In episode four of the podcast we talk all about the cats of ASOIAF and our world. What function has cats had in our world historically, and how does that parallel ASOIAF? Are there cats in mythology and religion (in ASOIAF and irl)? Is Ser Pounce the true hero of the story? Join us on a feline trip through ASOIAF and history! Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com! You can contact us at: [email protected] Twitter/X BlueSky Sources and resources Lo: “Medieval Pets” - Kathleen Walker-Meikle “Människan och faunan: Etnobiologi i Sverige” - Håkan Tunón “Kattens historia: Sverige speglat i kattens öga” - Gunnar Broberg "Freyja predicted the future"- Historiska museet "Nedslag i nordisk mytologi, del 11: Freja" - Malin Kim “Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings, ca. 750‐1050” - Jacob Bell “The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia.” - Lee Colwill in Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, eds. Alicia Spencer-Hall & Blake Gutt. Virginie: "L'homme et le chat, un dialogue immémorial"- Radio France "Chat" - Au Blason Des Armoiries "Bestiaries" - Michel Pastoureau "Médiéval bestiaries" - Michel Pastoureau "Black: History of a colour" - Michel Pastoureau "Les Fleurs du Mal" - Charles Baudelair "Le Roman de Renart" "Le Chat" - Guillaume Apollinaire
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