Ragman’s Harbour

Welcome to this bonus episode! As mentioned in the episode, life has conspired against us managing to find time to record, so in the meanwhile here is a shorter episode with just Lo. This is also a preview of sorts of the episode we have coming up, where we will discuss what holidays exist (and should exist) in ASOIAF. In this episode Lo discusses Valborg/Walpurgis night, and end up discussing May 1st as well. And why Westeros should have a spring festival!   You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Instagram Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!   If you want to see videos of the singing promised by Lo, check out these videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmoLQ5JrfHk&list=RDcmoLQ5JrfHk&start_radio=1 (children's choir singing songs you often hear at Valborg) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTmYi8oMxjY&list=RDLTmYi8oMxjY&start_radio=1 (smaller choir singing at an actual Valborg celebration)   If you're curious about the rafting in Uppsala during Valborg, here are two videos about that: https://youtu.be/sZ2YcMrPHq0?is=GItRbhvRKSF1kyy8 (rafting in Uppsala during Valborg) https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXwLEeeo_6J/?igsh=aGtzcTg2Z2FyODFk   Other references and sources: https://www.isof.se/utforska/kunskapsbanker/lar-dig-mer-om-arets-namn-och-handelser/handelser/valborgsmassoafton  https://www.nordiskamuseet.se/utforska/hogtider/valborgsmassoafton/ https://www.so-rummet.se/fakta-artiklar/historien-bakom-valborgsfirandet-och-forsta-maj# https://www.etc.se/inrikes/aer-valborg-ett-borgerligt-paahitt

In this episode we wrap up our coverage of season one of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and discuss what we thought about the season as a whole. We're also joined by Lo's friend Vendela, who hasn't read the books, to get her perspective on the show! So if you've ever wondered what a show-only-fan might think of Dunk & Egg, tune in!   We also return to our himbo-ranking (by popular demand) and discuss important topics such as Maekar's orange cat energy and how thicc Raymun is.  Tell your friends and leave us a flurry of stars and a review wherever you listen to this episode. <3 You can also join us on Patreon and support our work + get some LOTR virgin read through reaction episodes in your ears (and even go as far as save the world!)   You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Instagram Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

What used to be a bonus episode is now public -enjoy! And now we say good bye to our boys for some time, as they go away on adventures we won't join in until season 2 :( We liked this episode, although we of course have a couple complains but over all, that's really minor. We got some feel good moments, some haha moments, some teary-eyed moments, some easter eggs, some social justice, some teenage girl thinks, some unabashed himboism, a happy horse, a mystery brain thing from Lo and I both, wow, and we even get to learn about sheep and funerals while alive.  You can become one of the cool kittens on Patreon and support our work + get some LOTR virgin read through reaction episodes in your ears (and even go as far as save the world!) You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!    

What used to be a bonus episode is now public -enjoy! The trial of Seven that was promised... Let's say one thing: it happened. I also want to give another tribute here to the best (and most upsetting) Books!Daario Naharis homage we'll ever get: Humphrey Beesbury deserved better ! Also, Daeron knew what was up (poor bb, give this sexy man a ticket to rehab) You can become one of the cool kittens on Patreon and support our work + get some LOTR virgin read through reaction episodes in your ears (and even go as far as save the world!) You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!    

What used to be a bonus episode is now public -enjoy! As I type this, I realise it may be worth it to point out that this episode titled « Seven » is very much not a remake of the movie with Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow. Just a head's up. So, here we are: Baelor nudges Dunk towards a trial by combat, but little jackass Aerion outsmarts him and requires a trial by seven. So now, Dunk has to assemble his team. He only has his squire, Prince Egg, and the honour [cough cough] of Ser Steffon Fossoway to help him get the crew together, and defend his, well, life -and the values of true knighthood: to protect the weak and innocent.  We may or may not get emotional, and may or may not tell you about how we watched this episode, and another time one of us watched an episode and cried a lot (even more than today, just before hitting record) Anyway, as always, let us know what you think, here or on social media, we love getting your feedback and extra commentary.   You can become one of the cool kittens on Patreon and support our work + get some LOTR virgin read through reaction episodes in your ears (and even go as far as save the world!) You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!    

