Episode 38 - Eating Hearts and Drinking Blood

<p>This time we dig into a rarely discussed aspect of Norse mythology: stealing your enemy&#39;s power by eating their heart or drinking their blood. But just who&#39;s power can be stolen by way of this gory ritual? Animals? Monsters? Humans? Let&#39;s find out together.</p><p><strong>Sources:</strong></p><li><ul><li>“Heimskringla Volume 1, The Beginnings to Óláfr Tryggvason” transl. by Alison Finlay and Anthony Faulkes, 2011</li><li>“Gesta Danorum” transl. by Karsten Friis-Jensen and Peter Fisher, 2015</li><li>“The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki” transl. By Jesse Byock, 1998</li><li>“The Dating of Eddic Poetry: Evidence from Alliteration” by Haukur Þorgeirsson, 2016</li><li>“Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda” by Christopher Sapp, 2022</li><li>&quot;Eaten hearts and supernatural knowledge in Eiríks saga rauða&quot; by Andrea Maraschi, 2018</li><li>“The Poetic Edda”, transl. by Edward Pettit, 2023</li><li>“The Prose Edda”, transl. by Anthony Faulkes, 1995</li></ul></li><p><strong>Contact:</strong></p><ul><li>Write in: waelhraefn (at) gmail (dot) com</li><li>Join the Discord: <a href="https://discord.gg/Nvw5hmkRsW">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/Nvw5hmkRsW⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></li></ul><p><strong>Music:</strong></p><p>Celebration by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</p>