Dr. Eleanor Barraclough

No bad ideas. Not all of them can be gone.

No bad ideas. Not all of them can be gone.

Actually, I was always fascinated by England. I don't know, it might have to do with Hugh Grant. Hugh Grant! Yes, it did. Four weddings and a funeral. Iconic.

Actually, I was always fascinated by England. I don't know, it might have to do with Hugh Grant. Hugh Grant! Yes, it did. Four weddings and a funeral. Iconic.

This is a story of working-class women trying to get by. This is survival.

This is a story of working-class women trying to get by. This is survival.

I'm not the useful sort of doctor. If you have a heart attack, you're on your own.

I'm not the useful sort of doctor. If you have a heart attack, you're on your own.

Yeah, well, we can fix ourselves chronologically. If we think of the Viking Age as spanning at least from around 750 CE roughly up to about 1100 CE. And it begins in the Scandinavian homelands. So we're thinking Denmark, Norway and Sweden. It involves violence.

Yeah, well, we can fix ourselves chronologically. If we think of the Viking Age as spanning at least from around 750 CE roughly up to about 1100 CE. And it begins in the Scandinavian homelands. So we're thinking Denmark, Norway and Sweden. It involves violence.

Oh, because actually that's not a Scandinavian country. It's Nordic. They're there, but not quite in the same way. But yeah, there's lots of violence. There's conquest, but there's also trading and exploration and settlement.

Oh, because actually that's not a Scandinavian country. It's Nordic. They're there, but not quite in the same way. But yeah, there's lots of violence. There's conquest, but there's also trading and exploration and settlement.

So you end up with this Norse diaspora that encompasses parts of the British Isles and Western Europe, Mediterranean, what's now Russia and Ukraine, and then all the way to Constantinople. They end up in Baghdad. Then in the other direction, they go all the way across the North Atlantic and they settle the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland.

So you end up with this Norse diaspora that encompasses parts of the British Isles and Western Europe, Mediterranean, what's now Russia and Ukraine, and then all the way to Constantinople. They end up in Baghdad. Then in the other direction, they go all the way across the North Atlantic and they settle the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland.

No, no. There is a place called Vik in Norway, which is sort of might be related to the word, but there's an Old Norse, so that's language that the Vikings spoke. There's an Old Norse version of the word, vikingr, which is someone who's essentially a raider. So it's basically a seaborne raider. But not everyone who lived during the Viking Age in that cultural context is a raider.

No, no. There is a place called Vik in Norway, which is sort of might be related to the word, but there's an Old Norse, so that's language that the Vikings spoke. There's an Old Norse version of the word, vikingr, which is someone who's essentially a raider. So it's basically a seaborne raider. But not everyone who lived during the Viking Age in that cultural context is a raider.

So they're not all Vikings. And even raiders are not always raiding. And sometimes they call their children Viking.

So they're not all Vikings. And even raiders are not always raiding. And sometimes they call their children Viking.

Farming, mostly. Farming? Yeah, fishing.

Farming, mostly. Farming? Yeah, fishing.