Maren McKenna

Okay, so yeah, maybe just walk us through it.

Right, so okay, so you have... Hello, I'm Dr. Christina Lee.

Christina.

And I'm an associate professor in Viking studies at the School of English at the University of Nottingham.

She's a historian.

And then you also have... Hi, I'm Freya Harrison.

Freya.

I'm a research fellow in the Centre for Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Nottingham.

And Freya's a microbiologist.

She studies bacteria.

We'll start with her.

Okay.

So most of my work is about sort of looking at how bacteria evolve during very, very long-lived infections.

But my big hobby is Anglo-Saxon and Viking reenactments.

So I had a purely sort of amateur interest in the history and mainly in dressing up as a warrior and going to fight club every Wednesday night and learning to use the weapons.

So this is actually not Freya's group.

This is a group in New Jersey, but basically they do the same thing.

Hundreds of people go out into, you know, some field with some dulled weapons.

Everything from swords, spears, axes and...

We give each other a jolly good bashing and have a good time.