Ragman’s Harbour

06 Of snarks and grumpkins

In this episode, your hosts take you on a cruise to discover real world people-like creatures and animalistic people that are definitely real (or were!) that parallel characters and, hmm, stories from ASOIAF/ Game of Thrones.
We don't mention her because we're horrible people, but you know this episode is in honour of Old Nan <3
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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:
“Folktrons väsen” - Tora Wall
“Nordiska väsen”- Johan Egerkrans
“Skogsrået, näcken och Djävulen: Erotiska naturväsen och demonisk sexualitet i 1600- och 1700-talens Sverige” - Mikael Häll
“Queer Perspectives on Erotic Human-Supernatural Encounters in Finland-Swedish Folk Legends” - Catarina Harjunen
“Gruvrået” - När man talar om trollen
“Skogsrået” - När man talar om trollen
“Varulven” - När man talar om trollen
 
* Virginie's sources:
Meneux d’loups : 
https://www.persee.fr/doc/mar_0758-4431_2002_num_30_1_1768
 
Dones d’aigua : https://www.catalunyamagrada.cat/llocs/dona-daigua-misteriosa-llegenda-del-montseny_41160102.html 
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigua#Enlla%C3%A7os_externs 
 
Lamiak :
file:///C:/Users/virsi/Downloads/Dialnet-LamiasYSirenasATravesDeLaSimbologia-308255.pdf

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

04 Cats of the Harbour and beyond

In episode four of the podcast we talk all about the cats of ASOIAF and our world. What function has cats had in our world historically, and how does that parallel ASOIAF? Are there cats in mythology and religion (in ASOIAF and irl)? Is Ser Pounce the true hero of the story? Join us on a feline trip through ASOIAF and history!
 
Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!
 
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Sources and resources
Lo:
“Medieval Pets” - Kathleen Walker-Meikle
“Människan och faunan: Etnobiologi i Sverige” - Håkan Tunón
“Kattens historia: Sverige speglat i kattens öga” - Gunnar Broberg
"Freyja predicted the future"- Historiska museet
"Nedslag i nordisk mytologi, del 11: Freja" - Malin Kim
“Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings, ca. 750‐1050” - Jacob Bell
“The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia.” - Lee Colwill in Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, eds. Alicia Spencer-Hall & Blake Gutt.
 
Virginie:
"L'homme et le chat, un dialogue immémorial"- Radio France
"Chat" - Au Blason Des Armoiries
"Bestiaries" - Michel Pastoureau
"Médiéval bestiaries" - Michel Pastoureau
"Black: History of a colour" - Michel Pastoureau
"Les Fleurs du Mal" - Charles Baudelair
"Le Roman de Renart"
"Le Chat" - Guillaume Apollinaire

03 What’s in a name?

Today on the 26th of December, the Titan of Braavos brings you a gift: episode 3 of Ragman's Harbour!
In our third episode, we discuss naming conventions in ASOIAF and our real world. How did last names come to be a thing in our world, and how does that parallel last names in ASOIAF? Why are there so many Aegons in ASOIAF history, as well as many Louis and Gustavs in French and Swedish history? (Spoiler: it has to do with one of Virginie's favourite words)
We also discuss the effects of colonisation and slavery on the naming of people, both in ASOIAF and our own world. So get ready to learn all about names and what they say about norms and structures in society!
 
Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!
 
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Sources and resources
Lo:
“Efternamn i Sverige” - Institutet för språk och folkminnen 
“Historik om personnamn i Sverige” - Institutet för språk och folkminnen
“De naturliga efternamnen” Statistikmyndigheten SCB
“Svenska förnamn genom historien - från Eskil till Estelle” - Åke Steinwall 
“Namnskick i forna tider” - Svenska Heraldiska föreningen
“‘De kunde ju tro man var en finnpajsare’” - Karin Skoglund 
“Om Tornedalens namnskick i äldre tid” - Erik Kouksu 
“Svenska kyrkan och det samiska namnskicket: Övergripande perspektiv” - Marit Frändén 
“‘Att blotta vem jag är’ - Släktnamnsskick och släktnamnsbyten hos samer i Sverige 1920–2009” - Marit Frändén 
“Namn i kyrkböckerna” - Sametinget 
“The Multiple Burdens of Foreign-Named Men—Evidence from a Field Experiment on Gendered Ethnic Hiring Discrimination in Sweden” - Moa Bursell. 
 