What used to be a bonus episode is now public -enjoy! We loved this episode, and of course, Virginie loves pointing out flaws as per her usual Parisianness, but fortunately Lo is here to counteract with music (you'll hear a clip of the murderer's song at the end of the episode, and can check out the whole thing out here) As per always we give you our best and if a few times it feels like Virginie is saying the wrong name or uses grammar very liberally, she has a good reason (fibromyalgia) Keep your comments coming, they keep us fuelled for what's coming now that Dunk is in big trouble for being a big strong women respecting kind himbo with the energy of a golden retriever and very much of an orange cat. You can become one of the cool kittens on Patreon and support our work + get some LOTR virgin read through reaction episodes in your ears (and even go as far as save the world!) You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

What used to be a bonus episode is now public -enjoy! We get to say "himbo" one thousand times and if Egg knew the word, he probably would, too. Let us see why, and also talk about classism, characterisation of new people, things we didn't need to see, foul language and so on and so forth of all the good stuff (and some of the not as great, too) You can become one of the cool kittens on Patreon and support our work + get some LOTR virgin read through reaction episodes in your ears (and even go as far as save the world!) You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!  

We are making what was during the release of the season Patreon supporters bonus episodes public, and we hope you like it. An episode per day -it's faster than one per week, but there's still suspense! unless you want to binge it all at the end -up to you dear listener!  Should you want to be one of the cool kids, join us on Patreon and support our work + get some LOTR virgin read through reaction episodes in your ears (and even go as far as save the world!)   You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!  

In preperation for the new tv-show, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, we present you a very scientific examination of himbos in ASOIAF. Spoiler alert: our boy Dunk (thicc as a castle wall) ranks highly.   Join us as we discuss what exactly constitutes a himbo, and talk about characters ranging from Qarl the Maid to Grenn and Gendry. As well as some who are absolutely not himbos, even if they fit some criteria...    If you want to follow along with the ranking, here's the himbo ranking in full: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FsXoYDkqeZ9U8Js95UC9-2kmUs61bbdW/view?usp=drive_link   If you want to do your own ranking, here's a file you can download and fill out yourself: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xTbyax4x2jCFNOVNXVlEKeWIZqdZUyG4rgvOkgzuRuQ/edit?usp=drive_link   As mentioned in the episode - during the duration of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, we'll put out episodes discussion each episode for patreons. If you want to listen to those, or our previous episodes discussing LOTR, join our Patreon!   You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Instagram Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

In this episode we take you on a journey to meet very real people (à la Brandon Starks if he were a king or a hunter) who are saints and actual people who are saints (with or without boobies and visions) with a bonus festive saint and singing (no fire was started in the making of this episode). We manage to parallel Septon Meribald and Gregor Clegan (and bonus Oedipus!) to the same saint, and also talk Pretty Meris, Melisandre, Mother Mole, Baelor the Blessed, Jeyne Poole and more. We even throw in how Valyria could have avoided the Doom. And cakes that are boob-shaped. Join us on this trip and make this shortest day of the year if you're in the Northern Hemisphere longer (and bring extra light to it if you're in the Southern Hemisphere, and some cold because these candles are in Sweden) Tell your friends and maybe your racist uncle who needs to be reminded borders are fake about us and leave us a flurry of stars and a review wherever you listen to this episode <3 You can also join us on Patreon and support our work + get some LOTR virgin read through reaction episodes in your ears (and even go as far as save the world!)   You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!   Content, sources and ressources: Virginie talks about - Saint Agatha of Sicily https://www.vaticannews.va/fr/saint-du-jour/02/05/saint-agathe--vierge-et-martyre-de-catane.html https://www.vaticanstate.va/fr/etat-et-gouvernement/notes-generales/saint-du-jour/1458-5-fevrier-sainte-agathe-martyre.html Prière Eucharistique 1 https://www.bibliotheque-monastique.ch/bibliotheque/bibliotheque/prièreseuch/PREXEUCH.htm   Deborah PUCCIO, « Sainte Agathe, les femmes et le chocolat », Clio [En ligne], 14 | 2001, mis en ligne le 03 juillet 2006, consulté le 12 décembre 2025. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/clio/108 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/clio.108   - Saint Julien le Pauvre (Saint Julian the Poor) well, it's a Parisian mashup of a number of Saint Julians so maybe read on Julian the Hospitaller. And check out the church when you're in Paris! https://www.sjlp-paris.org/   Lo talks about: -Saint Erik https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/uppsaladomkyrka/erik-den-helige-och-andra-helgon https://www.so-rummet.se/kategorier/erik-den-helige  https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Mobil/Artikel/15396   -Saint Birgitta https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/heliga-birgitta-medeltida-maktspelerska  https://historiska.se/utforska-historien/kunskapsbank/heliga-birgitta-sveriges-mest-kanda-kvinna/  and bonus Saint Lucie and songs!  

