In Episode 6 we’re are looking at the fearsome many headed beasts that have appeared in mythology and story through the centuries. My main references for this episode are Borges book of Imaginary Beings, Richard Barber’s translation of the MS Bodley 764 Bestiary and Hana Videen’s, The Deorhord. So, grab yourself a cuppa as we battle with the many headed.
There are some dark folkloric characters explored in this podcast and so, as always, I would recommend that you should listen through first before listening with younger members of your household.
This is the penultimate episode for this season and the penultimate episode for the podcast as I have decided to stop at five seasons so that I can concentrate on the book deadlines I have and create some space to develop new ideas. Don’t worry, I have plenty of those. I will no doubt be back next year with a new podcast that explores heritage, landscape and stories in new ways.
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References:
Aaronovich, Ben, (2011) Moon Over Soho, Gollanzc
Barber, Richard (1993) Bestiary MS Bodley 764, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge
Borges, Jorge Luis, (2002) The Book Of Imaginary Beings, Vintage
Nelson, Dawn (2021) Adventures In Nature, The History Press.
Videen, Hana (2021) The Deor Hord: An Old English Bestiary, Profile Books
On The Anglo-Saxon Wonders Of The East - https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/338f66302d074034b64843865bb6e959
Season 3 Episode 2 Stories From Lore - Written in the Stars - https://cerridwenscauldron.substack.com/p/season-3-episode-2-written-in-the-273
Music
Midnight Tale by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Incidental music - ancient-greece-326845 via Pixabay
Sound Effects via www.orangefreesounds.com & www.pixabay.com
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