfell reminded us, and as attested by medieval bestiaries.

We also draw parallels with what creatures we see in the books A Song of Ice and Fire, A World of Ice and Fire as well as Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon the TV shows: dragons, unicorns, wyverns etc. and even weirwood trees!

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Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

Sources and ressources:

Lo's sources: 

“Drakspår: på jakt efter världens mest kända reptil” - Bo Eriksson

“Nordiska väsen” - Johan Egerkrans

“Folktrons väsen” - Tora Wall

“Smöjning & rotdragning” - När man talar om trollen

“Bäckahästen” - När man talar om trollen

“Sjöodjur” - När man talar om trollen

“Ormen i myt och folktro” - När man talar om trollen

Virginie's sources:

Licornes/ unicorns : Michel Pastoureau, Bestiaires du Moyen Âge

Tarasque : https://books.openedition.org/gup/399  https://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/3565

Dragons : https://journals.openedition.org/leportique/171#tocto2n4

Vouivre/ Wyvern: https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers16-08/010041931.pdf