In this episode we talk about gender nonconforming people throughout history, and ASOIAF. We cover everyone from Joan of Arc, genderqueer Viking era people, possible trans saints, and a Polish gender criminal (of sorts). And we compare them to characters like Brienne of Tarth, Morna White Mask, Alleras the Sphinx, Arya Stark, Brave Danny Flint, and more. Join us as we discuss how the gender binary is fake and heteronormativity is bullshit!     You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!   Content, sources and ressources: Lo talks about Late Iron Age/Viking age archeology, Saint Marinos, and Wojciech of Poznán: “Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography” edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall & Blake Gutt (including chapters by M.W. Bychowski and Lee Colwill) “Were there Transgender People in the Middle Ages?” - M.W. Bychowski “Wojciech of Poznán and the Trans Archive, Poland, 1550-1561” by Anna Kłosowska (in “Trans historical: Gender plurality before the modern”, edited by Greta LeFleur, Masha Raskolnikov & Anna Kłosowska) “Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings, ca. 750‐1050” - Jacob Bell   Virginie talks about Joan of Arc and Saint Eugene/Eugenia: “Les genres fluides - De Jeanne d'Arc aux saintes trans” by Clovis Maillet “Passionnément Moyen Âge - Plaidoyer pour le petit peuple” by Claude Gauvard

In this episode, your hosts take you once more to the delightful (or not) realm of political deaths. Some of them just stop being alive, some are murdered, some experience chop chop, but all men must die -kings, princes who are also kings, men who used to be kings, people who got rid of kings, people who didn't want to get rid of kings, people who are not monarchs too. Also, Virginie needs to come clean: she said "kings" were banned from the streets of Paris but she meant "pigs" 😅 (also, as her voice testifies, she was sick and deserves a break. Same for that time she forgets a key word in a sentence but it still makes sense) Tell your friends and even your enemies about this episode in real life and on social media, and if you liked what you hear, leave us a firework of stars and rave about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. Also, check out our Patreon! Virginie reads LOTR for the first time and is currently finding Jesus, you do not* want to miss it! (*or maybe you do) (up to you!) You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!   Content, sources and ressources: Lo talks about the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, the murder of Anna Lindh and the successful conspiracy against Gustav III https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/gustav-iii-skandaler-sexstrul-och-statskupper  https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/en-konspiration-tar-form-mordet-pa-gustav-iii-del-1  https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/attentatet-mordet-pa-gustav-iii-del-2  https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/dod-och-vedergallning-mordet-pa-gustav-iii-del-3  https://www.daghammarskjold.se/dag-hammarskjold/dag-hammarskjold/  https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/dag-hammarskjold-med-varlden-pa-sina-axlar  https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/nya-uppgifter-legoknekt-ska-ha-erkant-att-han-dodade-dag-hammarskjold  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Lindh  https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/mijailovic-talar-ut-det-ar-dags-att-sanningen-kommer-fram/  Virginie talks about the death of Philippe de France and the French Revolution. She hated the exercise of concision about a whole goddam war fought inside and outside the country so resorted to videos for high school students and the like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzaKONz9RZI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0InXmR8U0Ic

In this episode, we talk about one of our absolute favourite characters: Wyman Manderly. We analyse where he and his family stand in the North, how he is perceived and how he uses that, his sense of ethics, why we love him in spite of some... less savoury bits and we finally get to share artwork by the fantastic Hanieh @dr3adlady.bsky.social‬ (We'll share it on social media and on our Patreon, on a public post like all our public episodes) We also talk about some of the cast around him and we have a great time doing all that! Tell your friends and your favourite rat cook (Remy or otherwise) about it, and if you like what you hear, leave us a firework of stars and rave about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. Also, check out our Patreon where you can become a subscriber and get our bonus episodes at the Boots level and up! Virginie reads LOTR for the first time ever, and we hear from our patrons that she's keen eyed for *stuff* You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Instagram Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com! Sources/further reading: “’To Be Cocky Is to Challenge the Norms’: The Impact of Bodynormativity on Bodily and Sexual Attraction in Relation to Being a Cripple.” -  Denise Malmberg “Men and masculinities” - Stephen M Whitehead “Masculinity, Competence, and Health: The Influence of Weight and Race on Social Perceptions of Men.” - Nell Mary Trautner, Samantha Kwan & Scott V Savage “Lords Too Fat to Sit a Horse: Body Normativity and Masculinity in ASOIAF” - Lo

