Frithcast Episode 148 - Burials with Rocks in

Frithcast

Episode 148: Burials with Rocks in

Things we talk about in this episode:

Opening Music:

'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]

Closing Music:

'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]

Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org

"Imitate the action of the tiger" - Shakespeare; 'Henry V': https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/546127-in-peace-there-s-nothing-so-becomes-a-man-as-modest
Frankie Howerd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Howerd
Dark Angel: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204993/
Gerrae: Latin term referring to small branches and twigs - carries connotation of trivia and thereby of "nonsense".
"A frog in my bidet" - 'Red Dwarf': https://quotegeek.com/television-quotes/red-dwarf/18/
Roc/Rokh (mythic bird): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roc_(mythology)
The Gerdrup Grave: http://viking.archeurope.com/religion/pagan-religion/gerdrup-grave/
Mitochondria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion
And 'Mitochondrial Eve', the first matrilineal ancestor common to all living humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
"It's just a book. No harm ever came from reading a book." - 'The Mummy' (1999): https://youtu.be/6J-PhFYNbOU
Bj 581: https://gythainjeans.podbean.com/e/frithcast-episode-55-bj581-the-grave-formerly-known-as-male/
The Mummy (1999)/The Mummy Returns (Mummy 2): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120616/ | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209163/
Cyberpunk 2077 (2020 video game): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2077
Ofrenda - a tradition for Día de los Muertos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofrenda

If you want to go all serious and academic like, here’s a good place to start:

Ole Thirup Kastholm and Ashot Margaryan ‘Reconstructing the Gerdrup Grave – the story of an unusual Viking Age double grave in context and in the light of new analysis’ In Danish Journal of Archaeology 2021 Vol 10 pp10-20.

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