Ragman’s Harbour – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, your hosts tell you stories you best not try at home: political assassinations, successful and failed, in Sweden and France.

From the Middle Ages to the 2OthC, discover stories bigger than fiction which sadly don't include dragons :((

Also, we have a Very Exciting Announcement: we're starting a Patreon! Find out more at the end of the episode and directly at the mouth of the river of time: Ragman's Patreon

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Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

Sources and ressources:

• Lo
• Nyköpings gästabud

Historielingo - Avsnitt 63: Håtunaleken

Historielingo - Avsnitt 64: Nyköpings gästabud

• Killing of Erik XIV

P3 Historia: Erik XIV - Intriger, brodermord och skandalös kärlek

P3 Historia: Johan III - Krig, intriger och en mördad bror

• Assassination of Olof Palme

https://www.so-rummet.se/kategorier/olof-palme 

https://www.so-rummet.se/kategorier/palmemordet 

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordet_p%C3%A5_Olof_Palme 

Olof Palme - Hanoi Speech 1972 (eng)

• Virginie
• Henri IV

  https://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/pages_histoire/40095

   

• Jean Jaurès 

https://dissidences.hypotheses.org/5716

https://www.histoire-en-citations.fr/citations/portrait-de-jean-jaures-en-citations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lm27IxQS8c 

• Louis-Philippe

  https://criminocorpus.hypotheses.org/143879

• De Gaulle

https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/afe85009640/l-attentat-du-petit-clamart

https://www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/gendinfo/histoire/adjudant-francis-marroux-le-destin-d-un-gendarme-de-la-resistance-a-l-elysee

In this episode, your hosts take you on a journey to medieval and not so medieval Europe to explore the rich world of heraldry to compare it to its Westeros counterpart: sigils. 

Who gets to have a coat of arms? How to pick your doodle? What are the rules? Are imaginary coat of arms a new thing?

We discovered so much we didn't know about, it was an actual delight to learn so much -and hopefully you enjoy learning with us. It's not just pretty images, but it is *also* pretty images. And identity. 

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BlueSky

Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

Virginie:

- Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge : "héraldique", article par Michel Pastoureau

-         http://chroniques.bnf.fr/archives/sept2002/numero_courant/manifestations/pastoureau_inter.htm

- Blasonner en latin (xiie-xvie siècle) - Michel Pastoureau https://books.openedition.org/psorbonne/21154?lang=fr

https://journals.openedition.org/extremeorient/110

https://books.openedition.org/pufr/16462?lang=fr

• Les Armoiries de Paris - Marc DECLERCK
• Le Blason des Temps Nouveau - Catalogue de l’exposition
• Armorial de la ville de Paris

https://essentiels.bnf.fr/fr/image/ba845ff7-2c3b-4a38-b1dd-02cfefe6a771-armorial-la-table-ronde-1

http://quetedugraal.over-blog.com/blasons-des-chevaliers-de-la-table-ronde/

https://herald-dick-magazine.blogspot.com/2015/09/la-quete-du-graal-dans-les-manuscrits.html?m=1

Lo:

 https://varumarkesmanual.uppsala.se/tillampningar/uppsalas-stadsvapen/

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholms_stadsvapen 

“Heraldiken i Sverige” - Magnus Bäckmark & Jesper Wasling

In this episode, your hosts take you on a cruise to discover real world creatures that are extremely real, as our friends the Orcs of Winterfell reminded us, and as attested by medieval bestiaries.

We also draw parallels with what creatures we see in the books A Song of Ice and Fire, A World of Ice and Fire as well as Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon the TV shows: dragons, unicorns, wyverns etc. and even weirwood trees!

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Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

Sources and ressources:

Lo's sources: 

“Drakspår: på jakt efter världens mest kända reptil” - Bo Eriksson

“Nordiska väsen” - Johan Egerkrans

“Folktrons väsen” - Tora Wall

“Smöjning & rotdragning” - När man talar om trollen

“Bäckahästen” - När man talar om trollen

“Sjöodjur” - När man talar om trollen

“Ormen i myt och folktro” - När man talar om trollen

Virginie's sources:

Licornes/ unicorns : Michel Pastoureau, Bestiaires du Moyen Âge

Tarasque : https://books.openedition.org/gup/399  https://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/3565

Dragons : https://journals.openedition.org/leportique/171#tocto2n4

Vouivre/ Wyvern: https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers16-08/010041931.pdf

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:

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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

Today on the 26th of December, the Titan of Braavos brings you a gift: episode 3 of Ragman's Harbour!