In this episode, your hosts and guest Ray, discuss what happens when different cultures meet, in ASOIAF and irl. We discuss migration, culture clashes, prejudice, racism, colonialism, and more! Along the way we conclude that both Viserys Targaryen and Jorah Mormont are the worst (albeit in different ways), and that the Free Folk makes a good parallel to climate refugees.  We also chat with our guest about his journey through both the ASOIAF fandom and life in general!  Tell your friends and fandom acquintances about this episode, and if you liked what you hear, leave us a bunch of stars and write a review on your podcast app of choice. Also, check out our Patreon where we publish exclusive bonus episodes for our beloved patrons: Virginie reads LOTR for the first time, and we just finished "The Fellowship of the Ring"!   You can contact Ray at: @untitledray (on Instagram) @untitledray.bsky.social (on Bluesky   You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Instagram   Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!   Content, sources and ressources that are not our own experiences: Lo ”The Free Folk and Colonialism” (essay by Lo) ”Herrarna satte oss hit: om tvångsförflyttningarna i Sverige” / ”The Rocks Will Echo our Sorrow: The forced displacement of the Northern Sámi” - Elin Anna Labba Map of Meänmaa ”Meänkieli – Grammatik, lärobok, historik, texter” - Bengt Pohjanen "Tornedalingar i Sverige" - Forum för levande historia ”Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Tornedalians, Kvens and Lantalaiset.” The song ”Donkey Kong” by Hooja.   Virginie "The Great Replacement Theory Explained" - National Immigration Forum "Forced migration or displacement" - Migration Data Portal "Migration and human mobility - key figures" - Migration Data Portal "Key migration terms" - IOM "Climate change and displacement" - UNHCR "Climate change and human mobility" - IOM Climate change (search on IOM's website)

In this third episode of our series looking at the books, actually, we look at a neat trick GRRM uses for subtle storytelling: the blasons/sigils of the main Houses of the North, through the prism of semiotics -and specifically, the tools developed by the researcher, Greimas. You don't know what semiotics are? Fair enough! Let us explain that it's the study of signs and symbols, and how they are used to create meaning, tell stories, communicate ideas. And that GRRM provides the keen-eyed reader with a prime example of how to use images well <3 We hope you like this episode as much as we enjoyed nerding out and making it! Tell your friends and even your barista about it, and if you like what you hear, leave us a firework of stars and rave about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. Also, check out our Patreon where you can become a member and get cool rewards such as our bonus episodes at the Boots level and up! Virginie reads LOTR for the first time ever, and has a lot of correct opinions (or so she has been told). You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com! Sources and further reading: http://www.signosemio.com/greimas/canonical-narrative-schema.asp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actantial_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotic_square

All men - and people in general - must die, but what happens afterwards? In this episode we discuss understandings of death, burial rituals, and the afterlife in ASOIAF and real life! Join us to learn about how the pop culture understanding of "Viking funerals" is somewhat inaccurate, but also how funeral processions for kings and nobles in ASOIAF are far less extra than they were in real-life France.    Tell your friends and even your enemies about this episode, and if you liked what you hear, leave us a firework of stars and rave about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. Also, check out our Patreon where we publish exclusive bonus episodes for our beloved patrons: Virginie reads LOTR for the first time! You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Instagram Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!   Content, sources and ressources: Lo: Norse funeral (Wikipedia) Kult och ritualer (Historiska museet) Levande och döda (Historiska museet) Hästen i den fornnordiska tron (SO-rummet) Fornnordisk tro och asatro (SO-rummet) Valhalla & Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology (Jessica Suess) “The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia” (Lee Colwill, in “Trans and Genderqueer Subjects of Medieval Hagiography” eds. Alicia Spencer-Hall & Blake Gutt)   Virginie: Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge (C. Gauvard, A. de Libera, M. Zink) Passionnément Moyen Âge -plaidoyer pour le petit peuple (Claude Gauvard) Jean-Claude Schmitt in La Mort et ses au-delà, sous la direction de Maurice Godelier Les Funérailles royales de Henri IV (1610) (Gillet)  Conclave : comment se déroule l’élection d’un Pape ? Tongan funerals (Wikipedia)  

