Ragman’s Harbour

Ep 13 "Oh the banners!": of sigils and heraldry

In this episode, your hosts take you on a journey to medieval and not so medieval Europe to explore the rich world of heraldry to compare it to its Westeros counterpart: sigils. 
Who gets to have a coat of arms? How to pick your doodle? What are the rules? Are imaginary coat of arms a new thing?
We discovered so much we didn't know about, it was an actual delight to learn so much -and hopefully you enjoy learning with us. It's not just pretty images, but it is *also* pretty images. And identity. 
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Sources: 
Virginie:
- Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge : "héraldique", article par Michel Pastoureau
-         http://chroniques.bnf.fr/archives/sept2002/numero_courant/manifestations/pastoureau_inter.htm
- Blasonner en latin (xiie-xvie siècle) - Michel Pastoureau https://books.openedition.org/psorbonne/21154?lang=fr
https://journals.openedition.org/extremeorient/110
https://books.openedition.org/pufr/16462?lang=fr
Les Armoiries de Paris - Marc DECLERCK
Le Blason des Temps Nouveau - Catalogue de l’exposition
Armorial de la ville de Paris
https://essentiels.bnf.fr/fr/image/ba845ff7-2c3b-4a38-b1dd-02cfefe6a771-armorial-la-table-ronde-1
http://quetedugraal.over-blog.com/blasons-des-chevaliers-de-la-table-ronde/
https://herald-dick-magazine.blogspot.com/2015/09/la-quete-du-graal-dans-les-manuscrits.html?m=1
 
Lo:
 https://varumarkesmanual.uppsala.se/tillampningar/uppsalas-stadsvapen/
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholms_stadsvapen 
“Heraldiken i Sverige” - Magnus Bäckmark & Jesper Wasling
 

12 And the dragons danced (HotD season 2 discussion w/Bidonica)

In this episode we discuss season 2 of House of the Dragon with a special guest, Bidonica! Together we talk about art in ASOIAF/HotD compared to the history of art in our world, (trans)gender politics in HotD and our world, language and power, class politics, and more! 
And also why Italian fan artists draw Sansa with dark hair... 
 
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Where to find Bidonica:
https://x.com/bidonica1
https://bidonicart.tumblr.com/
https://bidonica.tumblr.com/
 
Art in HotD tag: https://bidonica.tumblr.com/tagged/art%20in%20hotd
Art in Westeros: https://bidonica.tumblr.com/tagged/art%20in%20westeros 
 
Bidonica's references:
Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa, Bompiani 1980 
Pentiment (videogame) 
Proserpine (artwork by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Ellen Terry as Lady MacBeth (artwork by John Singer Sargent)
Dance (artwork by Henri Matisse)
Erotic revelry - Athenian Red Figure column krater
 
Lo's references:
“Missbrukad kvinnokraft” - Ellen Key
“Fenixelden: Drottning Kristina som alkemist” by Susanna Åkerman
”A brief trans history” - Lo
“Writing migration through the body” by Emma Bond
“The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia” by Lee Colwil 
“Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings ca. 750-1050” by Jacob Bell
“Fa'afafine, fakaleitī, fakafifine — understanding the Pacific's alternative gender expressions” by Alan Weedon
“What does “Two-Spirit” Mean?” - by Geo Neptune
 
Virginie's references:
Leitis in Waiting (documentary)
Kumo Hina (documentary). And a shorter clip from the documentary, explaining what māhū is.
Ragman's Harbour episode 2 "Of Scandals and bastards" (references for all discussions about bastards can be found there!)
 
Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

11 Mini-episode: tv show recommendations

Are you feeling bereft after season 2 of HotD? Not sure what to do with your free time? We are here for you! In this mini-episode, we provide tv show recommendations to fill the void that HotD might have left in your life.
 
Lo's recommendations:
SKAM
Young Royals
Ragnarok 
 
Virginie's recommendations: 
Polar Park
Icon of French Cinema
Peepoodo and the Super Fuck Friends
 
Unplanned bonus chat about:
Jordskott
Maria Wern
Nói albinói (Icelandic movie)
 
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10 Mini-episode: book recommendations!

During this HotD season, we thought both our dear listeners and ourselves could use a break from just talking about the dragon show. So here is the second of three mini-episode where we recommend stuff to you all! In this episode we talk books!
 
Lo’s books & authors:
Stöld (Stolen) - Ann-Helén Laestadius (Sápmi/Sweden)
Kallocain - Karin Boye (Sweden)
Muminböckerna (The Moomin Books) - Tove Jansson (Finland)
Virginie’s books & authors:
La Jument Verte (the Green Mare) by Marcel Aymé (France)
Métaphysique des Tubes (the character of rain) by Amélie Nothomb (Belgium)
Daniel Pennac’s “Malaussène Saga” (<- unofficial name): The Scapegoat, The Fairy Gunmother, Write to Kill, Monsieur Malaussène, Passion Fruit (France)
Svend Åge Madsen’s At Fortælle Menneskene (Narrating the People) and Tugt og Utugt i Mellemtiden (Virtue and Vice in the Middle Time) (Denmark, in Danish)
 
Unplanned bonus chat about:
Lo: Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking) by Astrid Lindgren (Sweden). 
Ronja Rövardotter (Ronia, the Robber’s daughter) by Astrid Lindgren (Sweden).
And other assorted books by Astrid Lindgren. 
 
