Dr. Kate Lister
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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And they tried to burn him and it started raining and it was put out the fire three times before they could actually finish it.
But they kept going.
And then the priest on his way home fell over and broke his leg and everyone thought that was a sign that Lassie must have been innocent.
Do you know what I found particularly freaky when I learned this history?
Iceland doesn't have a lot of trees, right?
So the Vikings turned up there and went, oh, there's loads of trees and they cut them all down.
But because it's dark all winter, they don't grow very fast.
They grow really, really slowly, the trees.
They're very much preserved.
Wood is very, very precious.
By the time you get to the 17th century, wood is extremely precious, which is why most of the houses are built of peat.
They had to go to special lengths to build the bonfires.
They had to go really scavenge and find enough wood to be able to burn these people to death.
And I don't know why that just makes it even more horrible.
Yeah, we're willing to sacrifice.
Yeah, this very, very precious resource to do this.
But yeah, Helga, she seems to keep being poorly and more people are being executed.
And then eventually she moves.
And I'm not even sure what happens to her at the end of it.
Presumably she kept being sick.
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