In this second episode of our series looking at the books, in an extremely shocking twist of event (not), we are analysing Brienne! We're talking gender, the patriarchy, transphobia, toxic gender norms, heresy and Podrick Payne, Hyle Hunt and Jaime Lannister get a mention. So do Cercei and Catelyn, for different reasons. We hope you like this episode as much as we enjoyed making it! Tell your friends and even your barista about it, and if you like what you hear, leave us a firework of stars and rave about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. Also, check out our Patreon where you can become a member and get cool rewards such as our bonus episodes at the Boots level and up! Virginie reads LOTR for the first time ever, and everything is WWI (except when it's Star Wars) (something like that) You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com! Sources/further reading: -”A Brief Trans History” by Lohttps://lothelynx.wordpress.com/2021/11/24/a-brief-trans-history/  -“Were there Transgender People in the Middle Ages?” - M.W Bychowski -“Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography” - Alicia Spencer-Hall & Blake Gutt -“Transgender Warriors” - Leslie Feinberg -“My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix: Performing transgender rage” - Susan Stryker -“Bodies that Matter. On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” - Judith Butler  -“Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism.” - Marquis Bey   -”Kollektivtrafikens könstyranni” - Signe Bremer Gagnesjö (in ”(O)tryggt?: Makt, plats och motstånd”, edited by Malin Rönnblom, Ida Linander, and Linda Sandberg)

Your hosts and guest Abi ( @szegfu.bsky.social ) take you on a trip around the world and across time to learn more about George's favourite topic, probably: food! We discuss having to adapt to a new food culture in real life, like Catelyn and Tyrion as well as Areo Hotah and Ser Arys do in the books, what people eat in the North(s), what spices were found in medieval European kitchens, how to preserve food when you don't have a fridge or an ice cell (or even if you have one), how to recreate Joffrey's wedding feast but make it actually extravagant and how amazing it is to learn Hungarian with curses. Tell your friends and your favourite chef about this episode, and if you liked what you hear, leave us an oodle of stars and sing an ode about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. Also, check out our Patreon where we publish exclusive bonus episodes for our beloved patrons: Virginie reads LOTR for the first time, you do not* want to miss it! (*or maybe you do) (up to you!). She has thoughts on foods there, too. You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Instagram Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com! Content, sources and ressources that are not our own experiences: Lo: -  https://www.samer.se/mat   Virginie - Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge, C. Gauvard, A. de Libera, M. Zink - Les Plaisir au Moyen Âge, Jean Verdon    

Who wants to play? Swedish games the Ironborn would not shy from or French games Tyrion approves? Tell your friends and even your enemies about this episode, and if you liked what you hear, leave us a firework of stars and rave about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. Also, check out our Patreon where we publish exclusive bonus episodes for our beloved patrons: Virginie reads LOTR for the first time, you do not* want to miss it! (*or maybe you do) (up to you!) You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!   Content, sources and ressources: Lo: - "Kropp, Känslor och Relationer - Om sexualitet, samtycke och rättigheter för förskola  och grundskolans tidigare år" - Johanna Ivarsson, Loui Larsson, Sofie Olovsson, RM Ratesregn & Karin Salmson - "Så utvecklas barn av att leka" -Jenny Magnusson Österberg - "Längdåkningens historia i Sverige" - Jonas Cederquist - "Pepparkakskull" Virginie for images of better quality than my own: - Charlemagne chess game that was made in 11th C southern Italy, sculpted in ivory - https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/fr/html/lelephant-de-charlemagne?mode=desktop For words: - Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge, C. Gauvard, A. de Libera, M. Zink - Les Plaisir au Moyen Âge, Jean Verdon - Pieces of Power: Medieval Chess and the Male Homosocial Desire, Jenny Adams, University of North Texas - Mark Anthony Hall (2013) Magia Gry: Sztuka rywalizacji (The Magic of the Game: The Art of the Contest)Échecs et Trictrac: Fabrication et u des jeux de tables au Moyen Âge. Catalogue de l'exposition présentée du 23 juin au 18 novembre 2012 au Musée du château de MayenneArt du jeu, jeu dans l'art de Babylone à l'occident médiéval. Catalogue de l'exposition présentée du 28 novembre 2012 au 4 mars 2013 au Musée de Cluny — Musée national du Moyen Âge, ParisKõrts keskaegses linnas: Näituse ‘Poriveski Kõrts’. Kataloog/ Inn in a Medieval Town, Catalogue of the Exhibition ‘Poriveski Kõrts’ 13 May to 11 November 2011Religions in Play: Games, Rituals and Virtual Worlds, European Journal of Archaeology, 16:3, 574-580, DOI: 10.1179/146195713X13721616775755 https://doi.org/10.1179/146195713X13721616775755    

