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Magic mushrooms, berserkers, mysterious rituals! Did these things mean anything to the Vikings?
Inhaling smoke to see trippy stuff didn't start with 420 or the swinging sixties. People have been using burnt plants to hallucinate for thousands of years!
But what about the Vikings? What sort of drugs were they using? Did Berserkers really eat mushrooms? Did priestesses and seers use magic and cannabis seeds to speak with Odin, Thor and Loki? And what evidence do we actually have that Vikings were tripping balls before battle like in Vinland Saga?
Join me as we look at hallucinogenic history from the Minoans and Greeks to the Norsemen, to see what they were using, how they might have used it, and why.
Groovy.
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Insta: @littlewelshviking
Reading:
advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaaw1391
https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/a-seeress-from-fyrkat/
https://sciencenorway.no/drugs-history-plants/crazed-viking-warriors-may-have-been-high-on-henbane/1571431
world-archaeology.com/features/norway-oseberg-ladies
Business and collaboration email: thewelshviking1@gmail.com
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Magic mushrooms, berserkers, mysterious rituals! Did these things mean anything to the Vikings?
Inhaling smoke to see trippy stuff didn't start with 420 or the swinging sixties. People have been using burnt plants to hallucinate for thousands of years!
But what about the Vikings? What sort of drugs were they using? Did Berserkers really eat mushrooms? Did priestesses and seers use magic and cannabis seeds to speak with Odin, Thor and Loki? And what evidence do we actually have that Vikings were tripping balls before battle like in Vinland Saga?
Join me as we look at hallucinogenic history from the Minoans and Greeks to the Norsemen, to see what they were using, how they might have used it, and why.
Groovy.
Find me elsewhere:
Patreon: patreon.com/jimmyjohnson
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/thewelshviking
Insta: @littlewelshviking
Reading:
advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaaw1391
https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/a-seeress-from-fyrkat/
https://sciencenorway.no/drugs-history-plants/crazed-viking-warriors-may-have-been-high-on-henbane/1571431
world-archaeology.com/features/norway-oseberg-ladies
Business and collaboration email: thewelshviking1@gmail.com
Letters, parcels, packages?
The Welsh Viking,
PO Box 821,
YORK,
YO1 0PY