In our third episode, we discuss naming conventions in ASOIAF and our real world. How did last names come to be a thing in our world, and how does that parallel last names in ASOIAF? Why are there so many Aegons in ASOIAF history, as well as many Louis and Gustavs in French and Swedish history? (Spoiler: it has to do with one of Virginie's favourite words)

We also discuss the effects of colonisation and slavery on the naming of people, both in ASOIAF and our own world. So get ready to learn all about names and what they say about norms and structures in society!

Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

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Sources and resources

Lo:

“Efternamn i Sverige” - Institutet för språk och folkminnen 

“Historik om personnamn i Sverige” - Institutet för språk och folkminnen

“De naturliga efternamnen” Statistikmyndigheten SCB

“Svenska förnamn genom historien - från Eskil till Estelle” - Åke Steinwall 

“Namnskick i forna tider” - Svenska Heraldiska föreningen

“‘De kunde ju tro man var en finnpajsare’” - Karin Skoglund 

“Om Tornedalens namnskick i äldre tid” - Erik Kouksu 

“Svenska kyrkan och det samiska namnskicket: Övergripande perspektiv” - Marit Frändén 

“‘Att blotta vem jag är’ - Släktnamnsskick och släktnamnsbyten hos samer i Sverige 1920–2009” - Marit Frändén 

“Namn i kyrkböckerna” - Sametinget 

“The Multiple Burdens of Foreign-Named Men—Evidence from a Field Experiment on Gendered Ethnic Hiring Discrimination in Sweden” - Moa Bursell. 

Virginie:

"Famille et pouvoir dans le monde Franc" (chapitre VI) - Régine Le Jan

"Noms de famille et noms de terre dans la noblesse française à l’époque moderne" - Élie Haddad

"Du son à la scription, la trace indélébile du nom: À propos d’une blessure héritée de l’esclavage aux Antilles-Guyane" - Philippe Chanson

In our second episode, we dive into a variety of sex scandals and issues of inheritance, from our own world and ASOIAF. As we go along, we discuss what happens when royals have sex out of wedlock, but also what rights bastards have in various historical and cultural contexts. And much more.

We want to give a brief apology for the audio quality in this episode. We had some issues when recording, that has since been identified and won't be a problem in future episodes. This is also the reason why this episode took a bit longer to come out. Thank you LittleWolfBird for helping us with audio engineering and making all sound as good as possible!

Thank you also to  Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com.

You can contact us at:

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Sources and resources

Lo:

P3 Historia: Cecilia Vasa - Sveriges mesta skandalprinsessa

P3 Historia: Erik XIV - Intriger, brodermord och skandalös kärlek

P3 Historia: Karin Månsdotter - pigan som blev drottning av Sverige

“Maidens, maidenheads, and the patriarchy - Virginity norms in ASOIAF” - Lo the Lynx

 “Kungar, sex och skandaler - en studie av skvaller och journalistik” Mia-Marie Hammerlin & Lars-Eric Jönsson

“A Brief Trans History” - Lo the Lynx

“The queer stories of Fire and Blood - Lo the Lynx

P3 Historia: Axel von Fersen - kärleksaffärer, revolutioner och en vrålande lynchmobb

Virginie:

"Bâtard et fils a putain : du titre à l’insulte" - Dominique Lagorgette

Épisode 16 - Marie-Lise et les bâtards de princes • PM (passionmedievistes.fr)

Guillaume le Conquérant, le bâtard de Normandie, Paris, Belin 2014 | Gilduin Davy - Academia.edu

Bâtards et bâtardises dans l’Europe médiévale et moderne - La perception des bâtards au xve siècle - Presses universitaires de Rennes (openedition.org)

Jean de Bourgogne batard de Jean sans Peur | MAILLARD-LUYPAERT MONIQUE - Academia.edu

« Humbert le Bâtard : un seigneur itinérant au service de son prince », dans L'itinérance des seigneurs, actes du Colloque international, éd. A. Paravicini Bagliani, E. Pibiri, D. Reynard, Lausanne, 2003, p. 5-25 (CLHM, 34). | Guido Castelnuovo - Academia.edu

Éric Bousmar, Alain Marchandisse, Christophe Masson et Bertrand Schnerb éd., La Bâtardise et l’exercice du pouvoir en Europe du xiiie au début du xive siècle (openedition.org)

Le siège de Toul, en 1420, sous l'épiscopat de Henri de Ville : fragments historiques / par Charles Hequet,... | Gallica (bnf.fr)

In our first episode, we thought we'd introduce the podcast project then explore some "light and fun" real life parallels to one of ASOIAF's most well known events. 