We debute a new episode series, all about, who could have predicted: ASOIAF. Like, actually, the books/ shows and not historical parallels. In this first episode, we talk about the greatest leader possibly ever, and certainly, a speaker for GRRM's pet project (to finish off the work JRR Tolkien left pending, something something genocide of baby orcs and tax policy): Tormund. If you've only watched the show and are confused about the previous statement (or if you have read the books and are confused about the previous statement), worry not: we contextualise everything we analyse. As this is the first episode of this kind for us, please let us know what you think, it's quite precious! Tell your friends and even your enemies about this episode, and if you liked what you hear, leave us a firework of stars and rave about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. Also, check out our Patreon where you can become a member and get cool rewards such as our bonus episodes at the Boots level and up! Virginie reads the first chapters of LOTR for the first time, you do not* want to miss it! (*or maybe you do) (up to you!) You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

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. Tell your friends and even your enemies about this episode, and if you liked what you hear, leave us a firework of stars and rave about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. Also, check out our Patreon where you can find out how to get bonus episodes and other cool things (such as shoot outs at the Sea Pounce level -who doesn't dream of a positive review of their person?). Also, we've just introduced our brand new super very special tier: Stannis the cat that was promised <3 You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky 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  “Freyja: Rape, Immigration, and the Medieval in Alt-Right Discourse” - Ali Frauman “Anti-refugee Mobilization in Social Media: The Case of Soldiers of Odin” - Mattias Ekman “Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings ca. 750-1050” by Jacob Bell Virginie: https://www.lavie.fr/idees/histoire/leglise-doit-elle-avoir-honte-des-croisades-15718.php https://orientxxi.info/magazine/islamophobie-un-mot-un-mal-plus-que-centenaires,1155 https://orientxxi.info/magazine/saint-louis-un-roi-prisonnier-des-cliches,0601 https://orientxxi.info/magazine/une-compassion-tres-politique-pour-les-chretiens-d-orient,1300 https://orientxxi.info/magazine/l-extreme-droite-francaise-le-proche-orient-et-l-obsession-islamiste,7440 https://journals.openedition.org/questionsdecommunication/33623 https://www.nonfiction.fr/article-9560-actuel-moyen-age-eric-zemmour-et-les-croisades-fact-checking.htm https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/i06334668/jm-le-pen-sur-l-islam-et-l-espace-chretien https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfsoc_0035-2969_1961_num_2_2_5933 https://bsky.app/profile/hmedievaliste.bsky.social/post/3lfoudwouwk2c

In this episode, your hosts take you on a trip all the way to the Early Middle Ages and back, to discuss queens of France and Sweden -a couple each, no one is jealous! And also Cercei, a lot. Somehow. And ask the real question: is Catelyn the most medieval character of ASOIAF? Tell your friends and even your enemies about this episode, and if you liked what you hear, leave us a firework of stars and rave about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. Also, check out our Patreon where our first actual bonus episode drops in a couple of days! Virginie reads the first chapters of LOTR for the first time, you do not* want to miss it! (*or maybe you do) (up to you!) You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!   Content, sources and ressources: Lo tells us about Margareta Eriksdotter aka Margareta Leijonhufvud: https://www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/Margaretadrottning https://popularhistoria.se/sveriges-historia/kungar-drottningar/margareta-leijonhufvud-vasadrottningen  and about someone never mentioned on this podcast ever yet (jokes), Kristina: “Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography” - Alicia Spencer-Hall & Blake  https://lothelynx.wordpress.com/2021/10/17/a-most-uncommon-woman-cersei-lannisters-gender-trouble/  “Fenixelden: Drottning Kristina som alkemist” - Susanna Åkerman https://livrustkammaren.se/press/pridevisningar-kung-kristina-en-queer-queen-i-bilder-av-kristina-under-prideveckan/  Virginie feels right at home, after a whole episode 14 without Middle Ages and talks about Queen (Sainte) Radegonde: https://books.openedition.org/septentrion/55169 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radegund and Jeanne de Bourgogne/ Joan the Lame: https://siefar.org/dictionnaire/fr/Jeanne_de_Bourgogne_(1295-1348) https://passionmedievistes.fr/super-joute-royale-9-rois-xiveme-siecle/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_the_Lame (and then she makes light of Macron killing democracy because Lo inspired her and it takes away some of the pain)  

