Episode 99 Storytime: A Moderately Bloody Love Story
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
“It’s the same thing we do every night” Pinky and the Brain TV cartoon series (1995 - 98) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112123/
Oar fish http://www.seasky.org/deep-sea/oarfish.html
TARDIS: https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/TARDIS
“These are small, those are far away” Father Ted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_(Father_Ted)
Baby Yoda – Grogu, from The Mandalorian https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Grogu
“For me, it was Tuesday” Bison, Street Fighter film 1994 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVzAMmpMra8
Gomez and Morticia from the Addams Family (especially the 1991 film https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101272/)
“Prepare to die” Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/characters/nm0001597
Tome of Set Dungeon in Diablo III: https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Set_Dungeon
Text Scroll, most notably used in the Star Wars films: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Opening_crawl
The theory that Jar Jar Binks is a Sith Lord https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/star-wars-darth-jar-jar-binks-theory-partially-true-says-actor-a6923351.html
Smurfs https://www.smurf.com/
“Three dwarves in a trenchcoat” – paraphrased from ‘Three Coins in a Fountain’ (1954) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047580/
Tolkien’s dwarves: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Dwarves
The Dread Pirate Roberts – from The Princess Bride https://princessbride.fandom.com/wiki/Dread_Pirate_Roberts
Klingon love stories https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Klingon_mating_rituals
“A Dothraki wedding without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair.” Game of Thrones, episode 1, season 1, Illyrio Mopatis https://scatteredquotes.com/dothraki-wedding-without-least/
Grongu-Hrolf is a fairly unique name, and there is someone historical who shares it. The author of this saga is at pains to point out that his story is fiction, and not related to the historical person: https://core.ac.uk/reader/233573430
Grongu-Hrolfs Saga has a lot of powerful men in. A lot. It’s been proposed that this saga is about men and for men, so that they can see power and vulnerability through gender. You can read a summary of a book about it here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/masculinities-in-old-norse-literature/vulnerable-masculinities-and-the-vicissitudes-of-power-in-gonguhrolfs-saga/2D67FA8905CD0E46211094189B14FABC
And that whole feet off, then back on again bit? There’s a paper here that looks at defensiveness in narrators in Icelandic sagas: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/staffpages/uploads/his221/history-or-fiction.pdf
If you’d like to hear this saga/ Suicide Squad mash up, you can head here: https://deadideas.net/2018/08/19/berserkers-viii-finale-suicide-swords-suicide-squad-gongu-hrolfs-saga-mashup-viking-history/
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