{"id":741,"date":"2023-02-26T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-surprising-link-between-vikings-and-scottish-women-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-02-26T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T13:23:11","slug":"the-surprising-link-between-vikings-and-scottish-women-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-surprising-link-between-vikings-and-scottish-women-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The surprising link between Vikings and Scottish women \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3p19If5Avo8?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>It&#8217;s easy to think that the Viking world was dominated by bearded, macho men, but that assumption is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient &#8216;Old Norse Sagas&#8217; and recent archaeological discoveries suggest that women actually played equally influential roles within Viking society and politics.<\/p>\n<p>Historian Dr Janina Ramirez tells the incredible story of &#8216;Aud the Deepminded&#8217; \u2013 one of the first people to settle in Iceland in the 9th Century. Aud was a warrior, a leader, a freer of slaves&#8230; and a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Written and narrated by Dr Janina Ramirez<br \/>\nAnimated by Dominika Ozynska<br \/>\nPerformances by Leikh\u00f3purinn X, Iceland<br \/>\nExecutive produced by Howard Timberlake<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3p19If5Avo8\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to think that the Viking world was dominated by bearded, macho men, but that assumption is wrong. The ancient &#8216;Old Norse Sagas&#8217; and recent archaeological discoveries suggest that women actually played equally influential roles within Viking society and politics. Historian Dr Janina Ramirez tells the incredible story of &#8216;Aud the Deepminded&#8217; \u2013 one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}