Episode 95 – The Wild Hunt
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
Additional sound effects from Ambient Mixer
Opening quote from Branston, Brian. 1974. The Lost Gods of England. p. 94. From the Peterborough Chronicle in 1127.
Manan Manan from the Muppets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ
Ghost Riders in the Sky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fhy8o7ufi8
Ghost Rider (2007) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259324/
“The first rule of…” From Fight Club (1999) https://lithub.com/everyone-misunderstands-the-point-of-fight-club/
The Wickerman remake https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450345/
Covered in bees: Eddie Izzard
Flaming Queens - https://glosbe.com/en/en/flaming%20queen
Flaming Lips https://www.flaminglips.com/
The Battle of Stamford Bridge: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/The-Battle-of-Stamford-Bridge/
The Wild Hunt legends, https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/omen-odin-wild-hunt-thundered-across-european-skies-bringing-calamity-and-doom-021618 here’s the ones from Orkney: http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/hunt.htm
Jacob Grimm – first defined it as a Germanic Pagan Tradition in 1835
Diana and Nemuralia: http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/08/nemoralia-festival-of-diana.html
“When I was younger, so much younger than today” Help, by the Beatles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q_ZzBGPdqE&list=PLdFVES8fU1kM1GZbA5bB4lIKLWQOAqHQM
Robin, the Hooded Man and Herne https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/Guide/RobinOfSherwood.htm
The painting – The Wild Hunt of Odin (1872) by Peter Arbo
The Prometheus School of Running Away from Things: https://cinemasins.fandom.com/wiki/Prometheus_School_of_Running_Away_from_Things
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Closing reading: "When the winter winds blow and the Yule fires are lit, it is best to stay indoors, safely shut away from the dark paths and the wild heaths. Those who wander out by themselves during the Yule-nights may hear a sudden rustling through the tops of the trees - a rustling that might be the wind, though the rest of the wood is still.
"But then the barking of dogs fills the air, and the host of wild souls sweeps down, fire flashing from the eyes of the black hounds and the hooves of the black horses"
Kveldulf Hagen Gundarsson (Mountain Thunder)