Virginie: Astérix by Goscinny & Uderzo (France).
Tintin by Hergé (Belgium).
Ps: the “twelve things to do of Astérix” is actually called “the Twelve Tasks of Astérix” and the task where they have to get a permit (A38) is called "The Place that sends you mad"
 
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BONUS EPISODE: The Silent Harbour outtake (HotD S2E3)

The Ragman's Harbour visited The Silent Sisters to chat about House of the Dragon season 2 episode 3! We had so much to say that not everything could fit in the podcast episode, so here is an outtake just for our listeners. Join us as we discuss how the name Ulf comes from the Swedish/Norse world "ulv", meaning "wolf", the history of that word and other taboo words, and the history of languages in general.
And of course, go listen to the whole episode with The Silent Sisters!
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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 (remixed for this episode by LittleWolfBird)!

09 Mini-episode: Movie recommendations!

During this HOT HotD season, we thought both our dear listeners and ourselves could use a break from just talking about the dragon show. So here is the first of three mini-episode where we recommend stuff to you all! In this episode we talk movies!
 
Lo talked about, in chronological order:
The Millenium movies, especially Män som hatar kvinnor/The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - by Niels Arden Oplev & Daniel Alfredson (the movie with a journalist and hacker trying to solve the 40 year old mystery of a missing girl, while also delving into social inequality in Sweden)
Fucking Åmål/Show Me Love - by Lukas Moodysson (90s movie about two teenage girls falling in love in the small town Åmål) 
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu/Portrait of a Lady on Fire- by Céline Sciamma (the sapphic love story between a painter and a lady of the gentry in 18th century France. Gay and sad.) 
 
Virginie talked about, in chronological order:
La vie est un long fleuve tranquille -by Etienne Chatilliez (the movie with switched babies that’s all about making fun of rich and catholic people because we think class humour is the best)
Les Visiteurs -by Jean-Marie Poiré (the medievalist movie that’s absolutely not historically accurate but that we love to loathe -or just love- and makes fun of rich people because class humour is really our thing)
La cité de la peur (le film des Nuls) by Alain Berberian (the movie that made me laugh when explaining its plot because the words “serial killer” are a joke in it but also, there’s a serial killer)
Les trois frères -by Didier Bourdon & Bernard Campan (the movie that’s about three brothers who didn’t know they’re brothers, who find out when their biological mother dies and leaves them a supposedly large heirloom. It of course makes fun of rich people but not only that! In a cult scene, you may discover we had the Wheel of Fortune in France. You may also discover how… dangerous it is to drive while high on ecstasy. And so much more)
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08 Of Blood and fire (HotD season 1 discussion w/ Obie)

In this episode we welcome our first guest, Obie, to discuss season 1 of House of the Dragon ahead of the season 2 premiere. 
Together we recap season 1 and discuss how it works as an adaptation of Fire & Blood. We also discuss reproductive rights in Sweden, France, and Aruba, a queen who was a king, and the real life Aegon the Conqueror (but Frankish).
Join us in the HotD hype!
 
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Sources and resources:
“Missbrukad kvinnokraft” - Ellen Key
“Kvinnans villkorliga frigivning” - Eva Moberg
“Elise "Ottar" Ottesen-Jensen”-RFSU
Sveriges sexigaste 80-åring!- RFSU (excerpt of interview with Ottar)
“Fenixelden: Drottning Kristina som alkemist.” - Susanna Åkerman
“Kroppar sedda utifrån cripteori.” - Renita Sörensdotter (in the anthology “Kroppsfunktion. En antologi”, edited by Frida Sandström)
Disability, gender, and sexuality in ASOIAF – Lo the Lynx
“Hodor - a study of disability and sexuality” - Lo the Lynx
 

07 Of Grumpkins and Snarks

In this episode, your hosts take you on a second cruise through folklore and chivalric romance to discover more real world people-like creatures and humanish people that are just as real as national borders that parallel characters (or not) from ASOIAF/ Game of Thrones.
We still don't mention her because we're horrible people, but you know this episode is in honour of Old Nan, our queen of love and stories <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:
“The Flying Noaidi of the North: Sámi Tradition Reflected in the Figure Loki Laufeyjarson in Old Norse Mythology” - Triin Laidoner“Folktrons väsen” - Tora Wallhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7lkzJuDTws&ab_channel=Biblibiblioteken “Jättar” - När man talar om trollen“Trollen i myt och folktro” - När man talar om trollen“Bortbytingar och bergtagna” - När man talar om trollenhttps://kulturminnet.wordpress.com/2021/10/29/nordisk-folktro-del-36-bergtagning/ 
*Virginie's sources:
Mélusine :- biblio : https://biblioweb.hypotheses.org/25001- “Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge imaginaire - le médiévalisme, hier et aujourd’hui” sous la direction de : Anne Besson, William Blanc et Vincent Ferré- Structure des légendes mélusinniennes : https://www.persee.fr/doc/ahess_0395-2649_1978_num_33_2_293927- Le beau et le laid : https://books.openedition.org/pup/4057
Les lavandières de la nuit:
- Musée : https://www.mbaq.fr/fr/nos-collections/peintures-d-inspiration-bretonne/yan-dargent-les-lavandieres-de-la-nuit-315.html- Le pouvoir et la foi au Moyen Âge : https://books.openedition.org/pur/141442?lang=fr

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