This is but a taste of what is to come on our Patreon! In this bonus episode, one of your hosts discovers the prologue of the Fellowship of the Ring as she ventures into reading the Lord of the Rings for the first time. Sometimes, your other host represses a remark so there is suspense: what went wrong? Please don't spoil her: Your newbie host is curious and thrilled! She looks not only at the meta analysis and the story told, but also at the anthropological and linguistic elements provided in the prologue, and questions whether Tolkien was messing with both anthropologists and historical linguists. She thinks yes. It's fun! The Orcs of Winterfell get mentioned, as well as Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and a Disney Documentary on dwarves. French medievalist Vincent Ferré, whose incredible work can be found here is saluted (and Virginie looks forward to finally be able to read his most famous works when she's completed her read-through) As always, feel free to write to us on Bluesky, Instagram or send us an email: it's @ RagmansPod everywhere. You can also leave us Millions of stars and comments on your podcast app of choice and of course join us on Patreon!  

In this episode, your hosts tell you stories you best not try at home: political assassinations, successful and failed, in Sweden and France. From the Middle Ages to the 2OthC, discover stories bigger than fiction which sadly don't include dragons :(( Also, we have a Very Exciting Announcement: we're starting a Patreon! Find out more at the end of the episode and directly at the mouth of the river of time: Ragman's Patreon Tell your friends and even your enemies about this episode, and if you liked what you hear, leave us a firework of stars and rave about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky 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 Nyköpings gästabud Historielingo - Avsnitt 63: Håtunaleken Historielingo - Avsnitt 64: Nyköpings gästabud Killing of Erik XIV P3 Historia: Erik XIV - Intriger, brodermord och skandalös kärlek P3 Historia: Johan III - Krig, intriger och en mördad bror Assassination of Olof Palme https://www.so-rummet.se/kategorier/olof-palme  https://www.so-rummet.se/kategorier/palmemordet  https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordet_p%C3%A5_Olof_Palme  Olof Palme - Hanoi Speech 1972 (eng) Virginie Henri IV https://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/pages_histoire/40095   Jean Jaurès  https://dissidences.hypotheses.org/5716 https://www.histoire-en-citations.fr/citations/portrait-de-jean-jaures-en-citations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lm27IxQS8c  Louis-Philippe https://criminocorpus.hypotheses.org/143879 De Gaulle https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/afe85009640/l-attentat-du-petit-clamart https://www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/gendinfo/histoire/adjudant-francis-marroux-le-destin-d-un-gendarme-de-la-resistance-a-l-elysee    

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.  Tell your friends and even your enemies about this episode, and if you liked what you hear, leave us a firework of stars and rave about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. You can contact us at: [email protected] BlueSky Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com! 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  

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...    You can contact us at: [email protected] Twitter/X BlueSky   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!

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)   You can contact us at: [email protected] Twitter/X BlueSky Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!  

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"   You can contact us at: [email protected] Twitter/X BlueSky Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!  

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! You can contact us at: [email protected] Twitter/X BlueSky 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)!

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) You can contact us at: [email protected] Twitter/X BlueSky Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

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!   You can contact us at: [email protected] Twitter/X BlueSky Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!   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  

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 Tell your friends and even your enemies about this episode, and if you liked what you hear, leave us a firework of stars and rave about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. You can contact us at: [email protected] Twitter/X BlueSky 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 Wall https://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 trollen https://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

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 Tell your friends and even your enemies about this episode, and if you liked what you hear, leave us a firework of stars and rave about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. You can contact us at: [email protected] Twitter/X BlueSky 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

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! Tell your friends and even your enemies about this episode, and if you liked what you hear, leave us a firework of stars and rave about us in a review on your podcast app of choice. You can contact us at: [email protected] Twitter/X BlueSky 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

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!   You can contact us at: [email protected] Twitter/X BlueSky   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

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!   You can contact us at: [email protected] Twitter/X BlueSky   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

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: [email protected] Twitter/X BlueSky   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)

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-blodbad https://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-blodbad https://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 blurb Jérémie Foa's Tous ceux qui tombent book on the event Jérémie 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