What The History Podcast

Vengeance on a Viking and Capers in a Canal

In this episode Suzie talks about the life of Sigurd the Mighty and Trevor visits The Yellow Fleet!

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Sources:

SIGURD THE MIGHTY

James E 2014, Overview: The Vikings, 800 to 1066, BBC History http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/overview_vikings_01.shtml#one
Readicon 2016, Bizarre Viking Deaths: Sigurd the Mighty killed by a bite from a severed head, Readicon.com http://readicon.com/bizarre-viking-deaths-sigurd-the-mighty-killed-by-a-bite-from-a-severed-head/
Towrie S 1996-2017, Viking Orkney – King Harald and the establishment of the Earldom, Orkneyjar – The Heritage of the Orkney Islands http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/vikingorkney/earldom.htm
Towrie S 1996-2017, Earl Sigurd the Powerful – The first earl of Orkney, Orkneyjar – The Heritage of the Orkney Islands http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/historicalfigures/sigmighty.htm

THE YELLOW FLEET

The Yellow Fleet – Now I Know

There Once Was a Country in the Middle of the Suez Canal – Conde Nast Traveler

The Yellow Fleet of the Suez Canal, 1967-1975 – Weird International Relations

The Great Bitter Lake Trophy – issuu.com

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out

Ship of Fools – World Party (1987)

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