Virginie:
"Famille et pouvoir dans le monde Franc" (chapitre VI) - Régine Le Jan
"Noms de famille et noms de terre dans la noblesse française à l’époque moderne" - Élie Haddad
"Du son à la scription, la trace indélébile du nom: À propos d’une blessure héritée de l’esclavage aux Antilles-Guyane" - Philippe Chanson

02 Of Scandals and Bastards

In our second episode, we dive into a variety of sex scandals and issues of inheritance, from our own world and ASOIAF. As we go along, we discuss what happens when royals have sex out of wedlock, but also what rights bastards have in various historical and cultural contexts. And much more.
We want to give a brief apology for the audio quality in this episode. We had some issues when recording, that has since been identified and won't be a problem in future episodes. This is also the reason why this episode took a bit longer to come out. Thank you LittleWolfBird for helping us with audio engineering and making all sound as good as possible!
 
Thank you also to  Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com.
 
You can contact us at:
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Sources and resources
Lo:
P3 Historia: Cecilia Vasa - Sveriges mesta skandalprinsessa
P3 Historia: Erik XIV - Intriger, brodermord och skandalös kärlek
P3 Historia: Karin Månsdotter - pigan som blev drottning av Sverige
“Maidens, maidenheads, and the patriarchy - Virginity norms in ASOIAF” - Lo the Lynx
 “Kungar, sex och skandaler - en studie av skvaller och journalistik” Mia-Marie Hammerlin & Lars-Eric Jönsson
“A Brief Trans History” - Lo the Lynx
“The queer stories of Fire and Blood - Lo the Lynx
P3 Historia: Axel von Fersen - kärleksaffärer, revolutioner och en vrålande lynchmobb
 
Virginie:
"Bâtard et fils a putain : du titre à l’insulte" - Dominique Lagorgette
Épisode 16 - Marie-Lise et les bâtards de princes • PM (passionmedievistes.fr)
Guillaume le Conquérant, le bâtard de Normandie, Paris, Belin 2014 | Gilduin Davy - Academia.edu
Bâtards et bâtardises dans l’Europe médiévale et moderne - La perception des bâtards au xve siècle - Presses universitaires de Rennes (openedition.org)
Jean de Bourgogne batard de Jean sans Peur | MAILLARD-LUYPAERT MONIQUE - Academia.edu
« Humbert le Bâtard : un seigneur itinérant au service de son prince », dans L'itinérance des seigneurs, actes du Colloque international, éd. A. Paravicini Bagliani, E. Pibiri, D. Reynard, Lausanne, 2003, p. 5-25 (CLHM, 34). | Guido Castelnuovo - Academia.edu
Éric Bousmar, Alain Marchandisse, Christophe Masson et Bertrand Schnerb éd., La Bâtardise et l’exercice du pouvoir en Europe du xiiie au début du xive siècle (openedition.org)
Le siège de Toul, en 1420, sous l'épiscopat de Henri de Ville : fragments historiques / par Charles Hequet,... | Gallica (bnf.fr)

01 The Red Wedding and Other Bloodbaths

In our first episode, we thought we'd introduce the podcast project then explore some "light and fun" real life parallels to one of ASOIAF's most well known events. 
Sources and resources:
From Lo:  https://www.so-rummet.se/artikelserier/sturarna-och-bakgrunden-till-stockholms-blodbadhttps://www.so-rummet.se/fakta-artiklar/kalmarunionens-upplosning-gustav-vasa-tar-makten-i-sverige#https://stockholmskallan.stockholm.se/teman/stockholmshandelser/stockholms-blodbad-1520/https://popularhistoria.se/sveriges-historia/stockholms-blodbadhttps://www.so-rummet.se/aret-runt/sten-sture-den-yngres-dod (The painting is of Sten Sture den Yngre dying as his men is trying to get him to Stockholm)Virginie adds: Johannes V. Jensen's Kongens Fald (the Fall of the King), elected best Danish novel of the 20thC, that covers this period of history. From Virginie:Tuer et Mourir au Nom de Dieu : a fantastic podcast series about the St Barthélémie season with many prominent historians, particularly Jérémie Foa -on whom I largely base my blurbJérémie Foa's Tous ceux qui tombent book on the eventJérémie Foa's BD (comic book) on the event, and on how the movie La Reine Margot is not quite accurate
La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) movie. Not really historically accurate, but it's with Isabelle Adjani