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In this instalment of my monthly listening tips, Iโd like to share a few podcasts and radio programmes on the subject of Norse mythology. If you donโt know much about it, some of them will serve as a good introduction to the topic, while others go deeper into very specific aspects of the Norse culture.
If you like dark and gloomy crime TV with a touch of supernatural and mythological, donโt miss the French series Black Spot on Netflix. When I first started watching Black Spot (orig. Zone blanche), I assumed it would be a typical crime story set in a small place in the middle of nowhere (just the …
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In this post weโll get to learn a couple of key words connected with the major Christian holiday of Easter, as well as the days preceding it. Some of them have a really interesting origin, so weโll also take a quick look at their etymology and cultural background.
In an earlier post, I wrote about the etymology of the English words for the days of the week. As we saw there, those words have their origin (for the most part) in the names of some of the main deities of the Germanic pantheon. In this post weโll look at the names of the …
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