Survive the Jive Podcast

The Indo-European barrow aka kurgan aka burial mound is a funerary monument tradition that lasted about 6000 years and spread with the Proto-Indo-European Yamnaya from Eastern Europe as far as China to the East, the Atlantic to the West and Siberia to the North. This monument is not only the proof of our greatness but is also the sacred centre of the Heathen religion which links this middle Earth to the Heavens and the underworld. This is a guest podcast episode taken from Radio North Sea International on the Hearthfire Radio Network. 

Ending music Sanguine Fire by Elegiac is used with permission from the artist.

Professor Francis Young is an expert in Baltic paganism and is one of the foremost English speaking scholars of the subject. Here he explains the late medieval and early modern written sources for pagan practices in Lithuania and Latvia. We discuss the Baltic gods like Žemyna and Perkunas, as well as fairies, rituals and traditions of the Balts. 

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What did Viking hairstyles really look like? Did all Vikings have beards? Was long hair a mark of aristocracy among the Germanic tribes? In this stream I will talk about some of these misconceptions.Watch the live stream with the images I am describing on JIVE TALK YouTube channel. 

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Anglo-German relations were good in the 19th century up until the Boer war, and have been tense ever since. In this talk, historian, Tom Rowsell , explains the deep roots the two nations share in common; the Anglo-Saxons, the Celts, the Bell Beaker folk, The Single Grave Culture and the network of Bronze Age cultures in Northern Europe who traded with each other and shared mutual descent from the Corded Ware culture. 
The talk was delivered to students in Hamburg in February 2026.

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This talk explores the enduring power of shared historical identity in sustaining cultural ecosystems, from the mythic narratives of Hengest and Horsa in Anglo-Saxon England to the contested memory of Captain Cook in Britain and Australia. By tracing how ancient settlers wove history into sacred myth, and how explorers became immortalised as heroes or villains, we see the necessity of positive myth in binding communities together. Today, in the digital age, new technologies—from social media networks to global video platforms—serve as the bards and Muses of our time, enabling diasporic peoples across the Anglosphere to renew their connections and reimagine their founding stories. The talk argues that the future of cultural resilience lies in embracing these tools to create and share narratives that dignify our origins, reconcile divided traditions, and ensure that figures like Captain Cook and Hengest, and Horsa remain living symbols of identity for generations to come.

This talk was delivered in twice in Australia in October 2025. This recording was from an event held by The Scyldings. 

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