Thursday Feb 13, 2025

16- Make Westeros Great Again --political recuperation of medievalism

We take you on a trip to discover how fascists in our world and Westeros use what they like in the Middle Ages, pick and choose and lump it all together and bam! have lovely (or not) symbols to show and things to say to justify their hatred and actions. We mostly only look at our world, and how Vikings and the Crusades are used, and look at what GRRM uses and doesn't use.

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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!

Resources:

Lo:

Expo (in general) but specifically:

https://expo.se/lar-dig-mer/symbollexikon/

https://expo.se/nyhet/soldiers-odin-blev-balder-cruisers-demonstrerar-med-nazister/

https://expo.se/nyhet/soldiers-odin-bakom-fasaden-rasism-och-valdsromantik/

https://expo.se/lar-dig-mer/wiki/nordiska-motstandsrorelsen-nmr/

“Embodying ‘the Nordic race’: imaginaries of Viking heritage in the online communications of the Nordic Resistance Movement” - Christoffer Kølveraa