Full English in Miklagård

Degsy's mam, Brenda Higginbottom, has somehow reached the Arctic on mother's instinct — and she is NOT impressed. As Gaz and Degsy try to broadcast the story of the Swedish Vikings who went east, Brenda barges in with a fry-up and no respect whatsoever for live radio.

Tonight's history (all true, however loudly interrupted):

• The Varangian Guard — in 988, Emperor Basil II takes six thousand Viking hard-lads as his personal bodyguard.
• - Miklagård — what the Norse called Constantinople, reached by rowing east down the rivers.
• - Halfdan — a bored Varangian who carved his name in runes inside the Hagia Sophia. Still there a thousand years on.
• - Ingvar the Far-Travelled — the great expedition east that never came home, remembered on runestones across Sweden.

...with two original punk tracks: "Miklagård" and "Proper Breakfast".

Contains strong language. An AI-generated production: voices and music made with AI, history fact-checked by hand.

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