The Art and Science of the Viking Age
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Terri and C.J. are first and foremost educators passionate about the Viking Age and Viking history. Theirs was a meeting foretold in the myths of old. Both are historians of Viking history, both live in Oregon in the U.S., and both share the same birthday. It seemed only natural they team up for something epic. The Norns have woven this fate. vikingology.substack.com
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Guest conversations connect Viking Age sources, identities, and regional networks while preserving the uncertainty that makes historical interpretation matter.
CJ Adrian and Terry Barnes build Vikingology Podcast around expansive guest conversations, using humor and persistent follow-up questions to make Viking Age scholarship approachable without sanding away its uncertainties.
CJ Adrian and Terry Barnes bring your Viking assumptions to the pub, then ask for sources.
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A loose Vikingology check-in connects milestone talk with courses, guest previews, and Viking law.
Vikingology uses a filler episode as a loose but useful look at the work gathering around the show. CJ Adrian and Terry Barnes mark more than two years on air, note that they are nearing 50 episodes, and describe a podcast shaped by curiosity rather than a fixed plan.
Ragnarok becomes a question of whether repeated cosmic patterns still leave room for choice.
This Vikingology episode frames Ragnarok as a story about time as well as cosmic collapse. C.J. Adrian and Terry Barnes speak with Professor Carolyn Larrington, a scholar of Old English and Old Norse and a research fellow at St.
A relaxed return through Iceland, Hastings, a Viking artifact, and the uncertain geography of Bretland.
Vikingology returns in an easy conversational mode as CJ Adrian and Terry Barnes move from birthday banter and travel updates into historical speculation.
A DNA match between Viking skeletons in southern England and Denmark turns a mass burial into a story of kinship, defeat, and power.
Vikingology Podcast centers on a mass burial in southern England, treating the dead as probable battle losers whose treatment seems meant to carry a message of defeat and dishonour.
A careful, tactile discussion of Viking burial posture, chamber graves, and the limits of interpretation.
Vikingology turns Viking burial into a question of space, evidence, and interpretation. CJ Adrian and Terry Barnes welcome back Kevin and Devin, living history experts and experimental archaeologists, for a discussion of their collaborative book and the images around it.
A clear look at Viking groups in Frankia, with hierarchy, trade, and group identity in focus.
Monarchs and Hydrarchs stays close to the record and keeps its focus on Vikings in Frankia as organized groups rather than lone raiders. It follows hierarchy, trade, political activity, and the ways Viking alliances could hold together for a time and then break apart again.
Fantasy, metallurgy, and Viking Age ideas meet in a conversation that stays lively as it moves.
A former FBI cyber intelligence analyst turned full-time fantasy author joins Vikingology, and the hosts use Greg Amato's trilogy to move cleanly between saga-inspired fiction, story rules, and Viking Age ideas.
Ghost stories, ritual, and the limits of what Viking sources can support.
Viking ghost stories provide the hook, but the stronger draw is how the discussion keeps circling back to a world where magic, ritual, and ordinary life are hard to pull apart. CJ Adrian and Terry Barnes bring in Dr.
Greek myth told with fatal momentum.
Ancient empire told in old public-domain voices.
Professor Alexandra Sandmark joins the Vikingology Podcast to discuss Viking law and order, debunking myths of lawlessness.
Hosts CJ and Terry interview Rowdy Garrison, translator of the Impudent Edda, exploring his humorous takes on Norse mythology inspired by Boston culture.
Vikingology Podcast’s 50th episode centers on Eric Knudsen and the 56-foot Viking ship Valkyrie, built in Anacortes, Washington.
CJ Adrian and Terry Barnes frame Vikingology Podcast around modern Viking living history with Kevin Alexandrovich of Yarnborg Vikings and Devin Rawlings of Baseborn.
Professor Carolyn Larrington of St.
CJ Adrian and Terry Barnes open by noting this will be their last recording together from Oregon before Terry moves to France and the show pauses until September.
Greg Amato stops by with a résumé that feels almost like a plot twist.
Vikingology welcomes historical fiction author Peter Gibbons.
CJ Adrian and Terry Barnes open by bringing on archaeologist Alex Harvey from Yorkshire.
Vikingology Podcast focuses on the Great Viking Army as a mobile force that overwintered, took horses in East Anglia around AD 865, and then campaigned across England, Ireland, and northern Britain.
Vikingology podcast hosts CJ Adrian and Terry Barnes welcome back experimental archaeologists and living historians Kevin and Devin to discuss their new photo book on Viking-age burial practices, published by Hielder Press.
John Fletcher argues that Cornwall was not a backwater but a peninsula tied outward by sea routes, tin trade, and contact with Brittany and Galicia.
Vikingology Podcast's "Viking Law and Order: English Edition" centers on Dr.
Claire Downham discusses a new Penguin Classics source book on Vikings in Britain and Ireland, with about 30 sources and images such as the Balatyr burial mound on the Isle of Man and the Thor's hammer from Repton.
Hosts CJ and Terry interview Dr.
Christophe Adria and Terry Barnes welcome Christian Kuybens to talk Vikings in Frankia.
CJ Adrian and Terry Barnes open the show by introducing Ross Downing, whose background sits at the crossroads of Old Norse cosmology, theology, and paganism.
Vikingology Podcast’s “It’s a Saga Thing!” brings back John Sexton and Andy Fringer, the hosts of Saga Thing, after their earlier appearance on Ian Stewart Sharp’s When the Wolf Comes.
Vikingology Podcast's "Viking Ghost Stories" brings in Dr.
The episode explores the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, where Irish king Brian Beru fought Viking forces from Dublin.
Vikingology Podcast hosts CJ Adrian and Terry Barnes speak with Dr.
Hosts Terri and C.J.
The hosts interview Icelandic folklorists Kauri Paulson and Georgia about their new book on Icelandic magic manuscripts, focusing on the unique Jarðskinna grimoire used to communicate with land spirits through dreams.
CJ Adrian and Terry Barnes are back after a summer break, which mostly turned into Terry’s move to France, and they welcome Dr.
Hosts Terri and C.J.
Vikingology Podcast's "Oh, the humanity!" centers on Dr.
Co-hosts CJ and Terri interview Dr.
CJ interviews Joshua Gillingham about his new Viking-themed game project.
The hosts discuss the Gotlandic hypothesis that Beowulf may have originated from the island of Gotland, with guests Hans Vonnebu and Rickard Evertson.
An interview with Professor Sverre Jakobsson about his research on Vikings in the East, specifically the Varangians and the Rus.
The hosts celebrate their 30th episode by introducing a guest from Parks Canada to discuss Leif Erikson Day and the Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows.
An interview with historical fiction author Octavia Randolph about her Viking Age book series and the use of the term 'Viking'.
Historians CJ and Terri interview an Icelandic archaeologist about Viking Age housing and museum reconstruction.
Discussion of Viking Age poetry, comparing edict and Scaldic poetry forms.
Historians Terri and C.J.