 At the beginning, the history of Norway has been influenced to an extraordinary degree by the terrain in the climate. Ten thousand BC, following the retreat of the great inland ice sheet. The earliest inhabitants migrated north into the territory which is now Norway. They traveled steadily north of our coastal areas, warmed reindeer. In 5000 and 4000 BC, the earliest agricultural settlements appeared around the Oslo Fjord. Gradually between 1500 BC and these agricultural settlements spread into the southern areas of Norway whilst the inhabitants of the northern regions continued to hunt. The Neolithic period started around 4000 BC. The migration period caused the first chieftains to take control and decades of the 8th century Norwegians started expanding across the sea to the British Isles, later Iceland, then Greenland. The Viking Age also saw the unification of the country. Christianization then took place during the 11th century and Nidaros became an archdiocese. The population then expanded quickly until about 1349, the year of the dance with the death. This is so interesting. I was just reading another part of this book. 1348 was widely spread on times of plague in medieval Europe. It says here the Middle Ages was a time of horrid epidemics that had killed a great number of people. The biggest ones was the plague epidemic in 1348, which had killed two-thirds of Europe's population. People are often then starting to think about the imminence of death and the briefness of life, the brevity. Their perception of death as the grand reaper that cites people's lives dates from that time. The perception of death, the characterization you see on the family guy, for instance, has become so stereotypical. It's permeated its way all the way into, and it's still very widely known, even especially around the holidays, is a skeletal figure with a scythe or some other thing that simply walks up and grabs the arm of the soon-to-be-fated, ill-fated individual and walks right away. And many of these pictures were actually drawn around the late, mid-to-late 13 because it was so relevant. Ideas of death are formed right now, which making us back into the 1300s as if which were then carried over into, of course, art. Out of a rich iconography of the dance of death was perhaps the most well-known in art portraits of this theme, representing both the clergy and the secular class, which, such as the Pope, Cardinal Bishop, an emperor, a king, to be the more secular side of that argument. And even a doctor, a salesman, child, dead or shown as elitins and rotting corpses, and they're often carrying musical instruments, which is interesting in itself, so a good spiral into. Of course, it was affected by that, historically impactful. Very quickly, right up until the population of three successive plagues, Bergen became the 97, himself in an especially mischievous mood as the gorgeous golden hare was enraged and he seized Loki and threatened to break every bone in his body. Loki pleaded with the thunder god to let him go down to the Swartlheim cavernous home of the dwarves. To see if those mastercrafts people could fashion a new head of hair for, if he desired, the sons of the dwarves, Nevaldi for two other marbles, Skid Baldeer. Skid Baldeer, assembled from the, which means assembled from the thin pieces of wood, from thin pieces of wood. The best of all ships, which always has a favorable wind and can be folded up and put into one's swing. With the deadliest this task, Loki was overcome by an urge to remain in the caves of the dwarves and revel in more recklessness. He approached the brothers Broke, Broker and Sindri, the metalworker and spark sprayer respectively, saying that he was sure the brothers could never forge three new creations equal to those sons, those the sons of Avali had just fashioned. In fact, he even bent his head on the lack of their ability, so Broker and Sindri, however, accepted as they were to fly, who of course was none other than Loki himself. In disguise, of course, stung Sindri's hand and when the dwarf pulled his creation out of the fire, it was a living bore with golden. This was Golan's bursty, golden bristled, who gave off light in the dark and could run better than any oars, even through water or Sindri then set up, set another piece of gold on the fire as Broker worked the bellows. The fly bit Broker on the neck, Sindri drew out a magnificent ring, drop-nir or dripper. From this ring every ninth night fall eight new golden rings of equal weight. Sindri then put the iron on the earth, on the earth and told Broker that this next working, this next working, they must be especially meticulous, for a mistake would be more costly than with the previous two projects. Loki immediately stung Broker's eyelid and the blood blocked the dwarf's eyes, preventing him from properly seeing his work. Sindri produced a hammer of unsurpassed quality, which never missed its mark and would boomerang back to its owner after being thrown, but it had one flaw that this had almost ruined the piece, which was called Majulnir, which means lightning. Nevertheless, sure of the great worth of their three treasures, Sindri and Broker made their way to Asgard, the wages that would do them. Loki made it to the halls of the gods before the dwarves and presented the marbles he had acquired. To Thor he gave Sif's new hair and the hammer up to Odin with the ring of drop-nir in the spear of Gungir. Gungnir in prayer was the happy recipient of a skid blood-nir as grateful as the gods were to receive these gifts, especially Majulnir, which they foresaw would be of inestimable help in their battles against the giants. They nevertheless concluded that Loki still owed the dwarves. When the dwarves approached Loki with knives, the cunning god pointed out that he had promised that not his neck, Broker and Sindri contented themselves with sewing Loki's mouth shut to their forge. Here we go. Kieran Cox, Mark, Kvidio. I think about you guys and the fact that you appreciate is a really, really good feeling. The goal that without you I definitely wouldn't be was the book on this episode and wish you all restful, refreshing as I always say.