Sources and resources:

From Lo:   https://www.so-rummet.se/artikelserier/sturarna-och-bakgrunden-till-stockholms-blodbad https://www.so-rummet.se/fakta-artiklar/kalmarunionens-upplosning-gustav-vasa-tar-makten-i-sverige# https://stockholmskallan.stockholm.se/teman/stockholmshandelser/stockholms-blodbad-1520/ https://popularhistoria.se/sveriges-historia/stockholms-blodbad https://www.so-rummet.se/aret-runt/sten-sture-den-yngres-dod (The painting is of Sten Sture den Yngre dying as his men is trying to get him to Stockholm) Virginie adds: Johannes V. Jensen's Kongens Fald (the Fall of the King), elected best Danish novel of the 20thC, that covers this period of history.   From Virginie: Tuer et Mourir au Nom de Dieu : a fantastic podcast series about the St Barthélémie season with many prominent historians, particularly Jérémie Foa -on whom I largely base my blurb Jérémie Foa's Tous ceux qui tombent book on the event Jérémie Foa's BD (comic book) on the event, and on how the movie La Reine Margot is not quite accurate

La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) movie. Not really historically accurate, but it's with Isabelle Adjani

In this episode we discuss season 2 of House of the Dragon with a special guest, Bidonica! Together we talk about art in ASOIAF/HotD compared to the history of art in our world, (trans)gender politics in HotD and our world, language and power, class politics, and more! 

And also why Italian fan artists draw Sansa with dark hair... 

You can contact us at:

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Where to find Bidonica:

https://x.com/bidonica1

https://bidonicart.tumblr.com/

https://bidonica.tumblr.com/

Art in HotD tag: https://bidonica.tumblr.com/tagged/art%20in%20hotd

Art in Westeros: https://bidonica.tumblr.com/tagged/art%20in%20westeros 

Bidonica's references:

Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa, Bompiani 1980 

Pentiment (videogame) 

Proserpine (artwork by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Ellen Terry as Lady MacBeth (artwork by John Singer Sargent)

Dance (artwork by Henri Matisse)

Erotic revelry - Athenian Red Figure column krater

Lo's references:

“Missbrukad kvinnokraft” - Ellen Key

“Fenixelden: Drottning Kristina som alkemist” by Susanna Åkerman

”A brief trans history” - Lo

“Writing migration through the body” by Emma Bond

“The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia” by Lee Colwil 

“Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings ca. 750-1050” by Jacob Bell

“Fa'afafine, fakaleitī, fakafifine — understanding the Pacific's alternative gender expressions” by Alan Weedon

“What does “Two-Spirit” Mean?” - by Geo Neptune

Virginie's references:

Leitis in Waiting (documentary)

Kumo Hina (documentary). And a shorter clip from the documentary, explaining what māhū is.

Ragman's Harbour episode 2 "Of Scandals and bastards" (references for all discussions about bastards can be found there!)

Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

Are you feeling bereft after season 2 of HotD? Not sure what to do with your free time? We are here for you! In this mini-episode, we provide tv show recommendations to fill the void that HotD might have left in your life.

Lo's recommendations:

SKAM

Young Royals

Ragnarok 

Virginie's recommendations: 

Polar Park

Icon of French Cinema

Peepoodo and the Super Fuck Friends

Unplanned bonus chat about:

Jordskott

Maria Wern

Nói albinói (Icelandic movie)

You can contact us at:

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Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

During this HotD season, we thought both our dear listeners and ourselves could use a break from just talking about the dragon show. So here is the second of three mini-episode where we recommend stuff to you all! In this episode we talk books!

Lo’s books & authors:

• Stöld (Stolen) - Ann-Helén Laestadius (Sápmi/Sweden)
• Kallocain - Karin Boye (Sweden)
• Muminböckerna (The Moomin Books) - Tove Jansson (Finland)

Virginie’s books & authors:

• La Jument Verte (the Green Mare) by Marcel Aymé (France)
• Métaphysique des Tubes (the character of rain) by Amélie Nothomb (Belgium)
• Daniel Pennac’s “Malaussène Saga” (<- unofficial name): The Scapegoat, The Fairy Gunmother, Write to Kill, Monsieur Malaussène, Passion Fruit (France)
• Svend Åge Madsen’s At Fortælle Menneskene (Narrating the People) and Tugt og Utugt i Mellemtiden (Virtue and Vice in the Middle Time) (Denmark, in Danish)

Unplanned bonus chat about:

Lo: Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking) by Astrid Lindgren (Sweden). 

Ronja Rövardotter (Ronia, the Robber’s daughter) by Astrid Lindgren (Sweden).

And other assorted books by Astrid Lindgren. 

Virginie: Astérix by Goscinny & Uderzo (France).

Tintin by Hergé (Belgium).

Ps: the “twelve things to do of Astérix” is actually called “the Twelve Tasks of Astérix” and the task where they have to get a permit (A38) is called "The Place that sends you mad"

You can contact us at:

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BlueSky

Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!